Sentences with phrase «ceramic objects made»

Sterling Ruby's large - scale ceramic basins are loaded with an array of ceramic objects made to resemble tools, rocks, animal tusks, and shards of rusted metal.

Not exact matches

The markings suggest that some workshops made several types of ceramic objects, says East Asian art historian Lothar Ledderose of Heidelberg University in Germany.

After uncovering a range of decorated crafts, ceramics and refined stone artifacts, he says scientists have unearthed strong evidence for amalgams made of sulfate gypsum and other local minerals to create a variety of pigments to decorate objects and paint murals on walls.

The markings suggest that some workshops made several types of ceramic objects, says Lothar Ledderose.

The exhibition will offer 270 objects made of ceramic, glass, stucco, paper, wood, metal, and various textiles, all of which are on loan from public and private American, European, and Middle Eastern collections.

This making process — along with the idiosyncrasies, imperfections, and errors of the handmade — is vitrified and sealed into distinctive functional ceramic objects.

And needless to say, there's nothing wrong with craft ceramics; in fact, all of the ceramicists discussed here continued to make functional objects their entire careers.

His work spans a range of media including photography, painting, sculpture, installation and use of the ready - made to create assemblages from everyday found objects such as books, ceramics, TV sets and other house - hold goods and paraphernalia, which Liu Wei transforms into sculptural objects and installations of eloquent complexity.

Known primarily for including household objects like clothing and furniture in her ceramic sculptures, Chicago - based artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins makes works that are playful and exploratory, though inherently emotional.

Over a 50 - year period, between the late 1930s until his death in 1983, Von Bruenchenhein produced expansive bodies of work in poetry, photography, ceramics, painting, objects made from chicken and turkey bones, and drawing.

Referring to concrete as a «democratic ceramic», Dean also uses other inexpensive and readily available materials such as MDF, shuttering ply, sand, steel and corrugated metal to make objects and environments which demonstrate and, in some instances, literally spell out the writing from which the work takes its origin.

Guests also like to explore my diverse whimsical fine craft: rattles, spirit dolls, ceramic goddesses and wands made with found & organic objects.

The sought - after Los Angeles painter's first London solo focuses on flat, collage - like interiors laden with pots and other decorative objects (some of which evoke the ceramics made by Wood's wife, Shio Kusaka).

Dwyer is a ceramic artist who makes socially engaged ceramic sculptures and functional art objects.

In his sculptural works that explore materials such as bronze and ceramic, the artist makes physical some of his more curious and eccentric propositions by transforming found objects or by playing with their scale.

Meissen ceramics, Zen Buddhism, and Post-Minimalism have all served as reference points in her work, which calls attention to the way objects are presented in institutions, how knowledge is passed between cultures, and how sculptures get made.

Following in the footsteps of Jungian individuation through play and active imagination, Louis's series of photographs from 2011 document whimsical yet elegant sculptures made in the artist's studio out of common domestic kitchen objects such as glassware, mixing bowls and ceramic plates.

A strange cross between a butchers shop and a nightclub 26 May — 7 July 2013 Jonathan Baldock's first solo exhibition in the UK for three years will include an entirely new body of work initiated during his residency at Wysing last year; large - scale felt sculptures, ceramic objects, corn - dolly masks and hand - made wall prints.

Through a combination of performance, drawing, painting, installation, video and ceramic object - making, she investigates the hybrid nature of African identity, contesting notions of authenticity.

Caroline works with ceramics, textiles, and other materials to make metaphorical or paradoxical objects.

Alongside her neo-folk paintings, Los Angeles - based artist Ruby Neri (b. 1970, United States) has been experimenting with sculpture in a series of works made by assembling disparate materials such as ceramics, bronze, plaster, and found objects.

Often working with every day and found materials such as fabric, glass, wood, metal and ceramics, the artist typically makes small to medium scale organic constructions that combine an almost «Beuysian» shamanistic or ritualistic use of materials with the formalism of early modernist sculptural objects.

Featuring more than 40 exceptional contemporary Japanese ceramists profoundly inspired by the natural world, this exhibition showcases ceramic objects of unsurpassed beauty made for everyday use.

The scene is set as one then enters the «real» exhibition — a sickly Rocco world of pastiche and a hand - made set for Wheele's ceramics and digitally created paintings which depict a garish world of alien characters, fake objects and antiques, and gore.

They have a great printmaking and ceramics facility, where I will be making a series of «net» objects.

Daniel Sinsel's fidelity to traditional pictorial genres rendered in oil on canvas, as well as his employment of age - old craft techniques in the fabrication of his objects (including metalworking, ceramics and casting) seems intent on making us aware of the time and labor invested in them.

A Chicago artist named William O'Brien makes the show's biggest splash with a crowded tabletop menagerie of objects, mostly vessels, both ceramic and not.

Barrão: Mashups Whimsical and bizarre ceramic sculptures made from porcelain and clay fragments that subvert the function of the original objects and reveal unpredictable relationships.

Working again from these source materials, Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction ## 36B [Made in England] consists of a still image that features five English ceramic objects that are in conversation with one another in a black box.

With little preciousness, Ryan champions these sloppy green ceramic objects, pocked with her fingerprints, making them animate on their lofty perch.

This section features five distinct sensibilities: Michael Dee with his large star sculptures made from heated plastic cups; David Kiddie collaborating with Michael Reafsnyder creating ceramic platters, and Reafsnyder alone, crafting mermaid goddesses out of clay; Heimir Björgúlfsson sees nature and culture as inseparable in his enigmatic found object works; and Wayne White continues to confound us with his unique brand of humor and skill in new ceramic work (PORKGREASE) and painted wood sculptures.

According to Baltimore Clayworks, this new exhibition «will feature the best in ceramic design: hand - made objects that have a playful twist on functionality or that possess a quiet craftsmanship.»

You can appreciate artifacts for what they are: an object of human craft like a well - turned vase (the Phone is made of ceramic, after all).