We Are Not Things borrows strategies from this early - twentieth - century fervor around machines and mechanization against the backdrop of a pervasive
contemporary cultural narrative: the feminization of the future.
Not exact matches
This is the heart of Weerasethakul's work; taking old forms that have been suppressed or forgotten (as in the animist folk tales of Thailand) and re-forming them into
narratives that speak with renewed urgency to the
contemporary cultural climate.
Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes
Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National
Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «
Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose
Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «
Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY
Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging
contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous
narratives of
cultural self - determination with the broader public sphere.
Wiley's signature portraits of everyday men and women riff on specific paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with
contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and
cultural narratives.
Tracy Rose's work has consistently questioned and challenged the prevalent aesthetics of international
contemporary art centres, as well as the emergence of a dominant
cultural narrative of struggle and reconciliation in South Africa.
In his second exhibition with the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Meschac Gaba executes a powerful
narrative on
cultural identities and the
contemporary issues faced by refugees and immigrants.
Contemporary heir to the pop artists, Da Corte combines these common consumer objects with pop
cultural references, personal family
narratives — and even other artists» work — in vibrant sculptures, paintings, videos, and immersive installations.
Contemporary artists Bethany Collins, Xaviera Simmons, and Carmen Winant address the often - overlooked histories — or gray areas — buried within our shared
cultural narratives.
By replacing the European aristocrats with
contemporary black subjects, Wiley's portraits draw attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and
cultural narratives.
The audience is presented with not only a new way of experiencing
contemporary cultural production but with a new framework for seeing artifacts from our social and historical
narratives and resignifying our relationship to them.
Select group exhibitions featuring her work include Telling Tales:
Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2016 - 2015); Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon (2015); The Noir Effect, Skirball
Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2014); No Fashion, Please: Photography Between Gender and Lifestyle, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2011); and New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010).
«New
Narratives:
Contemporary Art from India,» Chicago
Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
By replacing the typical European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with
contemporary black subjects, Wiley is able to draw attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and
cultural narratives and raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation.
We hope that this exhibition will inspire new ways to experience
contemporary art and the evolving
narratives that make up our
cultural fabric.»
An offsite exhibition of moving image works to coincide with the art forum berlin international art show and art berlin
contemporary (abc) The moving image works in V - Effekt thematise
cultural and historical
narratives and take their inspiration from various existing aesthetic contexts.
Kara Walker's work is well known for the incisive connections it draws between the legacy of slavery in the United States, the evolution of historical
narratives and
cultural beliefs, and
contemporary race relations.
He's currently part of the group show «
Contemporary Narrative» exhibited at the Southampton
Cultural Gallery and curated by Arlene Bujese.
The exhibition «Parapolitics» brings together artworks from the 1930s to the present by artists that prefigure and reflect the ideological and formal struggles arising from the
cultural Cold War, but also works by
contemporary artists critically reassessing the normalized
narratives of modernism.
Traveled to Grazer Kunstverein, Austria and The Studio Museum, New York Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2000 Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900 - 2000, Section 5, 1980 - 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue) 1999 Through the Looking Glass, Newhouse Center for
Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor
Cultural Center, NY 1995 In a Different Light, (co-curator), University of California, Berkeley Art Museum (catalogue) Into a New Museum - Recent Gifts and Acquisitions of
Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1994 Body and Soul, (with Cindy Sherman, General Idea and Ronald Jones), Baltimore Museum of Art Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (catalogue) Black Male, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) 1993 Building a Collection: The Department of
Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I Love You More Than My Own Death, Venice Biennale 1992 Translation, Center for
Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw California: North and South, Aspen Art Museum, CO Recent
Narrative Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI Facing the Finish, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalogue) Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Art Museum, OR The Auto Erotic Object, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York 1991 Third Newport Biennial: Mapping Histories, Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA (catalogue) Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Louder, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago The Interrupted Life: On Death and Dying, New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna.
This traditional oral form inspired the region's cinema at its origins, as well as other modern
narrative genres, and intersects in their work with archival footage assembled to represent
contemporary history and engender new
cultural forms of post-colonialisation.
Drawing from the legacies of the European Old Masters and Christian iconography, as well as mythology and
cultural lore, the artist layers existing histories with new
narratives suggested by
contemporary world events to create a psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness and repulsion.
Terry Svat by imaging pictographs reminiscent of Lascaux cave drawings, Pauline Jakobsberg by constructing
narratives to confront
cultural memory, Felisa Federman by depicting folk legend concerning natural and landscape, and the negation of people's personalities by standardization, Miguel Perez - Lem who paints
contemporary landscapes relating to agricultural memory in Latin America, Nancy Nesvet who paints seascapes of degrading glaciers and animals whose future is threatened.
To date, these have included Future Imperfect:
Contemporary Art Practices and
Cultural Institutions in the Middle East (2016); Dissonant Archives:
Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested
Narratives in the Middle East (2015); and Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East (2014).
Thanks to the Department of
Cultural Affairs for welcoming Betty Seid, a Chicago - based independent curator (with past ties to the Museum of
Contemporary Art and... read more... «New
Narratives:
Contemporary Art From India»
This year, PROJECTS featured two important facets of
contemporary art practice today: progressive media such as technology, augmented reality and kinetic art, alongside insightful historical and
cultural narratives.
Each adopting the age - old craft of woodcutting through a distinctive
contemporary technique, Fish and Yokono employ bold and enchanting cartoon - like
narratives to illustrate quotidian and pop
cultural excerpts.
Through varied media and diverse approaches, they chronicle the present moment and their work often questions dominant
cultural narratives and addresses important
contemporary issues.