Sentences with phrase «contemporary conceptual strategies»

Not exact matches

Strategies that emerged earlier in the circles of the surrealists and New Vision photographers — the untutored «photographic mistake,» photography as a form of literary pointing — adopted by the artists in this exhibition have subsequently been absorbed by the contemporary generation using photography as conceptual art, from Gabriel Orozco to Hank Willis Thomas.

Several of these artists engage with strategies of conceptual art, addressing themes about contemporary experiences such as technology and the internet, notions of migration, local and mainstream cultures, or ideas of representation.

It also focuses on the evolution of conceptual art in subsequent decades as a tool to deconstruct existing precepts regarding gender and race, and as a strategy in presenting ideas regarding the complexities of contemporary society and how artists skillfully negotiate these complexities as it relates to themselves and the community at large.

More recently, Wangechi Mutu, Iona Rozeal Brown, Mickalene Thomas, Shinique Smith, Rashid Johnson and Kalup Linzy have gained notoriety in the contemporary art scene for their demonstration of a wide range of visual and conceptual strategies.

The exhibition's second section, «Legacy,» explores Lawrence's own influence on contemporary artists who share similar formal and conceptual strategies and themes, and includes commissioned works by artists strongly influenced and inspired by Lawrence such as Derrick Adams, Meleko Mokgosi, Barbara Earl Thomas and Hank Willis Thomas.

Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design demonstrates how 20th and 21st century creators have engaged the medium of wood with conceptual and technical strategies.

«Immersing himself in the study of magic over the past two years, Kaino's inquiry unveils the restructuring of the social contract between art and audience, generating new conceptual strategies that bridge contemporary systems of art production and exhibition with the mythical and mysterious dimensions of magic.

«Legacy» explores Jacob Lawrence's influence on contemporary artists living and working today who share similar formal and conceptual strategies and themes.

Transavanguardia not only reintroduced figurative painting into the predominantly Minimalist and Conceptual scene of the period, but proposed devices like allegory and mythology as valid strategies in contemporary art discourse, much to the chagrin of the art - world establishment at the time.

In this exhibition, I attempt to present a cross-section of contemporary painting being made in New York today by emerging and mid-career artists, underscoring the conceptual methodologies being strategically employed by painters, and how conceptual artists have turned to painting as a strategy.

Sturtevant and her rigorous, committed conceptual strategy are central to ongoing debates on the concept of originality in contemporary art and beyond.

This open - hearted and stimulating interchange was organized around three themes: the conceptual process that led up to the new installation plan and its outcomes regarding questions of narrative, chronology and mediation; the plan itself and the choices that have been made regarding possible clusters of works and themes, as well as the actual works to be displayed; and, finally, the position of the Stedelijk Museum in the contemporary debates surrounding the canon, curatorial strategies, the relationship between fine art and visual culture, and the influence of non-museological display formats on museum practice.

1991 La metafisica della Luce / The Metaphysics of Light, John Good Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Demetrio Paparoni) Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA The Lick of the Eye, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA (curated by David Pagel) Hybrid Abstraction, Bennington College Art Gallery, Bennington, Vermont, USA (curated by Joshua Decter) Strategies for the Next Painting, Wolff Gallery, New York; traveled to Feigen Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois, USA (curated by Saul Ostrow) Contemporary Abstract Painting: Resnick, Reed, Laufer, Moore, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA (curated by Molly Sullivan)

A veteran of the Los Angeles conceptual art scene, Kelley used deconstructive strategies in order to challenge the established norms of contemporary culture, both high and low.

The Pixel Boxes have become her most familiar component: initially fabricated in beech wood with a glass front screen, their softly changing and pulsing colours at first distilled and abstracted complex visual patterns into simple shifting monochromes, and became a signature of a conceptual practice that avoided the shock strategies of many of her contemporaries.