Applying the strategies of mass production to finely
crafted handmade objects, McCollum carried modernist reductionism to its parodic extreme by determining and performing the nominal means by which painting, photography, and sculpture are recognized as such.
This month features the work of Angela Davis Fegan, an artist who
crafts handmade objects as a way to reflect upon the ephemeral and intangible nature of digital media.
Not exact matches
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Object.
When we think of
craft, we tend to think of expensive
handmade objects, often considered anachronisms in a world of mass production and mass consumption.
Huge spring and fall
crafts fairs, along with smaller ones during the year, offer the finest in
handmade objects.
A
craft store across the way was filled with
handmade objects, clothing, wool and eco conscious Christmas decorations.
The 7th Annual Wooden Wonderland Holiday
Craft Show and Sale will feature local artisans and vendors offering
handmade wooden
objects as well as other creative items.
Alexandra Bircken is an artist who has attracted interest for her sculptures and installations that combine knitted elements with organic and lowly materials such as hair, leather, dried grass, latex and twigs, creating amulet - like
objects with an arts and
crafts aesthetic that reflect her background in fashion design and an interest in the radical aspects of
handmade culture.
McElheny creates finely
crafted,
handmade glass
objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory.
Samare produces its own portfolio of
objects entirely
handmade in Canada based on contemporary reinterpretations of indigenous
crafts.
Without today's increasingly active
craft - oriented community, products that we take for granted, such as numerous utilitarian
objects built from
handmade tools, rather than via machine or sweatshop, would have disappeared.
Focusing on
objects and structures which are «
handmade», using traditional and more ad - hoc
craft techniques, the works featured are often created using a simple, repetitive action, from crochet, plaiting, weaving and winding to stringing, shredding, binding and crumpling.
RD: Everyday
objects,
handmade items and
craft have been themes in my work for several years.
His meticulous
craft maintains the primacy of the
handmade object - through which the artist retains a tangible presence.
The placement of these
objects in the installation instigates questions around the exclusion of
craft and the
handmade from fine art discourses.
Elsewhere in the exhibition, Robert Gober's «dumb» piece of Plywood — a
handmade object laboriously
crafted to imitate a commercially available readymade — appears next to a stack of chairs by former Gober assistant Banks Violette.
That said, it is as if almost no one knows how to create
handmade objects anymore: the tradition of
craft has been lost.
Craft artists create
handmade objects, such as pottery, glassware, textiles, and other
objects that are designed to be functional.