Sentences with phrase «contemporary issues of identity»

His work explores contemporary issues of identity and consumption, human excess...

Margaret Bowland creates work that confronts contemporary issues of identity through probing and deeply personal pictures that question Western societal expectations of gender, race, power, and beauty.

Of Papers, Please, Ahmed said, «The jury found this an excellent example of a game with the power to affect people and the way they think about contemporary issues of identity in a subtle but powerful way, and all while effectively holding down a desk job.»

Long Black Veil will appeal to readers who enjoy complex plots and exploring contemporary issues of identity and the role of gender; as well as the idea of self - reinvention.

Not exact matches

The problem is that the contemporary discussion of these issues only envision extreme options: either total concept - incommensurability or all - out concept identity.

On the other hand, to celebrate the integrity of the tradition, its documents and declarations, to give impetus to the continued reflection of the church on issues of contemporary meaning and value, is to experience the renewing power of being a part of a community of faith, of having an identity which transcends the anomic character of «doing your own thing» and going it alone.

2001 Introduction (by Robbie Davis - Floyd, Sheila Cosminsky, and Stacy L. Pigg) to Daughters of Time: The Shifting Identities of Contemporary Midwives, a special triple issue of Medical Anthropology, Vols.

Anam writes an engaging, thought provoking story that portrays a contemporary family experience in Bangladesh; one that examines the issue of identity and living between east and western cultures.

A multi-screen, documentary - style video installation, «Question Bridge» presents a dynamic series of «exchanges» among black men who span generations and backgrounds about a range of contemporary issues particularly relevant to their experiences such as race, identity, faith, family and fatherhood — .

For over a decade, Helen Johnson (b. 1979, Melbourne, Australia) has used painting as a tool to investigate issues around the legacy of colonialism, the construction of national identity, personal history, and contemporary politics in her native Australia.

Organized by Tumelo Mosaka (Curator of Contemporary Art at the Krannert Art Museum), University of Illinois, this exhibition focuses on the various ways artists from around the world respond to issues about identity particularly those defined by race and ethnicity.

Wǒmen (我们): Contemporary Chinese Art showcases work by a selection of contemporary Chinese women artists who engage with issues of identity formation in a globalized society marked by rapid urbanization and the incursion of digital technologiContemporary Chinese Art showcases work by a selection of contemporary Chinese women artists who engage with issues of identity formation in a globalized society marked by rapid urbanization and the incursion of digital technologicontemporary Chinese women artists who engage with issues of identity formation in a globalized society marked by rapid urbanization and the incursion of digital technologies in China.

2010 Schwager, Michael, Personal Identities / Contemporary Portraits, University Art Gallery Sonoma State University, November / December Schuster, Dana, A-List Artist, New York Post, 29 December Siverio, Ida, Kehinde's R - evolution, October, pp. 24 - 27 Watson, Simon, Kehinde Wiley, Whitewall Fall 2010, pp. 119 - 123 Halperin, Julia, Kehinde Wiley Now Represented in New York by Sean Kelly Gallery, New York Observer, 17 September Jackson, Brian Keith, A World Stage, Juxtaposed: Kehinde Wiley Between Africa and China, Leap No. 03, pp. 86 - 93 PAFA's Summer Surprises and More, SanArt, 1 August Feldman, Melissa, World Cup Chic Kehinde Wiley's Fancy Footwork, New York Times Magazine, 2 June Loszach, Fabien, Bling - Bling, Everytime I Come Around, Esse Arts + Opinions, No. 69, Spring / Summer Badinella, Chiara and Fabrizio Affronti, Grandi Maestri, Fonte Perenne, La Casana No. 1, January - March, pp. 26 - 29 100 Artisti da Scommetterci / 100 Artists to Bet On, Arte Magazine, Milan, Italy, August, pp. 120 - 140 Hunt, Kena and Watson, Simon, Kehinde Wiley, Vogue Italia, October Dreyfuss, Joel, Meet the Root 100, 2010 Edition, The Root unveils its latest list of young African - American pace setters and game changers, The Root, 10 October Garfield, Joey, Kehinde Wiley, Juxtapoz January, pp. 46 - 61 Karcher, Eva, The Colours of Africa: Art Beyond the Primitive, The Mini International Vol.34, Issue 2, pp. 36 - 41 Krentcil, Faran, First Look: Puma Africa, Nylon Magazine, 16 March

This question of identity has pervaded nearly every aspect of contemporary life raising issues too complex to be easily resolved.

John Feodorov is a conceptual artist whose work addresses contemporary issues of consumerism, the environment and identity.

This provocative exhibition focuses on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations.

Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.

By placing socially historical imagery in a contemporary context, Dunn is able to rigorously question a range of issues from racial identity to social justice through his artistic practice.

Drawn from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection, Revealing Pictures displayed contemporary photographic works engaging with the medium's ability to articulate complex issues of national identity, culture and resistance, both personal and beyond.

At the heart of his work lies a strong interest and commitment to social issues of race, gender, identity and post-colonial politics, whilst maintaining a valuable self - critical perspective on the role of the artist in contemporary culture.»

Using their own bodies as vehicles, the artists featured in SELF REFLECTION contemplate contemporary issues of gender, identity, sexuality, body image, censorship, and self - liberation.

This exhibition addressed contemporary portraiture as the nexus of three issues: visuality, location, and identity.

Thomas's work grows from a long study of art history, drawing inspiration from the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life, as well as from contemporary popular culture, the imagery of which she uses to explore issues of identity and race, as well as beauty and the self.

David appropriates elements from modernist design and contemporary culture in order to deal with issues of identity, queer politics, and complex emotional states.

Wild Noise / Ruido Salvaje is an exploration of contemporary Cuban art from the 1970s to the present that looks at how Cuban artists both on the island and abroad have grappled with issues of identity, community, and the urban experience.

She also co-curated the exhibition Fatal Love: South Asian American Contemporary Art Now, as well as coordinated two editions of Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere, which commissioned eight artists to develop public art works that engage local residents on issues of neighborhood history and identity as well as tensions around its various transformations.

2009 Beall, Dickson, SLAM for the holidays, West End World, 23 December Dawson, Jessica, Yinka Shonibare, skewing history with his images, The Washington Post, 20 November Judkis, Maura, Yinka Shonibare MBE: «As Artists, We are Liars», Washington City Paper, 13 November Geldard, Rebecca, Time Out, 6 November Lewis, Sarah, Yinka Shonibare: Brooklyn Museum, New York, Artforum, October Cole, Teju, Shonibare's fantasies of empowerment, 234 next.com, 10 July Hoffman, Barbara, Headless Bods, New York Post, 10 July Genocchio, Benjamin, The Rich Were Different (and Perhaps Still Are), The New York Times, 10 July Kazakine, Katya, Adam Smith, Ocelots Channel History in Artist's Textile World, Bloomberg.com, 8 July Lacayo, Richard, Decaptivating, TIME Magazine, 6 July Rosenberg, Karen, Fashions of a Postcolonial Provocateur, The New York Times, 3 July McLaughlin, Mike, Show blows away art world, The Brooklyn Paper, 2 July Olowu, Duro, Style.com/Vogue, July McCartney, Alison, Class, Culture and Identity in Party Time, NJ.com, 26 June Tambay, Defining Blackness Series, Shadow and Act, 21 June Sontag, Deborah, Challenging cultural stereotypes, International Herald Tribune, 19 June Sontag, Deborah, Headless Bodies from Bottomless Imagination, The New York Times, 17 June Bergman, Amerie, Yinka Shonibare MBE @ Museum of Contemporary Art, White Hot, June Later, Paul, Postcolonial Hybrid fuses art and politics, Flavor Pill, Summer How schoolchildren shaped the new Trafalgar Square plinth, The Times, 22 May Knight, Yinka Shonibare at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Christopher, The LA Times 6 April Hunter, Alice, Encountering Excess, Art of England, Issue 56, April Jeno, Heather, Hip, British - Born Artist's Show Ushers in a New Era at SBMA, The Santa Barbara Independent, 31 March Pote, Mariana, African Art?

Working around issues of black male identity in the exhibition Tailor, Singer, Striker, Dandy (2011) at the Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester Art Gallery she selected from the large West African textile collection in the gallery's stores and reinterpreted the materials to express contemporary and historic male identity through appearance and clothes.

Performa 17 demands close considerations of today's most pressing social issues, tackling the multiplicity of African identities, how performance is shaped by the built environment and vice versa, and how Dadaism remains salient in the subversive consciousness of contemporary artists.

The group show, titled after the song «To be Young, Gifted, and Black» by Nina Simone with lyrics from Weldon Irvine and written in the memory of Simone's late friend Lorraine Hansberry author of Raisin in the Sun, surrounded ideas and issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture since 2010.

One of the most important and celebrated contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has for over thirty years investigated issues of race, gender, and class, and her artwork continues to raise important questions about cultural identity and the politics of representation.

In the context of 2016, (Re) Public celebrates the self - determination and agency of the country while tackling contemporary issues in Ireland which have broader resonance globally, these include: — hidden histories of state institutional abuse (Nolan) community identity in post conflict rural border regions (North 55), issues relating to natural cycles in time, climate change and its global effects (Softday), the individual's struggle for autonomy within the field of mental health (Tighe), the importance of creative autonomy and independence for the right to self - expression in movement and dance (Donnellan) and strategies of resistance that include artistic intervention, self - organization, and collectivism (Morley).

She investigates contemporary art that mines issues of cultural identity, politics, immigration, and the commingling of varied cultural influences.

Hart's works deal with issues of representation, and the role of the computer in shifting contemporary values about identity and what might be called the natural.

Imaginary Coordinates, published on the occasion of an exhibition originating at Chicago's Spertus Museum, juxtaposes the museum's extensive collection of antique Holy Land maps with contemporary artwork by Israeli and Palestinian women (including Ayreen Anastas, Yael Bartana, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Sigalit Landau, Enas Mutthafar, Michal Rovner and Shirley Shor) to explore issues of national identity, borders and the critical disparity between maps and lived experience.

Razmi's body of work focuses on issues of identity and gender while appropriating national, cultural and artistic references to reposition pop - culture within a contemporary Iranian context, giving her re-embodied, re-contextualized works a tongue - in - cheek quality.

Issues of racial identity, time and space, and a utopian future take shape in the twisted visions of some of today's most imaginative contemporary artists.

The confluence of identity issues and contemporary life concerns are what have made performance as an artistic practice immensely relevant for them as they explore the binary complexity of their identity and address new agendas, completely unrestrained by tradition and convention.

Ceramics Finds Its Place in the Art - World Mainstream Lilly Wei writes... From the first generation of modernists who worked in clay to contemporary practitioners, all have made breakthroughs: in scale, in single objects as well as expansive installations; in technical experimentation; in increasingly original formal resolutions from the abstract to the realistic; and in content, exploring issues about the body, identity, politics, history, feminism, domesticity, means of production, and beauty... more

Her other works also explore issues of gender and female identity in contemporary Islamic culture.

Coming late July 2018, Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness is a monumental installation of 40 identical figurative sculptures that speak to contemporary issues of race, politics and identity

Rennie Collection is a leading collection of contemporary art that focuses on issues related to identity, social commentary and injustice, appropriation, and the nature of painting and photography.

By combining historical and contemporary art and film, Gordon has created a visual collage that narrates issues of self - representation and double identity.

In an age in which social media has dominated our public and private lives, and issues of identity and representation abound, performance is a contemporary mode of artistic practice.

A founding member of the artists» collective REPOhistory, Kuoni has curated and co-curated numerous transdisciplinary exhibitions on issues such as contemporary Native American identity and colonial, 19th - century portraiture; democratic, participatory processes; artistic and social networks; new notions of transient and temporary spaces; or agency.

Yinka Shonibare MBE's works bring together disparate cultural references and material to explore issues around colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation, as well as issues of national and racial identity and class and cultural politics.

Opening: «Carla Gannis: A Subject Self - Defined» at Transfer A digital artist who's known for her videos and photographs that mix contemporary culture with Old Master paintings, Carla Gannis presents new work that deals with issues of identity and branding.

Pop - art may have been one of the first contemporary art movements to appropriate consumerist imagery, but Kruger's postmodern conceptual art - which also appeared on billboards and T - shirts - was the first to explore and analyze how the mass media presents, distorts and objectifies issues concerning identity, sexuality and the portrayal of women.

Jérôme Havre is a Toronto based artist whose practice concentrates on issues of identity, communities and territories, investigating the political and sociological processes of contemporary life as they relate to nationalism in France and Canada.

The work of three dozen contemporary artists — including figures such as Kara Walker, April Bey and Ken Gonzales - Day — examines issues related to race and identity in this new group show.