Sentences with phrase «by gesturing toward»

Like her earlier large paintings these small paintings evoke a sense of impending doom, by suggesting that there is more outside the picture - like a cliff hanger in a movie trailer that creates suspense by gesturing toward what is yet to come.

If these alternatives seem too stark, one can hedge one's bets: gain what reward this life has to offer, but do so by gesturing toward the next.

Not exact matches

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

After removing herself from her car, Patrick expressed her displeasure by walking toward the racing surface and gesturing toward Kahne as he drove by under caution.

BETHESDA, Md. — Following a wayward approach shot on the 12th hole during Saturday's third round at the AT&T National, D.H. Lee was caught by television cameras gesturing with his middle finger in an apparent expression toward the nearby gallery.

He gestures toward a broad expanse of office wall, decorated with framed covers of medical journals that have given top billing to results published by the institute's research teams.

I was struck by this thoughtful gesture of the client's toward its models for the evening.

Harkins gestures toward cross-stitches made by Rebecca and Josh Greco from Aurora, Illinois.

A correct answer prompts Rider to make a squirting gesture toward the child with the exclamation «FAN -» followed by a wiping gesture «TASTIC,» and the kid just beams.

If that scene happened in GTA, or was written by Rockstar, the cop would have possibly tried to trick the woman into answering, made a witty remark, pushed a phone toward her and made gestures, had a personality of a realistic cop or at least a realistic human being.

In a show that gestures toward several 20th century art movements — though there happens to be a suspicious dearth of photography — I'm most looking forward to works by postwar feminists like Carolee Schneemann, Dara Birnbaum, and Nancy Spero, whose imaginations repudiate narrow definitions of the body, sexuality, and violence, and seem, to me, utterly sound.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

Instead, the physical form of the original German book makers is transcoded by another sculptural production, substituting the original embedded information for another, one that also gestures toward the lost carving (embodied information) of the destroyed statues.

His paintings present information whose specificity may be obscured by the erudition of Jensen's beliefs and interests, but nonetheless gestures toward an alternate mode of painting and history.

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is currently showing Hewitt's work, in which the artist turns pop culture on its head by making juxtapositions like magazine spreads and family photoalbums, gesturing toward some space between the zeitgeist and collective memory.

The back space also includes a number of drawings by both artists, all small gestures toward presenting an accessible model of art ownership founded on communal support.

t points of tension within our world and the gestures offered by artists to urge us toward change.

De / Construction is an exhibition of video, photography, drawings and sculpture by New York - based artist Anthony Goicolea.The artist's explorations are deliberate and honest gestures toward constructing, deconstructing, destroying, recovering, assembling, and disassembling his own identity.

Mira Dancy's gorgeous, joyful mural of a reclining female nude, for instance, takes off across from the ecstasy of feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson's Woman Rising (1973), a black - and - white photograph in which a woman stands in an open desert, her arms stretched out toward the sky in a gesture of empowerment and freedom that is reinforced by a V - shaped line of contrails in the sky.

Still, Zuckerberg did say that he wasn't flat - out opposed to regulation, and he did gesture toward one existing bill in his interview with Wired on Wednesday, the Honest Ads Act, which would require online political ads to follow the same disclosure rules that political ads on radio and television do by including information in the ad about who paid for it; Zuckerberg also said that he doesn't expect the bill to pass.