Sentences with phrase «become practicing artists»

The MFA Photography program prepares students to become practicing artists and scholars who redefine the creative role of photography within contemporary culture.

While in high school, his family moved to Sherman, TX, where, in the summer of 2003, he made his first sculpture in the backyard of his parents» house — deciding instantly to become a practicing artist.

Despite her early interest, however, Asawa's path to becoming a practicing artist was circuitous.

I became a practicing artist because it was my only option.

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Yet if they are to understand the arts significantly, they too must enter so fully into the works they study, by becoming familiar with the possibilities and limitations of the materials used and with the processes of transforming them, that they pass beyond passive receptivity to the practice of virtual recreation, through imaginative participation in the artist's constructive activity.

In New York, a number of seemingly anonymous locations — the lawyer's office, the doctor's, the dentist's — have become places to see the kind of art that you might only hope to view in a gallery or a museum, thanks to medical professionals» practice of trading treatment with artists.

And the real beauty of this notion is that the culture, craft and life that 22 ° N talks about is not limited to practicing artists but open to anyone interested in becoming involved.

Artist Carol Marine wisely proposes that art can be made in tiny increments and become a daily practice, much akin to ritual or prayer.

As a former practicing attorney and current business strategist, Lisa is passionate about helping creative artists become savvy entrepreneurs.

What was always a private practice of creating work on a multitude of surfaces, including show invitations, sketchbooks, and ceramics, has recently become an important part of the artist's public exhibitions.

The format sets a common denominator among varied artistic practices; these parameters are an exciting challenge for artists, and become a catalyst for conversation and gathering among diverse audiences.

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.

The encounter between these artists from distinct practices and generations becomes a means of unearthing unknown affinities and historical entwinements.

Many artists have taken a «provisional» stance, while others are producing highly finished work that so blurs the line between two and three - dimensional practice that categories of media such as painting and sculpture become all but useless.

As the contemporary practice of painting continues to expand exponentially, with many artists becoming less concerned with the physical medium of paint itself, Cain's practice — a combination of control, happenstance, and environmental information — is made unique through its reliance on space and the structural conditions of the locations in which her work is exhibited.

During the 1940s and 50s, New York became the centre for abstract art, with a group of artists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning practicing action painting.

Since then, it has become common practice for artists, or their estates, to license the usage of imagery for the creation of textiles, ornaments, jewelry, or other works of decorative art.

Recent projects such as Crash Pad for the 8th Berlin Biennial, Every End is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens and Fin de Siècle at Swiss Institute will be used to highlight aspects from Angelidakis's exhibition practice where the artist becomes curator, the exhibition becomes a medium and the exhibition device an exhibited object.

Eleanor Heartney's 2007 book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art has also become an indispensable publication for any scholar or artist trying to achieve a well - balanced view of culture and art practice since 1970.

Ten years later, paying artists for their labor is finally becoming standard practice, but at the museum level how much to pay and who gets to determine it are contentious issues.

With clear references to methods and practices of craftsmanship and artisanship that the artist himself experienced and learnt during the time he spent as a member of the United States Peace Corps in Sierra Leone between 1963 and 1965, manual labor and natural unprocessed materials became part of his immediate interests from a very early stage.

There is a particular thrill in catching an artist in one of those rare moments when they are radically altering the premise of their own work and walking out on a limb, before the direction's meanings and effects have become codified within their own practice.

After moving to Milan in 1954, Pomodoro continued to develop his practice and became acquainted with several artists including Alberto Giacometti, and later Louise Nevelson and David Smith.

Buentello said that with the award, she plans «to become a full time artist and focus on my studio practice for the next year, which is something I haven't been able to fully focus on since taking on teaching high school.

While Juliana Huxtable's genre - and gender - defying practice moves fluidly between performance, poetry, pop music, and photography; it's no wonder that the artist has become a figurehead for a millennial, internet - savvy generation that celebrates gender and identity nonconformism.

For several Gallery artists, in particular Jason Wallis - Johnson and Chris Kenny, the visual language of maps and map - making has become an integral part of their practice.

But it has also become a more common part of any contemporary artists» practice as illustrated by the emergence of the new online Study Center for Group Work under the administration of artist, activist, and educator Caroline Woolard.

Today, when you eat Thai curry (Rirkrit Tiravanija) or walk through a garden of black flowers (Jenny Holzer), you understand that the identity of artists has become inseparable from questioning their practice; ontological Conceptualism has become so totally invasive that it is no longer possible to speak about it in terms of influence.

Like the other members of the group, Bush pursued abstraction as best he could, «abstracting» from nature in a manner derived from the illustrations becoming available in international magazines as well as from his practice as a commercial artist.

The materiality of each piece is an essential element of the artist's practice, which becomes evident upon inspection of her painting's multifaceted surfaces.

In a departure from her 2012 — 13 show at Lehmann Maupin in New York, for which the artist projected the film in a side gallery removed from the «room within a gallery» installation that has become a recurring feature of her practice, here Thomas embeds the (now looped) film within a similarly immersive 1970s - era domestic simulacrum.

Similar to Alfred Le Petit's and Jules Eugène Lenepveu's caricatures of Émile Zola where the writer defecates while writing texts, the point where scatology becomes political is signified through the creation of a parallel relationship made between political stances and the artist's practice.

This New York tour proved to become a transformative experience for Louis in terms of his practice and his exposure to the pouring / staining techniques of Frankenthaler opened up a realm of new possibilities for the artist.

Although these snippets are legible at very close range, Rauschenberg did not choose them for their wording or imagery, as would become the artist's practice in his collage and assemblage works of the mid-1950s.

To separate these aspects of my practice into individual boxes would be taking a step back, similar to an artist neglecting to make work about a major part of their life, eventually that becomes unsustainable and the flood gates are opened.

Broodthaers has become a reference for legions of young artists working within a self - reflexive practice, trying to update an approach to institutional critique without falling prey to an overly academic outlook.

«Helping other artists make incredible work became more satisfying than each of us chasing down our own individual practice,» the founders explain.

In recent years, print - making has become an increasingly important part of Barclay's practice with the artist viewing a direct correlation between the print process and the intuitive way in which she makes sculpture.

He was a relatively private artist and did not speak much about his practice, although he did become friends with fellow Washington, D.C. based artist Kenneth Noland in the early 1950s.

The pre - and post-War architectural landscape was to become an important subject within the artist's photo - painting practice, documented extensively through photographs in his personal compendium «Atlas» and expanded into a lengthy meditation on buildings, infrastructures and townscapes in the Stadtbilder series.

While Förg's multidisciplinary approach has become predominant today in contemporary artists» practices, it was uncommonly eclectic and provocative in his time.

Rooted in activism, Mitchell's work has become extremely influential to a new generation of artists who merge their artistic practice with social justice.

Taking this shift and the artist's penchant for experimentation across media as a point of departure, Winslow Homer and the Camera questions how new visual technology impacted the artist's production and engagement with subjects, and unveils how photography became increasingly a part of Homer's visual investigation and broader creative practice.

At the same time, the arena of contemporary art, with its myriad of artists and artistic practices from all across the globe, has become a more complex terrain to navigate.

Initially a nomadic enterprise, its projects occupied disparate spaces across the urban landscape of Mexico City, and became the core of the first generation of its artists» practice.

«With their raw, immediate, and gritty street and studio practices, these post-punk, key artists of the Mission School would soon become international icons for new generations of art students and makers.»

The Parrish selects established artists with ties to the East End to become jurors to a pool of online applicants where the only caveats are living in the «119» zip code and actively working in a professional artist practice.

On the occasion of her solo exhibition Lorraine O'Grady: Where Margins Become Centers at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the artist discusses her rich and critically engaged practice.

And while most of the artists associated with the movement did in fact work in NY, several prominent artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Edward Dunmore, Hassel Smith, Frank Lobdell, and Clyfford Still established their artistic and academic practices in the San Francisco Bay Area and subsequently became known as the Bay Area Abstract Expressionists.

By investigating the ways in which reality can become dissociated from recognizable forms and ordinary knowledge, the exhibition considers the manual labor, or craft, within an artist's practice and its potential to modify, shape, overturn, and radically change an existing object, shape or event (historical or current) in the process.