Sentences with phrase «cultural mythologies»

From the spiritual significance of East Asian mountain peaks to the rugged sublimity of the American West, Yi taps into cultural mythologies of landscape as a point of departure to address visual perception, physical experience, and cognitive uncertainty.

These are images that still reinforce toxic cultural mythologies about who and what is truly worthy.

«The End Is Here,» Shaw's first comprehensive New York museum show, will foreground the Los Angeles — based artist's longtime fascination with American cultural mythologies, marginal political histories, secondhand curiosities, and good old - fashioned religious fanaticism.

With an interest in cultural mythologies, narratives and everyday life, these materials served as a vital source in his practice.

To become aware of and to transcend cultural mythologies — to claim authorship of our individual stories — is the purpose of all forms of conscious parenting.

«Cultural mythologies strongly influence women's expectations about being pregnant.»

This set is similarly abridged, but rather than toying with familiar cultural mythology, the broad strokes here feel like the developer tip - toeing around spoilers.

Today, he continues to probe cultural mythologies and archetypes in various media, appropriating imagery from animated films, mail - order catalogues, modernist abstraction, and street graffiti to create an artistic lexicon that insistently collapses the boundaries between high and low.

Within the spectrum of queer performance, re-enactment has often been employed as a strategy for deconstructing histories of heteronormative oppression but it is also becoming a means for queer artists to critically engage with their own cultural mythologies and origin stories.

Ilit Azoulay's wall - based installation: «Shifting Degrees of Certainty», 2014, at the group exhibition «Ocean of Images», MoMA, NY, is reviewed by Studio International: «The result is a personal archive and an attendant cultural mythology that makes links between the networks and connections of the city and those of the brain's sensation, emotion and memory.

Some works in the show call up more recent cultural mythologies pervading black representation.

Through work in performance, video, and photography, this exhibition looks at six artists of color unsettling cultural mythologies and origin stories by using performance to look at history as fluid putting the past and present in dialogue with one another.

In a quote in the wall text, the artist says, «I began exploring black monochrome painting -LSB-...] to present black's intrinsically enigmatic beauty and infinite depth to refute all negative cultural mythologies about the color and ultimately to create work that innately expresses the all encompassing spirituality of life.»

Gert & Uwe Tobias make drawings and woodcuts, enlisting pictorial tropes to create a sense of time that fluctuates somewhere between archaic cultural mythology and contemporary visual culture.

A world - renowned artist, McCarthy works in a wide variety of media, often exploring the idea of the artist - protagonist through American cultural mythology.

Although previous studies have indicated that women primarily rely on their health care providers and pregnancy guides to find out what to expect when they're expecting, Bessett's research, titled, «Expecting Embodiment: Pregnancy Symptoms and the Cultural Mythologies of Pregnancy,» found that pregnant women are also strongly influenced about their pregnancies by common hearsay in their social circles and in entertainment media.

Let me repeat: leading puppies or shy or fearful dogs up to strangers to have the stranger give them a treat is a really bad idea that unfortunately has made its way into the cultural mythology about «how to introduce dogs to people.»

His criticisms reveal the tenuous truths of their original messages, asking his audience to consider the often unsavory consequences and legacies that lie in the shadows of our cultural mythologies.

The exhibition has been structured to replicate the complex way in which stories develop through geography, history, cultural mythology, fiction, and personal experience.

Articulated and composed designs, centred on additive dynamics (ordering, repetition, juxtaposition) and centrifugal forces, (explosions and dispersions starting from the centre) or centripetal ones (concentration, superimposition, joining), accompany the procedures drawing from a vast store of cultural mythologies and memories that are recaptured in photography, collage and plaster casts.

Identity and memory also play a role in this year's exhibition with works by Alicia Reyes McNamara addressing the changing identity of the Latino diaspora within the United States, and the fine line between the collective memory of a homeland and personal and cultural mythologies.

In Kent Monkman's first New York solo show, which closes this weekend at Sargent's Daughters, art history commingles with cultural mythology in a passion play about masculinity and belonging.

His late work, created between 1835 and 1850, articulated a radical vision that was heedless of public reaction, and explored such themes as the rise and fall of civilizations, the natural and industrial worlds, and religious and cultural mythology.

Becker is interested in these landscapes as an intersection of personal identity, cultural mythologies, and political power.