Sentences with phrase «at quotidian objects»

This group exhibition, organized by Walead Beshty, aims to uncover the fundamental systems that are invisible in everyday life, using works by artists like Franz West, Liam Gillick, Claire Fontaine, and Dan Flavin to question how one looks at quotidian objects and images.

Not exact matches

In the exhibition, artists Jeff Colson, Renee Lotenero, Kristen Morgin, Joel Otterson, Rebecca Ripple, Aili Schmeltz, and Shirley Tse take quotidian and overlooked objects outside of their usual settings and modify, disassemble, and / or reassemble them, catapulting the objects into other dimensions, ones that are, at times, strange, comical, and unnerving.

The paintings teach a straightforward but profound lesson: as in Roman cuisine, where the simplicity of means is a way to highlight the extraordinary quality of well - sourced ingredients, Morandi's poetic minimalism shows that the act of looking at even quotidian objects and spaces can be an extraordinarily generous experience.

Hyperbolic color planes and tactile quotidian objects are used as props to enhance color interaction and hint at the mundane within an overblown and histrionic constructed composition.

This exhibition at James Cohan Gallery seeks to develop these earlier ideas around what I termed «vernacular» or «everyday» abstraction: that is artistic practices that actively privilege and operate in the grey area between an essentially non-representational image / object and the use of quotidian materials and processes.

By decontextualizing these quotidian objects from their traditional function, Munson creates a new way of looking at them, infusing them with an air of mystery and unfamiliarity.