Sentences with phrase «contemporary social issues»

The series, which is divided into four different exhibitions, explores contemporary social issues through a critical visual lens.

Featuring approximately 160 photographs — many never shown before — the exhibition includes a remarkably varied body of work united by its formal beauty and its subtle consideration of contemporary social issues.

Using a social justice lens, we can expose the narratives of the many stakeholders in history, and we can analyze contemporary social issues from multiple lenses.

The books have a tongue - in - cheek reference to art history while also addressing contemporary social issues.

The program focuses on contemporary social issues and expanding notions of art and art materials.

Through their work, they question contemporary social issues such as identity, family relations, and the search of balance.

He is one of those high - end, abstract - thinking machines, keen on contemporary social issues but able to make his interests drive book and ticket sales.

Nicole Eisenman is an artist who is expanding the critical and expressive capacity of the Western figurative tradition through works that engage contemporary social issues and phenomena.

The shortlist for Artes Mundi 7 in 2016 brought together 6 international contemporary artists who directly engage with everyday life through their practice and who explore contemporary social issues across the globe.

Paul Barrett is director of Stephen Smith Fine Art, in Fairfield, Ala., a gallery focused on artists engaged in contemporary social issues.

Drawing upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as a conceptual basis, these projects and events aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them, utilizing a site - specific approach to culture and history.

From this perspective, contemporary social issue disputes, such as that over abortion, are not temporary aberrations, but rather the stuff of future politics, where an agenda of «traditional values» confronts an agenda of «personal liberation» or what Ronald Inglehart has called, somewhat misleadingly, «postmaterial» values.

Coventry's creative practices over the past decades have always attempted to awaken the idealistic, orderly and humanistic spirit represented by modernism within contemporary social issues.

Representing a marked departure in his practice, Titus Kaphar: The Jerome Project is composed of small - scale works that engage with contemporary social issues, particularly the criminal justice system.

Although the British culture is the pivotal source material for Leckey, whose famous Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore video collages found footage documenting British club scene, his depiction of contemporary social issues related to Internet, globalism and consumerism project a universal outlook.

MASS MoCA uses its array of world - class exhibition programming — particularly Kidspace's thematic exhibitions — as a platform for discussing contemporary social issues, as well as to expand notions about art and art materials.

I just want to see a rapturously gorgeous picture that happens to be about contemporary social issues.

Exploring notions of «foreignness» and estrangement, Machona reflects on one of the major contemporary social issues facing Zimbabweans in the 21st century.

his multidisciplinary practice draws on eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues expressed in the form of drawing, installation, video and performance.

To be shortlisted for the Artes Mundi Prize artists must create work that directly engages with people's everyday lives and experiences, exploring contemporary social issues from across the globe in a way that resonates both locally and internationally.

The shortlist for Artes Mundi 8 brings together 5 international contemporary artists who directly engage with everyday life through their practice and who explore contemporary social issues across the globe.

«Black Nativity» juggles a variety of contemporary social issues, and at times it's hard to tell who the film is pointing its fingers at.

Addressing contemporary social issues in light of political, economic and ecological changes, Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho embark on a quest towards an unknown future that is at once an end and an origin.

Drawing upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as a conceptual basis, these projects aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them, utilizing a site - specific approach to culture and history.

Expanding the expressive potential of the figurative tradition in works that engage contemporary social issues and restore cultural significance to the representation of the human form.

In the book's second half, they lay out their proposals for how the GOP can creatively apply traditional conservative principles to contemporary social issues.

The editorials, assigned by UNC English teacher Moira Marquis, asked students to research a contemporary social issue for young adults and share their findings.

Highlights include the 2013 photo series Mad Ellie by Tokyo artist collective, Chim - Pom, whose practice responds to contemporary social issues, as well as work from Venezuelan - born Spanish video artist, Patricia Esquivias.

His work provokes an inquiry into the layers of meaning associated with color and form, and his objects operate as metaphors for contemporary social issues.

Celebrated for the virtuosity with which she draws from both high and popular culture to explore contemporary social issues, the New York based artist was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation «Genius Grant» in 2015 and the Carnegie Prize in 2013.

Designed and employed curricula for high school History and high school elective course: Contemporary Social Issues