The solo exhibition, the artist's second with the gallery, «explores the relationship
between image construction and the physicality of sound,» according to an announcement.
Not exact matches
This initiative is an excellent opportunity to strengthen the relationship
between the industry and the wider community, and will allow sites to show their efforts towards improving the
image of
construction.
In Persona Non Granted, Rawls draws parallels
between the laborious
construction of stop - motion
images and the choreographic work of animating bodies by juxtaposing video documentation of the filmmaking process with completed animation sequences of his choreography.
Over and over again in the catalog, we read about Ligon's love for painting — de Kooning's Pirate (Untitled II)(1981) is a favorite, apparently — and how he, um, «opened up the semantic rules of identity and linguistic
constructions between object - text and
image - sign relations through the use of photography and text based on the appropriation of language, sign, text, and speech as material for his painting practice.»
In works by Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman, for example, deconstructed and appropriated
images displayed the disparity
between individual agency and expectations that stemmed from the social
construction of femininity.
Coming from the fragmentized remembrance of family history, the
images emphasize the gap
between memory and the
construction of today's reality and the self.
Diamond's work explores photography's role in the
construction of personal myth and the fabrication of memory, along with the disparity
between image and reality.
The paintings and
constructions are built on visual and symbolic associations, and the obscuring, deconstructing, and preserving of
images in wax helps me to address a complex and shifting relationship
between man, his biological roots, and the shaping of our natural environment».
The work on view will highlight the shifting of paradigms necessary to find beauty within imperfect gestures, the parallels
between systemic ideas of perfection and modes of ideal
image construction, and how the works on view engage with these possibilities.
Working with found printed
images from diverse sources, in each collage Wheaton creates a spatial
construction that exists
between preternatural landscape and almost tactile abstraction; melding to transcend the
images» original history and divulge a new and nuanced visual melody.
The exhibition investigates the tensions and overlaps contained within these new approaches:
between the re-contextualisation of existing
images and the pictorial
construction of new ones.
She engages in an active sculptural dispute
between whether to humanly embrace or to rebelliously challenge materials and form, while creating
images that suggest life - like hybrids of form that remind us of manmade
construction juxtaposed alongside raw elements of nature.
The artist thus creates an exhibition situation, which — depending on the position and perspective of the viewer — opens new contexts and points of reference
between the altogether seven works on view: through overlapping and juxtaposition, fragmented
image details of architectural
constructions are transformed into new — rational and irrational — visual connections and associations.
The tension sustained
between minimalist abstraction and
image - based narratives deriving from her use of found materials gives rise to a dynamic that posits the historical
constructions of the «New Negro» — a central development of the Harlem Renaissance — with concurrent developments in modernist abstraction.
The artist has explored this conceptual discourse through multiple series of work, deftly riding the line
between the
construction of totally manufactured
images that bear the aesthetic of seemingly straightforward photographic
images and actual photographs that buzz with vibrant palettes almost too fantastic to be considered plausible.
Executed in a number of stages
between 1993 and 1998, the bequest encompassed works from all periods of Mapplethorpe's work, from his early collages, Polaroids, and mixed - media
constructions to his iconic
images of male and female nudes, flowers, and statues.