Sentences with phrase «assumed role of the artist»

Most artists assume the role of an artist, perhaps by going to school, perhaps by having a studio, or not.

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«Although our organization gives specific consideration to work by artists of African descent, the performances of Mr. Langella and Ms. Jolie are undeniably transcendent and deserving of our recognition,» remarked AAFCA outgoing President Gil Robertson, who will assume the role of East Coast Vice President in 2009.

In this phase, the teaching artist gradually takes on less and less responsibility leading the class and assumes a secondary role to the lead teacher, assisting him or her in the interpretation of the creative curriculum implementation.

Gray Matters is the first exhibition organized by Michael Goodson since he assumed the role of Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Wex, and the survey enriches a calendar year of programming in which every artist featured in our galleries is a woman.

During the crisis, artists often assumed the roles not only of activists and advocates but also of caregivers as their friends became sick and began to die.

With the exception of the Green Gallery, all of the spaces featured here were run by artists, who paid fees towards operating costs and assumed administrative roles.

Come September, Stuart Comer, who is currently the film curator at the Tate Modern, will be assuming the new role of chief curator of media and performance art at MoMA, an institution that's seen a considerable amount of success with its recent performance art initiatives like Marina Abramovic's «The Artist Is Present,» among others.

Like Zorio, Contemporary artist Antonio Fiorentino, assumes the role of artistic creator and alchemist, converting materials into new and spontaneous forms.

The work of Pablo Bronstein is distinguished by a series of projects and public interventions in which, assuming the role of art historian, architect and choreographer, the artist reconstructs historical moments and mimics them in tableau vivants.

For the opening, the artist, assuming the role of confidant

The artist Christian Vind assumed the role of curator and «embedded...

This selection of drawings and prints traces a range of subjects, including: «Ideas Generation», where artists use the immediacy of drawing as a means to prepare and refine a concept; «Systems, Architectonics and Abstraction», in which predetermined rules, structures and methods govern the form of the image; «Expressions of Anatomy», where intimate portrayals of the figure assume a central position; «Graphic Narratives / Surreal Legacies», featuring imagery from the fantastically bizarre to the comically illustrative; and «Historia», which examines how drawing has been used to question the role of photography in the mediation and construction of historical memory.

Most of the lightbox works feature the artist himself, assuming a variety of roles in meticulously staged environments.

In The Gifted Amateur, Nov. 10th, 1962 (2007) for example, Graham assumes the role of an amateur artist, creating generic abstract works in a Modernist interior.

Widely considered to be one of the most significant cultural figures of his generation, Weiwei assumes many roles, including conceptual artist, architect, curator, designer, film - maker, musician and activist.

Just as he assumed different professional roles (in visual art, in theater, in film), Gurrola assumed the roles of different artists, from Diego Rivera to de Chirico, in a shameless, straightforward, and Mexicanized «bad painting» reproduction of their work.

She began her professional arts career in 1988, when she assumed the role of director of A Space, a pioneering artist - run centre in Toronto.

More than 3,000 of these items are now on view in a gallery of the Guggenheim Museum, but the name inscribed in tall letters outside the exhibition is not Wong's but that of the Vietnamese - born Danish artist Danh Vo, who assumes another role that contemporary artists have excelled at lately: curator.

Christy MacLear, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's chief executive, has recently been hired by Sotheby's to guide the auction house's advisory services in helping artists to manage their careers, estates, and foundations — a role typically assumed by an artist's gallery, writes Robin Pogrebin of the New York Times.

«This year, direct encounters with the artists have assumed a strategic role, to the point of becoming one of the pillars of La Biennale, whose program is of unprecedented size and commitment.

Working alone, she photographs herself in her studio, assuming the roles of stylist, makeup artist, hairdresser, model, and director.

One of the most original artists of the twentieth century, Oiticica (1937 — 1980) made art that awakens us to our bodies, our senses, our feelings about being in the world: art that challenges us to assume a more active role.

Although a portrait of Adam McEwen, an artist and friend of Fischer's, installed next to Eve in a gallery dedicated to Rodin's Gates of Hell (1880 — 1917), Adam also assumes the role of his biblical namesake in Rodin's ode to Dante's Inferno.

Rather than encourage and cultivate curators much the way an art dealer encourages and cultivates artists, he has frequently chosen to assume the role of curator himself, when he wasn't commissioning celebrities to do it.

There's the requisite Cindy Sherman «Untitled Film Still» from 1977, in which the artist assumes the role of movie actress.

This failure belongs to the curators, not the artists included in the show, and reflects a looming crisis in contemporary art where media producers assume the role of curator and in turn organize trend - oriented exhibitions centered on universal concepts with little nuance or awareness of the histories central to their curatorial work.

Lisa assumes many roles in the creation of her work, that of the artist as well as actor, filmmaker, photographer, director, historian and dramaturge.

The transience and tensions of the chemical - physical world are explored by the artist; in many respects, he assumes the role of alchemist, enabling the conversion of materials from one state into another.

Jody Filion's grade 6 class put on a mock criminal trial, with the students assuming the roles of the lawyers, jurors, witnesses, artists and court officials.