Sentences with phrase «building monumental works»

Nancy Rubins, who earned an MFA in art from UC Davis in 1976, has been building monumental works for over 25 years.

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The discovery is important for reasons beyond the city's age — it throws into question many assumptions on which a great deal of archaeological work is based, because the inhabitants of Caral built a social and political structure, not to mention monumental architecture, without the trappings of writing, metallurgy, or ceramics.

will feature around 80 works, including many of Marshall's large - scale narrative paintings, which should feel monumental within the concrete - heavy Marcel Breuer building.

Best known for his monumental cuts, holes, apertures, and excisions to the facades of derelict homes and historic buildings in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, and abroad, Gordon Matta - Clark's work conveys a potent critique of architecture's role vis - à - vis the capitalist system.

In his new works, Matthew Woodward continues his exploration of drawing and its boundaries, pushing his work further into ideas central to architecture and the built - environment at large: transparency, differentiation and repeatability, the artificial and the monumental; each called to attention through a material dexterity that is as illuminating in Woodward's work as it is compromised.

Following her monumental installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery, Building 5, in 2007 — which marked her first indoor projection in the U.S. — Holzer returns with a campus - wide series of work that will include a large - scale outdoor projection on the River Street side of the factory's complex titled For North Adams, 21 of her celebrated carved stone benches located throughout MASS MoCA's sprawling campus, an installation of her Inflammatory Essays posters, and rotating exhibitions of her work spanning the breadth of her career.

Working on site they will make a monumental installation from paper and cardboard, reshaping the materials into building blocks with the help of giant handmade tools.

The work is in direct dialog with the surrounding monumental industrial buildings of the former coal mine Zeche Zollverein.

Serves as a member of the Pennell Committee at the Library of Congress until 1993, replacing Jim Dine; works first with Donald Saff and then with Yvonne Jacquette to select prints for the Library of Congress Pennell Print Collection; is guest teacher at Cornell University, SUNY Purchase, and University of Southern California, Los Angeles; sings in and designs a set based on Goya's prisoner figures for the «El Salvador» oratorio concert by the Back Bay Chorale under the direction of conductor Larry Hill, which takes place at Harvard's Sanders Theater on 18 May; exhibition Wakeby Day / Wakeby Night: Monumental Monotypes by Michael Mazur opens 11 March at the Hayden Gallery, MIT (colorplate 18), in conjunction with installation of Wakeby monotypes at the 500 Memorial Drive dormitory building.

Smithson, meanwhile, created what is arguably the best known work of land art in the world with his monumental Spiral Jetty (1970), a rock formation built into northern Utah's Great Salt Lake.

In 2013, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA, exhibited the touring solo exhibition, Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, presented the artist with the prestigious Charles Wollaston Award for his work, TSIATSIA — searching for connection, 2013, which covered the entire facade of the RA building.

Please note, two additional works are on view outside of the Ballroom Gallery: Adrián Villar Rojas's Two Suns (II)(2015), a monumental replica of Michelangelo's David, can be viewed in the backstage of the ground floor theater, and Erika Verzutti's new work, Centipede (2017), hangs on the building's north wall, beside the parking lot.

Presented as a series of room - size installations — site - specific wall paintings, painted environments, monumental stacked canvases, and anthropomorphic painting «machines» — Ain't Painting a Pain presents major works never before seen in the United States, including a sculpture that was conceived early in his career but never built and a major new work to be completed in 2012.

The murals, sandblasted directly onto the concrete walls of the building by the Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, are the first in a series of monumental works in concrete realized by Picasso, and mark the beginning of a working relationship that would continue for the rest of Picasso's life.

Working in the tradition of David Smith and Alexander Calder, Abstract sculptor Mark di Suvero builds colorful and monumental outdoor sculptures.

Known for his massive installations built from industrial materials that take the menace implicit in Minimalism and throttle it into overdrive, the Polish Mirosław Bałka is well known on the European museum and biennial circuit — his 2009 work in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, which resembled a monumental cattle car (with a ramp leading visitors into its pitch - black interior), stunned audiences — but he has only shown rarely in New York.

Sonic Acts: Vertical Cinema February 20 — 23, 2014 During four consecutive days, ten large - scale commissioned film works by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers and audiovisual artists will be presented on 35 mm celluloid and projected vertically with a custom - built projector in the monumental staircase of the Stedelijk.

The show encapsulates the artist's experimental and buoyant practice, renowned for her monumental work, in which she builds large, arresting sculptures through rigging multiple clusters of «junk» objects together with tensile cables.

In January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art the design concept for his most monumental work, a 2,715 - square - foot stone building with luminous colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture, and fourteen black and white marble panels.

The works themselves index architectural barriers between outside and inside — a monumental new series of aluminum - cast windows, a large - scale brick - wall painting and a new series of concrete sculptures cast from the corners of urban buildings — collectively comprising the space of an inner world.

After a second breakfast at Marfa Burrito and an espresso at Frama, the morning and afternoon were dedicated to exploring the Chinati Foundation (Judd's 100 aluminum boxes and Chamberlain's 22 monumental sculptures in the former Marfa Wool and Mohair building are an absolute must), and a visit to Dennis at 2d Marfa, where a slew of minimalist work by Gloria Graham and Susan York was on view.

The work extends Locke's remarkable use of cardboard for the building of extraordinary artworks, such as the monumental sculpture Hemmed in Two (2002) recently acquired by Pérez Art Museum Miami.

The final exhibition in the series travels back to Rodin's own era with work by Klimt, an artist Rodin admired so much that when he first saw the painter's monumental Beethoven Frieze (1901) in the Secession Building in Vienna, he clasped the artist's hand and told him, «What an artist you are!

The museum's design is inspired by the work of Still and by its monumental context: the site is located at the intersection of prairie and mountains, within an urban district of major cultural buildings, vacant lots, historic housing, and new development.

From 1958 to 1969, he worked on three major commissions: monumental canvases for the Four Seasons Restaurant and Seagram Building, both in New York; murals for the Holyoke Center, Harvard University; and canvases for the chapel at the Institute of Religion and Human Development, Houston, known worldwide as «The Rothko Chapel.»

Most recently in 2014, Davenport's monumental work «Colourcade: HANA 2014» was commissioned and installed in HANA Building, Singapore.

A monumental piece formed by thousands of tiny tiles sliced from a thick skin of acrylic paint, the work's surface involved more building than painting.

Kelsey Brookes spent a large portion of the year working on Golden Ratio, a monumental 19» painting commissioned for One Woodward building in downtown Detroit.

For ABTJ, he will transform a downtown building into a monumental work of minimalist sculpture.

For the monumental work The City Bettina Pousttchi covered the façade of Wolfsburg Palace with a photomontage of skyscrapers, which were each, at the time of their completion, the highest buildings in the world.

His monumental commissioned works may be seen at One World Trade Center, The Barclays Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAM Fisher Building.

Denver, Colo. — Spurred by the enthusiastic response of the Denver community, and building on its commitment to expand its collection with new works, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will acquire six site - specific installations from its monumental exhibition Embrace!.

MARK BRADFORD, 2009 Mark Bradford's But You Better Not Get Old from 2003 is a monumental work of collaged permanent - wave end paper, «materials with a built - in history,» in the words of the artist, aggregated and distressed to form the ethereal yet tactile surface that has become the artist's unique signature.

This studio is a small scale reconstruction of the original Plastic Studio - a huge glazed structure that Moore built to allow him to enlarge working models to monumental scale before they were transported to the foundry.

My trip began with a prolonged visit to his immense studio in St. Paul, where he had built a monumental structure which housed interiors made for his video works.

These works are the inspiration for Kelly's monumental sculpture installed on the façade of the building.