Sentences with phrase «as plaster»

«I created a wooden - plank ceiling, because I didn't think something lightweight such as plaster would look proper,» he says.

This type of policy may cover the cost of rebuilding features of an older home, such as plaster walls, with alternative materials more commonly used today.

«Arlene Shechet: All at Once,» the artist's first museum survey, opening June 10th at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, shows how she has cycled through such materials as plaster, cast paper, ceramics, and porcelain over the past 20 years to make works that retain a sense of fluidity even in their hardened forms.

For her entire career, Shechet has embraced an experimental approach to sculpture, finding form in the chance processes that occur as mutable materials — such as plaster, ceramic, paper pulp and glass — become solid.

Using industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast the surfaces and volume of everyday objects and architectural space, she creates evocative sculptures that range from the intimate to the monumental.

After this he applied himself intensively to Informal painting, developing, by the middle of the 50s, his first dynamic structures, which he transcribed into painting and drawing as well as plaster and metal reliefs.

While the practice of Los Angeles based artist Anthony Pearson is rooted in photography, his practice expands to include media such as plaster, bronze, and clay.

Known for her signature casting technique, Whiteread's work ranges in scale from the modest to the monumental in a variety of materials such as plaster, resin, rubber, concrete, metal and paper.

But the work in Churn Dash leaves the traditional nine - block piecework behind, substituting it for more uncommon elements such as plaster, cardboard, plastic juice bottles, and glass science - lab equipment.

This is achieved through various processes, such as a plaster backing on paper, structural armatures and custom frames that serve as three - dimensional translations of the shifting planes visible in the work.

The London - based artist's work sees her focusing primarily on sculpture formed of casts, using industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to sculpt everyday objects and spaces.

Mixed and adhesive materials such as plaster, fiberglass and resin merge to make a composite where each material contributes specific visual properties and refer to bodily fluids.

The architectural elements of the house are fundamental to her practice, and over the last two decades, she has cast the spaces in and around doors, floorboards, rooms and entire buildings in industrial materials such as plaster and concrete.

Junior takes the readymade as his starting point but brings it into performative play, often with paint or liquid such as plaster or spray paint.

He uses diverse materials such as plaster, wax, photographs, antlers, velvet and ceramics.

She works with natural materials including fired and unfired clay, wood and ink, as well as man - made materials such as plaster, concrete, steel or cloth.

Situated at this intersection between of minimalism and conceptualism, the artist Rachel Whiteread is best known for her use of industrial materials such as plaster, rubber, and resin in the casting process.

Over the years, she has used materials as diverse as plaster, acrylic, cast paper, porcelain, wood and crystal.

22/9/2017 -21 / 1/2018 Rachel Whiteread One of Britain's leading contemporary artists, Rachel Whiteread uses industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space.

For the first time Hauser & Wirth presents 2D work of Thomas Houseago, the British born artist who is renowned for his raw, massive, figurative sculptures made of so called lo - fi materials such as plaster and plywood.

Gormley meditates as the plaster sets around him, and the finished works convey this sense of inner quietude.

They appeal to Jasper Johns, the American artist, whose one real subject is his studio but who appears in his work only as plaster casts and shadows.

In Golden Arches, the artist has intentionally avoided the use of plastic and other contemporary mass - produced industrial goods, opting instead for such traditional sculpting materials as plaster, bronze and gold.

From 1963 to 1965, Boetti began to create works out of then unusual materials such as plaster, masonite, plexiglass, light fixtures and other industrial materials.

Known for her signature casting technique, Whiteread's work ranges in scale from the monumental to the intimate in a variety of materials such as plaster, resin, rubber, concrete, metal and paper.

His later works, such as plaster pianos, blue Murano glass musical instruments and bronze and ceramic turtles, achieve a perfect equilibrium between conceptual conviction and aesthetic concerns, and also reflect a real pleasure of making.

This type of policy may cover the cost of rebuilding features of an older home, such as plaster walls, with alternative materials more commonly used today.

But, pills really only act as a plaster (I am not a doctor, though, and do not suggest that you stop taking them if you are on them).

But with standard 2D images as a guide, doctors now can build a detailed 3D model of the heart from various materials, such as plaster or ceramic, to reveal even the most complicated structural abnormalities.

Expected economic growth thus replaced existing political solidarity as the plaster to hold together the continent.

The sculptures had been created by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter as plaster models for two even larger bulls that ornamented the livestock exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

but I think I would get the fake look like wood beams, because it still ended up costing just as much as plastering or more..

Not exact matches

That Ellison's $ 70 - million mansion in Woodside, Calif., is modelled after a medieval shogun compound, and his office is plastered with Japanese art, certainly compounds his image as a wannabe Mongol warlord.

As an underwear - clad brass band and two dozen strippers march through the office, the camera lingers on the woman a beat or two longer than is comfortable — a few loose wisps of hair emerging from her patchy scalp, a fake smile plastered across her face as she tries to prove she's a good sporAs an underwear - clad brass band and two dozen strippers march through the office, the camera lingers on the woman a beat or two longer than is comfortable — a few loose wisps of hair emerging from her patchy scalp, a fake smile plastered across her face as she tries to prove she's a good sporas she tries to prove she's a good sport.

A senior EU source described the plan to BI as «ambitious» and a «sticking plaster for the Tory party.»

More than 80 corporate sponsors — such as the St. Paul Cos., Lamperts (a local lumber company), and St. Paul Pioneer Press — not only plaster the fence with signs bearing their names but also pump up group sales.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

The Ten Commandments were plastered as a publicity stunt for the movie the Ten Commandments by the P. T. Barnum of Hollywood, Cecil B. Demile.

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

As a pastor's wife, I did my best to plaster on my happy face.

Designs that focused on other franchise favorites, as well as some that featured the whole cast of assorted X-Men, were plastered on billboards and buses, as well.

Akira i know this will come as a shock to you; however, all the «dinosaurs» you see in «natural history» museums are cast from plaster and that's a fact.

WHY are you plastering Rush Limbaugh as headline news?

The basic idea of straw bale building is this: Instead of constructing houses from traditional materials, an efficient and environmentally friendly method can be employed in which straw bales finished with plaster and supported with timber or rebar frames serve as the walls of the house.

RVs plastered with the fateful date crisscrossed the country as believers wearing T - shirt announcements and waving fliers sounded the alarm.

I could claim I was a walrus yesterday and you'd have to trust my claim just as much based on the evidence you've shown so far week after week of plastering this BS on these boards.

A quinoa poultice or plaster was traditionally thought to heal bones, and Andean families have traditionally used the saponin - filled wash water from quinoa as a shampoo.

and way more fun than a mustard plaster, as old fashioned remedies go.

Using a cake spatula, make the icing as even and smooth as possible (it's not that different from plastering).

Capsaicin patches, like mustard plasters, have been around for a while, but now they are making a comeback as TheraPatch Penetrating Pain Relief Patches.