Sentences with phrase «contemporary consumer culture»

Ashley Bickerton rose to prominence in the early 1980s as part of New York's East Village art scene with his vibrant abstract works that offered a sardonic critique of contemporary consumer culture.

Basher's work is concerned with the conflicting, contradictory ways hope, desire, ideology and belief are manifest in contemporary consumer culture, specifically considering the pervasive drive of commerce to exploit a vast range of social, religious, tourist and bodily longings.

While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.

The Sims can be thought of as a virtual training ground for contemporary consumer culture, making explicit capitalist conceptions of happiness.

Following along the continuum of Pop art, his work critiques contemporary consumer culture, blurring the boundaries between it and the art world.

Prince's initial goal was to emphasize the powerful impact of mass media imagery in shaping contemporary consumer culture, but eventually, he ended up creating his very own pop style and powerful series of works which became some of the most wanted materials at many prestigious auctions.

They reference contemporary consumer culture through the use of iconic pop culture symbols in the form of shop - front - type signage and carnival shows inherent of British seaside towns, Las Vegas and Times Square.

His photographs portraying contemporary consumer culture reside in major museum collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

A retrospective of the work of conceptual artist, Christopher Williams, at MoMA in New York unravels the parade of contemporary consumer culture.

In 2009 a public sculpture by Fallis was installed in Newcastle Upon Tyne's Forth Square, entitled DNA DL90; a monumental 9 - meter high double helix structure made of supermarket shopping trolleys, a comment on contemporary consumer culture.

Hilla Toony Navok's work explores themes of high Modernism and abstraction as they appear in consumer products, as a way of examining the ideological underpinnings of design and the assimilation of the history of Modernism in contemporary consumer culture.

Typically working in series, his art holds up a mirror to contemporary consumer culture, using the photorealistic, commercial aesthetic familiar from an earlier generation of Pop artists to generate his own unique and universally recognizable style.

In her collages, photographs and sculptures, Nicole Wermers explores the modernist constructions which lie below our urban environment and contemporary consumer culture.

Toeing the line between modern expression and interior design, Zittel riffs on the dimensional possibility of Minimalist sculpture and the infinite customizability of contemporary consumer culture.

In her collages and sculptures, Nicole Wermer's (born in 1971) abstracts the attractions and surfaces of a contemporary consumer culture to architectural structures that allow for echoes of seduction and control.

The official version of art history describes New York: First there was Abstract Expressionism with its lofty, disengaged, macho mysticism; then in the»60s there was Pop, which dealt with advertising, the funnies and contemporary consumer culture.

For The Walthamstow Tapestry (2009), a textile work that scrolled 49 feet (15 metres) across a gallery wall, Perry arranged a series of detailed images — decoratively inspired by traditional Sumatran batiks but replete with references to contemporary consumer culture — into a sweeping narrative of a human life.

These two propositions are inextricably entangled in a contemporary consumer culture looking for «more - for-less» (Richard Susskind).