Sentences with phrase «collapsing pictorial space»

Seen in this context, the graphic optical effects deployed in these early compositions reveal the genesis of Asawa's interest in repeated forms, motion, and collapsing pictorial space that logically culminate in her wire sculptures.

In Drawing for Sculpture the Size of a House (2001), on view at the Whitney, he intensified this photographic compression by blacking out a house from a snapshot using felt - tip pen, radically collapsing the pictorial space and blocking most of the scene from view.

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In his handling of paint Colen collapses the legibility of his subjects, denying conventions of pictorial space, and conflating the phenomenal and the real.

In other canvases, floating geometrical shapes dip underneath and hover over pictorial objects, making space both collapse and expand — and in the process drawing attention to the physical mechanics of sight.