In works such as «Medium 4 (II),» (2010), Rogan implements hand -
cut wood sculptures to reference this idea of temporality within an art career's shelf - life.
In work ranging from photographs,
cut wood sculpture, prints, and billboards, Montgomery foregrounds poetic verses that challenge the viewer to rethink his conceptions of the world, or paint an evocative picture of another world.
Not exact matches
When I saw his architectonic relief paintings of the early seventies with new materials like
wood, felt, and different levels, slopes, and planes they struck me by their relationship to Picasso's Synthetic Cubism and Picasso's Cubist
sculpture and Jackson Pollocks»
cut out paintings like Out of the Web.
Her best - known work, A Fashionable Marriage — a
sculpture made from
wood cut - outs and featuring figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan — was made in 1986.
Each
sculpture is constructed pixel - by - pixel with hand -
cut, hand - dyed strips of
wood in an overtly laborious process that is in direct contrast to the slipperiness and speed of the digital world.
Whereas later
wood works, including Cedar Piece 1959/1964 and Secant 1977, are not
cut into or drastically altered but rather are arranged by the artist, these early
sculptures stand out as singular works.
He later said of this
sculpture: «the
wood was better before I
cut it than after.
Sculptures such as Number 175T present a combination of the
cut and tightly fitted
wood pieces for which Drew is known with the sprawling lines of natural root forms, represented in flat areas painted in white.
Working in a range of mediums such as digital animation, slide projections, light boxes, paper
cut - outs, collage, print, and
wood sculptures, Ezawa maintains a keen awareness of how images shape our experience and memory of events.
By manipulating the
wood and other objects to weather and age them, Drew's awe - inspiring
sculptures reveal the artist's intense attention to shaping,
cutting, building, and working his pieces through his own material language.
The exhibition pairs stand - alone
sculptures and wall reliefs with installation elements, such as functional seating made out of hand -
cut wood and black wooden wall sconces holding mint green candles.
There were many surprising passes: Lot 87 was a thunderbolt design of fluorescent tubes by Dan Flavin that was one of his finest works in that it was an appropriate concept; Lots 122 and 130, large and excellent paintings by Sandro Chia (b. 1946); Lots 203 and 205, a good painting and a superb
sculpture by Nancy Graves (1940 - 1995); Lot 223, a good gouache on paper by Sam Francis (1923 - 1994); Lot 242, a very good
wood and paper collage by Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); Lots 279, 281A, 293, and 309, works by Andy Warhol, and Lot 299, «Fast Sketch Still Life With Abstract Painting,» a 60 by 90 inch oil on
cut - out aluminum by Tom Wesselman (b. 1931), shown below.
Work No. 1102 can also be compared to Creed's stacked sculptural works including Work No. 67 (As many 1» squares as are necessary
cut from 1» masking tape and piled up, adhesive sides down, to form a 1» cubic stack) 1992, and to later
sculptures such as Work No. 396 2005, which consists of piled up planks of
wood, and Work No. 916 2008 and Work No. 998 2009, which consist of stacked boxes and chairs respectively.
Arturo Herrera's multilayered body of work includes collages, painted
wood sculptures, photographs,
cut felt pieces and wall works.
Crystal Wagner is set to open a new series of
cut - paper and
wood sculptures at Allouche Gallery in NYC.
The use of natural materials is seen in Carol Bove's open - form
sculpture in petrified
wood and steel, Jeppe Hein's series of «rooms» shaped by water, and Richard Long's 12 - foot - diameter installation in Dartmoor Granite, while Ursula von Rydingsvard's composition of
cut, stacked and
sculptured cedar beams transforms solid material into gestural form.
In the 1920s and 1930s, direct carving —
cutting figures out of a block of stone or a lump of
wood — was seen as the purest, most challenging way to make a
sculpture.
Von Rydingsvard creates her work from commercially milled cedar beams that are marked, shaped by
cuts into the
wood, stacked, then glued together; these forms may also be used to cast
sculptures in materials including urethane resin, copper, and bronze.
Using the techniques developed in creating the windows and inspired by art history, engineering, literature, and mathematics, Standley has ambitiously created Daphne, a massive 17 foot
sculpture incorporating
cut paper temples integrated into the top of a fallen tree constructed from reclaimed
wood from Virginia.
Jeff Petersen, paintings,
sculpture, and
wood cut prints.
Areas of instruction include painting (realism to abstract); drawing (life drawing, anatomy and design);
sculpture (clay,
wood carving, stone carving, assemblage and casting); printmaking (etching,
wood block, silkscreen, lithography); mixed media (3D compositions); welding (plasma
cutting, Oxy - acetylene, MIG and TIG welding); bronze casting (lost wax process) and literature of art.
In addition to making
cut - out
wood and steel panels that functioned as monochromatic paintings, he composed works from two or more overlapping canvases, effectively creating a hybrid of painting and
sculpture.
Leonardo Drew is an artist known for his large wall - mounted
sculptures composed of jagged tree trunks layered with thousands of segments of
cut wood.
«By manipulating the
wood and other objects to weather and age them, Drew's awe - inspiring
sculptures reveal the artist's intense attention to shaping,
cutting, building, and working his pieces through his own material language,» explains a press release for Drew's eponymous solo exhibition at Talley Dunn Gallery this past fall.
Accompanying the metal
sculptures will be photo installations, paintings, prints,
wood cut prints and other
sculptures depicting heavy metal imagery and music.
Ben Butler's latest installation, Unbounded, is a light, meticulously - constructed
sculpture made from around 10,000 hand -
cut poplar sticks — a stylistic departure from the dense
wood pieces
Artist Claude Zeras has created deceptively reductive
sculptures that appear to be ordinary pieces of
cut wood leaning against the gallery walls.
Kota Ezawa's diverse projects take the form of digital animations, slide projections, lightboxes, paper
cut - outs, intaglio etchings, ink drawings and
wood sculptures.
Focusing on the handmade detail, including lino
cuts,
wood block and silkscreen, to gold plated
sculptures, cast resin, vegetable prints, and digital prints.
Living and working in Philadelphia, Hilary White creates large three - dimensional «
sculptures» formed from elaborate hand
cut wood, brightly colored vinyl «ribbons» and beautifully painted animals.
Yong Ho Ji's life - like
sculptures are sleekly muscled with hand -
cut rubber strips, while steel,
wood, soil and styrofoam are used for custom molds and structural support.
Wooden
sculptures carry a vintage command, where a shape is
cut out of a
wood log, for the purpose of decoration.