Explore the possibilities of how functional objects can
themselves become armatures for drawings.
Much of the experimental work I was doing in those early days
became the armature for future work.
The MCA — a public institution and, by extension, a type of public space —
becomes the armature for the artist's investigation.
Not exact matches
A successful
armature becomes virtually invisible to anyone staring up and through the monumental skeleton.
However, it was not meant to be and
Armature Studios had to end up shutting down the rumor before it
became too widespread.
Architecture
becomes another extension of the body for Leigh; often cages constructed of steel that
become either the
armature for another layer of cover, or are left bare.
In three works from 2017, the spare application of paper emphasizes negative space within the wire
armatures; air
becomes a material on equal footing with paper and wire, the latter seeming to float like garments on invisible bodies.
They include a small painting simply titled «# 1» (2000), in which we see a phallic
armature moving from gray into light blue; another titled «# 2» (1995), in which a blue crescent bends around to
become titanium white; a third, «# 4» (2000 — 1), in which a rising, two - pronged black organic shape ends in a touch of green and ultramarine at either end; and finally «# 5» (1991), in which a red finger - like form passes from black to crimson red.
In the exhibition space the hooks
become a temporary
armature for some of my own personal accumulations, a group of sewing scissors inherited from my grandmother, a collection of tea bags that turn the act of consumption into an act of production.
A rusted hulk of steel, the left over
armature of a foundry casting, or tourist's Brazilian twisty beach hat, can
become a sculpture with profound grace and impact.»
The location of this value
becomes suspended between the
armature and the surface, between canvas and cradle, between oil painting and splintery 2x4.»
Watteau's work
becomes Hogg's strong
armature, and one she takes great liberties in revising, overturning the near invisibility of his surface labour to foreground a markmaking that is regularly and deliberately sustained across the full surface of all her works.
Lined up along a wall are seven «slut - sticks», wooden
armatures bound with stretched fabric and leather,
becoming abstract figures in stages between dress and undress.