Sentences with phrase «contemporary visual imagery»

One of the things artists have to do today is to keep up with contemporary visual imagery.

Not exact matches

Working Artist Project recipient Xie Coamin's exhibition Samsāra, currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, combines the Buddhist mandala with the imagery of the World Trade Center in an abstracted composition that evokes the visual culture of his Chinese background alongside the documentation of United States history.

American Art Students learn to look at visual imagery through an exploration of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts representing the colonial period, the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars, westward expansion, the early twentieth century, and the contemporary moment.

Modeled after the Depression - era photography program of the Farm Security Administration, the commissions update the nation's visual imagery, creating a broad picture of the contemporary socio - economic moment.

Represented by Fishbach Gallery since 1978, Leigh Behnke is an NYC painter who teaches Foundation Painting (Honors) and Contemporary Imagery at the School of Visual Arts, where she has been a faculty member since 1979.

Exploring and questioning contemporary life through visual imagery, the approach of Pictures Generation artists is particularly relevant in understanding our current image - oriented culture and decoding the roles that images play as forms of representation, as icons, and as symbols.

Exploring and questioning contemporary life through visual imagery, her approach is particularly relevant in understanding our current image - oriented culture and decoding the roles that images play as forms of representation, as icons, and as symbols.

He then translates the imagery to a canvas using acrylic paint, resulting in vibrant landscapes filled with humor, social commentary, and a dizzying sampling of contemporary visual culture.

St. John's found imagery elevates the overused people and symbols in contemporary visual culture and reflects on the hierarchy of images.

Such machine imagery went on to figure largely in the visual languages essential to modernism and successive historical movements, and today the bachelor machine persists in the works of contemporary artists, albeit in less normatively gendered ways.

One of the nation's top contemporary artists brings his trademark mix of visual imagery and social commentary to the Chrysler in a voice - activated, multimedia presentation.

Some of his wall - based works combine the visual effect of tiled mosaics with pixellated digital imagery, a counterpoint that is typical of the artist's combination of traditional Iranian and contemporary Western iconography.

But as photographic imagery becomes embedded within an ever - proliferating array of visual spaces, the contemporary viewer is even harder pressed to isolate and articulate the photograph's distinguishing qualities.

Kessler turns to contemporary visual culture, and specifically Apple Inc., to examine the impact of popular and commercial imagery and products on society's desires and collective psyche.

Established contemporary visual artists have seen this powerful imagery and run with it.

Forward thinking 17 August «Sarah Charlesworth explored and questioned contemporary life through visual imagery, and her approach is particularly relevant in understanding our current image - oriented culture,» says Michael Govan, CEO of LACMA — where a major surgery of Charlesworth's work opens tomorrow.

Where his contemporaries have tended towards forthrightly sarcastic or slapstick imagery, Hanson's visual world tends to be oblique, subtle, multilayered, and sometimes romantic.