Sentences with word «cinderblock»

In this way, the artist marks a conceptual transition in American discourse from the notion of utopic white picket fences to the barriers of cinderblock walls and the lateral, stained wood fences commonly put in place when a home in a low - income community has been purchased by new socioeconomic groups moving in.

In my research into the wall system I discovered that Jackson Pollock, Rauschenberg, and Rothko — among many others — did shows where they hung their paintings on cinderblock walls, because they're cheap and quick.

(They had to use a different type of decorative cinderblock on the addition.

The apartment was as awful as you can imagine: a single - story cinderblock building with a rotted roof.

Timo spent weeks working alongside Rafa as well, pouring adobe in cinderblock molds and experimenting with colliding those two dissimilar building modes.

I wanted to show you WHY we bought our ugly, little cinderblock house.

He also built outside sheds with cinderblock.

Some longtime animal welfare professionals can remember the days of tiny cinderblock shelters hidden away from the community, bare concrete kennels and unthinkable euthanasia rates.

Hug It Forward says that's 30 to 100 per cent cheaper than traditional cinderblock construction.

While taking Spanish school in Guatemala I stayed with the Bixcul - Pichilla family in their small two - story cinderblock home nestled at the bottom of Volcano San Pedro.

He mounts one of his earlier paintings, a 1994 piece called Cell with Conduit, in the entryway, and on the adjoining wall installs a mural - size metallic digital print that echoes the wall's cinderblock pattern.

The makeover took place inside a small three room cinderblock cottage.

The artist employs unexpected media such as cinderblock, fired stoneware, clothing, resin, ear buds, mirror and fiberglass to question the nature of the relationship between people and things.

Some longtime animal welfare professionals can remember the days of tiny cinderblock shelters hidden away from the community, bare concrete kennels and unthinkable euthanasia rates.

But after discovering the big cinderblock building to the left was positively swarming with hundreds of carpenter bees...

In a small blue - grey cinderblock building on County Road 561, 6,104 killings have occurred in the past 12 months and more will die today.That doesn't shock Frankie Thorp — she's used to seeing it happen.However, as director of Lake County Animal Control, she said she never will stop being upset about having to kill stray dogs and cats when owners don't accept responsibility for their pets.

(Versus painting it a pastel or some other color that might look unnatural on a «rocky» material like (bumpy) decorative cinderblock.)

can't wait to see more pictures of your little cinderblock house.

: --RRB- The makeover took place inside a small three room cinderblock cottage.

(PS - One of our wood walls is an interior wall, and the exterior one has insulation and cinderblocks behind it so we haven't seen a change in our electric bill.)

My experience as a pastor fades in comparison to such hardships endured by heroic men and women who have nothing but stones and fallen cinderblocks to hammer into gravel for concrete.

Even though Monet wasn't my personal favourite — I was more of a Van Gogh kind of girl — I thought the poster classed up the bare cinderblock walls place nicely with my stacks of books with USED SAVES stickers on the spine and the gigantic Windows 286 computer taking up my entire side of a shared desk and so I kept it throughout my years at university.

Threatened with forced psychological treatment, he pleads guilty to the charges brought against him, receives multiple life sentences, and takes up residence in a solitary, windowless cinderblock cell in a maximum - security prison.

It has a Nutrition Services Center, a squat cinderblock building located in a distressed north - side industrial strip that looks more than anything like the place where food goes to die.

And people saw these big public housing projects and they saw them go up, the big cinderblock monsters.

«We keep adding cinderblocks to the methodology, and it's slowly becoming robust.»

Other embarrassing misfires include gags involving animal abuse, cinderblock emasculation, reckless driving, and so on.

What better milieu for Paul Williams's creepier cousin, the fever king of trash cinema, than the close, monochrome cinderblock environs of a female prison?

So a week before school let out, Sandorf cleaned out his room, leaving few decorations on the whitewashed cinderblock walls.

Nothing moves me or John, but a huge cinderblock the size of a dining room table comes down, and it hits Dominick right across his legs and it slams him down.

Whether your lease was suddenly canceled or your ancient facility is a few cinderblocks away from collapse, a capital campaign can help you finance your new shelter.

Cowering under parked pick - up trucks, slinking through weeds at the side of the road, or staring out of cinderblock cages....

Newtown's Animal Control facility («dog pound») consisted of a small cinderblock office at the dump complete with roughly a dozen chain link kennels for impounding stray dogs.

Unfortunately there is no Nunchuck functionality in this controller, so the days of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Cinderblock will have to wait for another controller to come around.

Carl Andre with his steel plates and cinderblocks stand as only one path among many in a gallery's interior.

Untitled Project: Sign [Relax and Take Your Fucking Time][+ cinderblock, VHS: Slacker, Paperback: Theory of the Leisure Class], 2010, oil paint on carved wood, installation, 82 x 108 x 58 inches.

In 1995, LeWitt floored the art world all over again with a show of «Cinderblock Structures» — the most powerful sculptures of his career — at the Ace Gallery's now defunct Manhattan space.

The Suburban compound — a duo of cinderblock huts outside the Grabner - Killam residence — could be understood as an anti-Chelsea, a space by and for artists that attempts to circumvent commercial and institutional means of distributing art.

Or Peter Flemming's piece which has cinderblocks hanging at kid height.

Walking into the main gallery, the viewer is confronted with a wall covered in the metallic cinderblock, on which two new greyscale paintings hang.

The new location, which has already played host to ambitious, large - scale exhibitions (notably, a recreation of Urs Fischer's 1998 sculpture Faules Fundament, or Rotten Foundation; a wall of cinderblocks laid in cement atop a base of slowly rotting fruit and vegetables), also features a sizable selection of the gallery's publishing projects.

Over the course of the installation, the work changes from from depressive cinderblock greyscale to full - on, high - key color.

The gallery is please to announce the acquisition of Chris Duncan's major work, «White Cinderblock,» by the Berkeley Art Museum, for their permanent collection.

Near the entrance to Pier 94, I stood in the shadow of a massive kinetic cinderblock suspended roughly 10 feet above my head, which was developed by Dutch artists Studio Drift and presented by Pace Gallery.

With the car's cinderblock base representing stasis, and its coating of tire treads suggesting perpetual movement, Ward's Smart Tree holds up a mirror to the flux surrounding the High Line itself and reminds viewers of the High Line's history as a major transportation artery in Manhattan.

Or, from another perspective, it is as though there is some basic picture — any old image — that represents a kind of rough - and - ready cinderblock consciousness of something; it is covered over by contradictory yet complementary veneers, but nothing has been substantially altered in the process.

Being the daughter of a home - builder, I was lucky to have unlimited access to scraps; and those scraps of plywood, corrugated steel, two - by - fours, nails, and leftover cinderblocks provided the basis for fabulous forts.