Sentences with phrase «contemporary urban environment»

And, if you decide to tour downtown, you will experience a combo of wildlife, countryside, and architecture as it co-exists with a more contemporary urban environment.

Hidden in Plain Sight highlights six diverse artists that navigate the contemporary urban environment by igniting photography, painting and mixed media sculpture in a way that expands spatial confines.

Wiley is restaging this history, transforming the race and gender of the traditional art - historical hero to reflect the contemporary urban environment.

Working primarily with representations of a contemporary urban environment, he is interested in the stereotypes associated with geographic and social spaces.

Multiplicity was an international survey of artworks sharing an interest in the politics and poetic potential of contemporary urban environments and exposing the irresistible pull of the similarities — intercultural meeting points, common problems, goals and dreams — around which people converge.

Spanning sculpture, drawing, photography and video, much of Orozco's work stems from his idiosyncratic observations of contemporary urban environments, revealing poetry in unexpected locations or the often playful combination of everyday objects.

Combining French anthropologist Andre Leroi - Gourhain's theorie of evolution with the myth of the centaur Chiron the film narrates the hybrid existence of human beings in contemporary urban environments.

Not exact matches

The title Another Brooklyn might evoke contemporary real - estate pitches about up - and - coming urban environments (e.g., «Boise, Idaho, is poised to become another Brooklyn»), but in Woodson's novel set in the 1970s, «Brooklyn,» particularly its working - class Bushwick neighborhood, means something much different and more complicated: «I watched my brother watch the world, his sharp, too serious brow furrowing down in both angst and wonder.

Juxtaposing images of the First World War memorial in the churchyard with the cranes and girders of contemporary urban development, Emin's personal heartache now becomes a metaphor for the lives fractured by the conflict, the passage of time and for the loss and eradication — as well as survival and perpetuation — of history and memory within the built environment.

With this, the artists offer an allegorical take on the transformation and upheaval of the urban environment, and more broadly, our contemporary era.

Richard Serra is best known for his enormous COR - TEN steel sculptures installed within gallery spaces, urban environments, and landscapes, and his significant work has had an enormous influence on the contemporary art world.

As the leader in its field, Public Art Fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in New York City and beyond by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences with art and the urban environment.

Empathy and awe at their beauty originally attracted Sally to the birds but consideration for their future in the urban environment has been explored, particularly in the sculptures, in the exhibition where it seems as though a contemporary Charles Darwin has proposed their future form where bird, car and computer parts have been brought together.

Genzken seems to be pointing out the inadequacies and failings of contemporary architects to celebrate the urban environment.

«Judd and Adkins have each made an indelible mark on contemporary art that is critical to understanding its evolution, while Bannard's influence on Color Field painting and Alÿs» work addressing issues of geopolitical and social conflict in urban environments both merit renewed attention.

The Fundación / Colección Jumex, Mexico's largest private contemporary art collection with more than 2,600 works, is presenting The Hunter and the Factory, an exhibition highlighting the impact of urban development on the natural environment.

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Public Art Fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in New York City and beyond by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences with art and the urban environment.

From historic monuments to contemporary commissions, art is everywhere in the urban environment

As an artist interested in mining the dense marks and language of the urban environment, married with a concern for contemporary abstract painting, the easiest thing in the world would be to embrace a provisional aesthetic of rough materials and utilitarian supports.

Whether operating locally or further abroad in South Africa, Gerald Machona, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Michele Mathison are receiving the attention their work merits, as a result of their continual investigation of pertinent contemporary, cultural themes such as democracy, intolerance, social trauma and the decaying urban environment, all which exist as a consequence of the progressive development of Southern Africa and Zimbabwe in particular.

Organized by curator and site95 founder Meaghan Kent, the series focuses on the influence of the urban environment on contemporary practices.

The artist's intention is to establish a progressive path through several purposefully built interconnected environments which enables the viewer to experience the passage from a dimension of noise, chaos and visual saturation — expressing life in contemporary cities — to a neutral setting where he intends to conduct a methodical dissection of familiar urban components with recourse to the unconventional media and destructive techniques which he has been exploring in his work.»

She mixed contemporary advertising with the slogans, poetry and song lyrics she experienced daily in Los Angeles, signaling her belief that the urban environment — the commonplace — was far from empty wasteland but rather a vehicle for hope and rejoicing.

THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SCULPTURE IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia 7 February 2009

In «Terrain,» the artist asks us to «think about these imprints left by the material processes of work as the evidence of our presence on the earth... how contemporary human beings, living in a western urban environment, can relate to the metaphysics of the labor which enables our lives.»

He echoes the polyphonic iconography of our urban environment and contemporary society by using repetition, patchworks of assorted patterns, and an exuberant palette of colors.

Mennour juxtaposes Morellet, a pioneering minimalist who passed away in 2016 at the age of 90, with Mohamed Bourouissa, a young Algerian - born Parisian artist whose multimedia practice explores contemporary social tensions and cultural idiosyncrasies, especially in urban environments.

She comments that, «gazing steadily at the point at which one element meets another, Terrain asks us to think about these imprints left by the material processes of work as the evidence of our presence on the earth, and to think about how contemporary human beings, living in a western urban environment, can relate to the metaphysics of the labor which enables our lives.»

Moderated by the urban environment updated through mobile phone technology, these works are underpinned by the digital - world's natural geometry and program design that structures contemporary life.

Song Dong, a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installations, performance, photography and video has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions around the world, covering a range of themes and topics including his relationship with his family and their experience of living in modern China (the topic of his widely exhibited installation Waste Not), the transformation of China's urban environment and the impermanence of change.

Both Michel and Gabriel are fascinated by humanities position within the fast paced and ever changing urban environment of the contemporary city.

Natural / Urban Environments: Extending Parameters in Contemporary Canadian Landscape Art exhibition

Now in its sixth year, the Sculpture in the City initiative aims to enhance our urban environment with cutting - edge contemporary works from leading artists.

«The lack of discipline in our present - day urban industrial environment has produced a visual condition, characterized by clutter, confusion and chaos,» wrote Allon Shoener, the curator of the exhibition Ladislav Sutnar: Visual Design in Action, which originated at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati in 1961.

He will be interrogating the urban environment of the Streatham area and its impact on the contemporary art.

Simon Callery Confronts the Urban Environment as a Subject for Contemporary Painting Widewalls, May 2016

Contemporary material and finish choices accentuate the clean, minimalist lines, while the compact cabinet designs are an ideal solution for urban living environments.