In these, the surface of the artwork is disturbed by the abrupt and gradual transitions
between modes of representation.
Recent works have been situated
between modes of representation, the vernacular, specific geographic and historical contexts and the intersection between the personal and the political.
Not exact matches
Wiley's larger - than - life figures disturb and interrupt tropes
of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries
between traditional and contemporary
modes of representation and the critical portrayal
of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view
of black and brown young men.
His works question any assumed differences
between abstraction and
representation,
between modes of presentation... Welling's photographs are objects in themselves, beautiful compositions that also gloss and comprise a history
of photographic practices.
In his multifaceted body
of work that investigates prevailing
modes of representation in contemporary art, Brandon Lattu questions the dynamics
between the work and the audience.
No subject was safe from their intuitive and enigmatic lens, from the myth
of the artist, the role
of mass media, and the relationship
between the body and identity, to questions
of gender and sexual
representation, and perhaps most famously, the HIV / AIDS activism
of the 1980's, a
mode of critique that the group were pioneers
of during an era
of intense repression and governmental silence.
In his later work he continued to shift
between modes of abstraction and
representation.
Timofeev working
between multiple spaces, countries, languages and disciplines, Timofeev has an interest in
modes of representation and systems
of order and control.
There is also Fischli & Weiss» Sichtbare Welt (1987 - 2000), a series
of photographs taken by the artists all over the world, critically evoking a parallel
between systems
of valuation and
modes of representation.
The machine sprays the phrase on an abstract ground, creating a tension
between overt and abstract
modes of representation.
Often blurring the boundaries
between traditional and modern
modes of representation, he emphasizes the established portrayal
of masculinity and physicality connected to the
representation of black young men.
Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively
between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent
modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.
This complicit relationship
between literary and visual
modes of representation is central to Parsonage's practice; both words and images have the power to elicit evocative imagery and tap into complex emotional states.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who left Nigeria aged 16 to move to the US, traces the seams
of this kind
of cultural syncretism, through large - scale, mixed - media works on paper that patchwork different
modes and techniques
of representation to forge a continuity
between her experiences in both countries.