Sentences with phrase «craft traditions upritchard»

It's also a hybrid of a design dream and local craft traditions, says Hefer on the Animal Farm blog:

And so we're really trying to put down roots in the local communities where we work to make sure that — using local materials, local know - how, and really simple means, like craft traditions such as weaving, sewing, and braiding — we can connect the technology into everyday life.

The paintings incorporate a complex amalgam of personal references, cultural influences, and craft traditions in an art practice that includes painting, painted ceramics, and constructed furniture.

The exhibition explores the lasting impact of women artists and designers on midcentury Modernism through making groundbreaking commercial and industrial designs, maintaining craft traditions, and incorporating new aesthetics into fine art.

Since the mid-1990s, she has used lesbian feminist and craft traditions to investigate systems of power in institutions of art and education.

Since the mid-1990s, she has used lesbian feminist and craft traditions to in...

Drawing inspiration from her own experience, including the Southern California surf culture of her childhood, the San Francisco beatnik era of her teen years, the punk and new wave music scenes of 1970s and early 80s New York, and her formal training as a sculptor and ceramist, Heilmann incorporates a complex amalgam of personal references, cultural influences, and craft traditions in an artistic practice that includes painting, painted ceramics, and constructed furniture.

Craftsmanship has a strong presence in Nepomuceno's work through techniques inspired by Brazilian craft traditions or partnership with a group of Brazilian women who weave carnauba straw.

HONOLULU, HAWAI`I — Japanese contemporary artists are increasingly inspired and informed by historical art and craft traditions.

Exhibition curator John Szostak, who is an associate professor of Japanese art history at UHM, selected the six artists for their shared interest in the history and technical mastery of Japan's rich pre-20th-century art and craft traditions, from painting and textiles to lacquer and wood carving.

Walter Oltmann's Bristle Disguise uses woven alumnium and razor wire to reference local craft traditions.

Active since the mid-1980s, Apfelbaum's practice is notable for her use of found materials associated with craft traditions to create sculptural objects and sprawling, floor - based installations.

Harmony Hammond's work demonstrates the artist's interest in modernist abstraction and female craft traditions.

Made from a variety of natural materials — including wood, tar, rawhide, and stone — Martin Puryear's distinctive sculptures combine modernist geometry with international craft traditions.

It was there she was inspired to incorporate non-Western craft traditions inter her European modernist designs.

Another striking aspect of contemporary Japanese art is its rootedness in national cultural and craft traditions.

See extraordinary pieces from a diverse range of Aboriginal artists working with expanded notions of textile and craft traditions.

Alasdair McLuckie has been exposed to antique art and craft traditions from a young age: his father was an amateur anthropologist who has a collection of ethnographic artefacts derived largely from North America.

Taking its inspiration from the Robert Altman film of the same name, 3 Women at The Landing features three female artists who engage with craft traditions to create different visions of the feminine.

These stylized landscapes are inspired by stage sets, movies, folklore, and craft traditions.

A pioneer of infusing abstract painting with influences from craft traditions and popular culture — especially rock music and California beach culture — Heilmann is one of the most important yet under - recognized artists working today.

The exhibition showcases decades of Heilmanns and argues that her «dazzling» work fuses the autobiographical, the formal, pop culture and craft traditions.

The exhibition will feature over twenty of Puryear's works from the late 1970s to today, highlighting the impeccable hand - crafting skills he developed while travelling to Africa, Sweden and Japan, where he learned local craft traditions and wood - working techniques.

As a project that emerged from Buenfeld's curatorial residency with AIT last year, and her ongoing research, «At the still point of the turning world...» is a selection of works that proposes questions about sculptural and dynamic form with a particular focus on dance and ceramics - two craft traditions with a strong historical and contemporary presence in Japan.

He often works in various craft traditions with simple materials when he makes pictures and installations in which colonialism and its consequences are explored, and topics such as South Africa and Zimbabwe's history and contemporary are dealt with alongside themes such as migration, national identity and borders.

Mary Heilmann Artist Brush Value: $ 500 Starting Bid: $ 250 Mary Heilmann (1940 --RRB- is one of the preeminent artists of her generation - a pioneering painter whose work injects abstraction with elements from popular culture and craft traditions.

In her practice, she asks: How do we read visual threads across history from antiquity and the Renaissance, to female and craft traditions of art - making, to archetypes in folklore and theater?

Her large, often spiral - shaped works are inspired by old Brazilian craft traditions.

The San Francisco - based artist playfully draws from American craft traditions, country - western aesthetics and classic European fables to create worlds reminiscent of folk stories and fairytales.

«Theaster's bringing art into a neighborhood where there's not a lot of resources devoted to those sorts of questions, and he's bringing labor and craft traditions into the National Gallery,» said Sarah Newman, the curator of the National Gallery exhibition.

He traveled primarily to developing nations and Communist countries, in defiance of then - current American Cold War policies, learning craft traditions from the host country's artists and artisans.

Long was also selected to receive a Fulbright award to study how the enduring craft traditions of Hungarian ceramics influence contemporary art practices in Hungary.

Is she inspired by craft traditions and a black president — or by one cliché of contemporary art after another?

Is it decorative craft traditions or a raised fist?

In conversation with both abstraction and craft traditions associated with the decorative to build a lexicon of community language, the work expands sculpturally on the foundation of known forms in Queer history.

Her large, often spiral - shaped works are inspired by old Brazilian craft traditions and traditional bartering culture.

Stuart's hand - rendered sculptures are suggestive of craft traditions, such as -LSB-...]

Referencing Mexican craft traditions, the hanging works, called Traditional Objects (2010 — ongoing), are used as backdrops in performances by Natural Information Society, an avant - garde music ensemble in which Alvarado plays harmonium and percussion.

A pioneer of infusing abstract painting with influences from popular culture and craft traditions, Mary Heilmann (b. 1940) is one of the most important yet least recognized artists in the United States today.

These artists aimed to create positive images of women through tactics like role reversal, recovering female artists from history, and validating women's craft traditions.

This exhibition, the first mid-career survey of Pepe's work, examines how the artist often plays with feminist and craft traditions to counter patriarchal notions of recognized or accepted forms of art making.

[3] Looking at Pindell's careful handiwork and the breathtaking consistencies drawn up out of the foundations of an untitled work from 1975, it seems right to align these pictures with the utopian concerns of craft traditions, processes built on mending fragments, embroidering flourishes, and suturing gaps with care that only human touch can provide.

As a sculptor and performance artist who works both in the studio and out in the community, Cabrera seeks to create work that explores issues such as immigration, fair labor, craft traditions, and economic empowerment.

They do not recover native or craft traditions, like Brooklyn's Sackler Center and many others.

Both the terra cotta pots in which the plants are displayed and the Tenango de Doria embroidery applied honor the work's cultural connections with craft traditions in Mexico.

Rojas uses aspects of folk art and craft traditions in fairy - tale narratives that range from the wisdom and mystique of female sages to the relationships between animals and humans.

Hurtado Segovia's art is rooted in craft traditions with themes of art history, personal anecdotes, Christian theology, and ethnographic motifs.

This informal conversation between London - based artist Francis Upritchard and German - born jeweller Karl Fritsch will explore the artist's unique sculptural language and the multiplicity of artisan and craft traditions Upritchard has incorporated into her practice, including collaborations with UK fashion house Peter Pilotto, Karl Fritsch and Italian designer Martino Gamper.

The artist constructs exaggerated depictions of female bodies using a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, traversing different artistic and craft traditions.

Its tightness suggests a slightly daft woman who could not let go, and today one associates outsider art with both craft traditions and obsessive drawing, as well as her concentration on people and expressionless faces.