Sentences with phrase «central subjects of his work»

He gained entry to the community when two of its residents, Kevin and Eirn (who would later become central subjects of his work), took him to a local hangout spot, opening his eyes «to a world of the not - quite adults, struggling — publicly and privately — through the last moments of their childhood.»

Through this effect, a collection of historical facts and the ways in which they have been interpreted become the central subjects of the works.

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The subject is unavoidable, for Robert Thomas is central to everything in Derrick's life, from his troubled past to his fascination with airplanes, from his charity work to his obsession with the assassination of a president.

He worked for several Central New York companies, including COR Development Co., another possible subject of the federal probe.

Mr. Hikind might start by taking an interest in working toward the restoration of the public school system and the lack of adherence to the NYS mandates in teaching subjects such as math and science in many of the private schools in the East Ramapo Central School District.

The meeting continued with presentations, workshops, and working meetings on human rights issues central to the mission of the Coalition, including: «Human Rights and Human Subjects: Protection Mechanisms,» «She Speaks Science, He Speaks Human Rights: Bridging the Divide,» and «Getting the Word Out: Designing a Human Rights Track for Your Annual Meeting.»

Although many of the plot devices are similar in Scorsese's film and the Hong Kong «original,» this is Scorsese's film all the way because of his understanding of the central subject of so much of his work: guilt.

Filmmaker Toby Amies infuses his work with the cheeky personality of the central subject,...

We know how this story of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis will turn out, so screenwriter Chris Terrio (working from the book The Master of Disguise by the film's central subject Antonio J. Mendez and an article by Joshuah Bearman) and director Ben Affleck instead build the film's tension out of a blow - by - blow account of the details of a covert operation happening alongside the larger and more publicly known captivity of over 50 personnel from the American Embassy in Tehran.

One of the central features of By All Means is a set of convenings which serve two purposes: 1) to bring together teams from the six or seven cities in which we'll be establishing learning labs for our design work; 2) to bring together a national audience of thought leaders to consider some controversial subjects relating to the future of public education and that system's work with economically disadvantaged students.

Central to the work of every teacher and subject is a continuous cycle of planning, teaching, assessment and evaluation that takes account of the wide range of abilities, aptitudes and interests of the students.

The focus on the improvement of teachers» mathematics content knowledge guides his work and also resulted in A Qualitative Case Study of the Subject Matter Knowledge of Central Texas Middle School Mathematics Teachers, his doctoral dissertation completed in 2004.

I followed this one up with the post on «The benefits of a series» and at the end of it all I have cemented a loose concept into a formal plan that will give me a range of five different subjects to work on, as well as use drawings and paintings from each of these «portfolios» to contribute to a central series theme.

Tino Sehgal creates works that are constructed situations which question the traditional subject - object relationship of visual art, and in which the interaction between the visitor and the work takes a central position.

Although Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 — 1986) has long been celebrated as a central figure in twentieth - century art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained overlooked by critics and the public in favor of her representational subjects.

His works of the 1990s continued to express the painful subjects of racism, sexism, and oppression, but they did so in dynamic, animated compositions featuring eye - catching «splashy surfaces,» delivering the «strong «one - two punch»» that Colescott saw as central to his overall aesthetic.

The dehumanizing effect of corporate advertisement is central to the show, providing the works with both subject matter and an expressive vocabulary.

Unlike his monumental film installations, this retrospective overview rather explores the idea of a private video archive showing central subjects and formal strategies of Gordon's works.

The central focus of his work concerns timelessness and the intangible x-factor of his chosen subjects, recapturing this essence in his own way.

The human body maintained a central subject in the work of many Post Minimalist artists.

For co-curator Chris Darke, who frequently corresponded and also worked with Marker, the show reveals the ways in which the artist's «central subject was intelligence, a very particular, astute intelligence that's also full of political acuity, humour and lyricism».

Tuanus (2000) has the scale of a history painting, the painterly gestures, blobs, patches and scrapes of impressionism, expressionism and American abstract expressionism and the graphic effects of screenprinting and technicolour — a sumptuous surface that belies the work's apparent subject: a drugs raid in central Frankfurt.

This subject has been central to Subotzky's work, to varying degrees, since graduating from The University of Cape Town in 2004.

The intimacy of Breath (1999), again a work with waves of text emanating from a central, circular beginning, seems to capture its subject like vapor exhaled onto glass the embodiment of a spiritual condition.

These major works remain an essential part of the New Image movement of the 1980s that heralded a return to subject and imagery in contemporary painting - a movement in which Jennifer Bartlett was a central figure.

Treves has concentrated on Lanyon's Cornish landscape paintings in this exhibition because these works form a central part of artist's oeuvre, have not been the subject of an exhibition in London for many decades.

Now in his 80thyear, Hockney has made happiness — expressed through bright colors and fun subject matter — central to a body of work that continues to expand at an extraordinary pace.

In 2007, Gross» work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California.

From his early multichannel video installation diamond sea, 1997, to his more recent performance - based works, such as SONG I, 2012/2015, the exhibition unfolds around the major moving - image installations that articulate Aitken's central subject matters, from catastrophic environmental depredation to unprecedented technological mediation; self - contained, decentralized communication; and the incursion of commerce into every aspect of our social relationships.

Representing the cube — one of the central subjects of artists during the late 1960s and early 1970s — but inscribing the moving body inside it, Locus knits together the Minimalist boxes of Donald Judd and Robert Morris with the critical reassessment of the gallery's qualities of containment that was implicit in the work of Bochner and many other artists at that time.18

Central to the work is a constant state of negotiation between the resistant nature of Einarsson's subjects and the inherent complacency of pre-established forms.

Considered a central figure in post-war American art, his work has been the subject of retrospective New York, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, and Munich and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001.

Returning again and again to this central preoccupation of his oeuvre over the course of decades, Motherwell would ultimately create 250 paintings and works on paper exploring the subject.

At times, Brown allows a singular moment of «narrative» awkwardness to assert itself as a work's central subject.

Taking Basel — its Rhine, architecture, and pharmaceutical history — as her central subject, Marina Pinsky (b. 1986) creates an oneiric landscape of new works for her first institutional exhibition in Switzerland and her largest solo show to date.

The cover of this issue features an early work by Jutta Koether, a central figure in the recent history of painting and the subject of a survey exhibition opening later this month at Museum Brandhorst, Munich.

Herrera is the subject of a 26 - minute documentary, Artists in Exile: Carmen Herrera, made in 1994, and of Carmen Herrera: 5 Degrees of Freedom, by Konstantia Kotaxis, produced for a major retrospective of the artist's work at the Miami Art Central in 2005.

Through repetition, duplication and restatement, this new series not only re-examines the central and ongoing concerns of Levine's artistic practice but also revisits one of the most prominent subjects of her oeuvre — the work of Walker Evans...

Herrera is the subject of a 26 minute documentary, Artists in Exile: Carmen Herrera, made in 1994, and of Carmen Herrera: 5 Degrees of Freedom, by Konstantia Kotaxis, produced for a major retrospective of the artist's work at the Miami Art Central in 2005.

Her perennially expanding reputation was widely established during the 1980s, when her work engaged formal aspects of painting as well as subject matter that remain central to her practice today.

Central to the mythology of Hancock's work is «Mound # 1» also known as «The Legend,» a half - human, half - tree mutant whose impending death is the subject of the latest chapter in Hancock's ongoing apocalyptic saga.

Consisting primarily of digital animation, my work and subject matter mirrors the structure of the underlying technology used in its creation and the repetitive processes that seem central to the infrastructure of contemporary society.

Together, the works are a celebration of the artist's central subject matters: from catastrophic environmental depredation to unprecedented technological mediation; self - contained, decentralised communication; and the incursion of commerce into every aspect of our social relationships.

Garner asks audiences to face the profound racism underlying the work of Dr. J. Marion Sims, the subject of a to - be decommissioned public statue along Central Park.

While studying painting at Central Saint Martins and at the Chelsea School of Art in London, he developed his unique approach; in works evoking the tradition of romantic landscape painting, Doig drew attention to the act of applying paint to the canvas by combining abstracted elements with ordinary subject matter.

He believes that the painting should be the central object of interest rather than represenative of some subject outside of the work.

I vary the degree of detail with which I represent the figures central to my work, and often distort features that allude to the subject's psychological state.

His work has also been the subject of important group and solo shows throughout the span of his almost 50 - year career, including Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2013); superhuman, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim (2012); Reenactor, Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA (2012); The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York (2010); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); Corbu Pops, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2009); Thirty Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2008); Black Is, Black Ain't, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2008); Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning at Art Institute of Chicago (2008); Art After White People: Time, Trees, and Celluloid... at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2007); William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2007); 7e Biennale de l'Art Africaine Contemporaine, Dakar, Senegal (2006); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2004); The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2004); Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York (2004); William Pope.L: the friendliest Black artist in America at ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, DoverseWorks Artspace in Houston, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, ME, Artists Space in New York, and Mason Gross Art Galleries at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ (2002 - 2004); eRacism: Retrospective Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland (2002); eRacism: White Room, Thread Waxing Space, New York (2000); Eating the Wall Street Journal and Other Current Consumptions, Mobius, Boston (2000); and Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 — 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998).

In my opinion the researchers in climatology should put aside their present work for a moment and focus their attention on the central and decisive subject of climatology.

They are also the subjects of portraits by Venezuelan photographer / biologist Antonio Briceño celebrating successes and highlighting continuing challenges in the country that hosted this year's World Environment Day.In line with the WED theme focusing on «the central importance to humanity of the globe's wealth of species and ecosystems,» the nonprofit group Art Works for Change brought Briceño to Rwanda to photograph the land and the people, which the artist paired in diptychs showing individuals and the ecosystems they rely on.