Not just for keeping track of important dates, this desk calendar
doubles as artwork.
As for any horse - riding saddles, bits, and wooden racquets,
they all double as artwork that add texture and dimension to the walls they decorate.
The best part, the colourful covers can
double as artwork in a small space.
Look for practical pieces that are already so unique, they can easily
double as artwork, such as this polished nickel drum shade.
Not exact matches
Tagashira pulls
double duty
as both director and character designer and took it upon herself to create designs that were both recognizable
as Ito's
artwork and easy to animate.
In the Museum's first use of a
double - sided frame, the exhibition presents verified Clyfford Still
artworks in juxtaposition with the undocumented painting's front composition,
as well
as other Still works that could relate to the painting's reverse composition.
Chicago - born artist Gates recently transformed a house in Chicago's derelict south side into an
artwork that
doubles as a community centre, while Paglen documents the hidden world of governmental surveillance, from drone bases to black sites.
«My
artworks draw from the uniquely shared history of code switching,
double - consciousness, and multiple narratives that people of African descent have inherited and are compelled to adopt
as a survival strategy for daily life.
Whether taking images of existing
artworks in the case of Louise Lawler, or challenging the verisimilar qualities of images propagated in the mass media in Richard Prince's case, each of the artists featured in
Double Take use photography
as a tool to re-frame and re-contextualise.
These paintings share a sensibility with the sculptures of Jessi Reaves, who customarily builds on found frames of chairs, couches, and shelves to create sculptural
artworks that
double as functional furniture.
Since his emergence in the 1990s, Rafael Lozano - Hemmer has mixed the seemingly disparate fields of architecture, digital media, robotics, medical science, and performance art into spectacular public
artworks; enormous temporary landscapes of light and rhythm that
double as platforms for public participation.
While the thread that weaves the myriad interdisciplinary artifacts on view in both iterations of Common Time is, of course, Cunningham's dance work, many of the objects within the exhibitions have the remarkable capacity to
double as compelling, self - reliant
artworks in their own right.
These
artworks manifest
as a
double layered painting where colorful mixtures of Japanese sumi ink, charcoal, and watercolor on the underside of the framed glass interacts through light and perspective with the complimentary painting beneath the glass.
An authentication card signed by Doug Aitken indicating the edition number is included along with: A 23» x 36»
double - sided poster with original
artwork by Doug Aitken; A 12» vinyl picture disc contains unreleased tracks by Broadcast and a live recording of Doug Aitken's original opera the handle comes up, the hammer comes down; A 96 - page visual diary of the making of the film including sketches, production photos, film stills, script fragments, and inspirational found images; Two flipbooks with motion sequences excerpted from the film and the film's projection of the MoMA facade; A triptych gatefold case contains a CD soundtrack that features the tracks on the picture disc plus tracks by Bibio, Ranphorynchus, Steve Roden, Tim Hecker, and Canyon Country; A DVD includes an edit of Sleepwalkers cut specifically for this box set and a street level walkthrough
as installed at the MoMA in NYC
I also quite liked that a couple of galleries had invested in beautiful packing crates that also
doubled as plinths and frames for the
artworks, such
as at Bacarelli Botticelli Gallery and Koetser Gallery.
MLYLT is a
double - entendre exhibition of
artwork, bodies, and sex, a «sexhibition,» if you will, that takes sexploitation and sex work
as its organizing themes without becoming exploitative itself in the process.
Still, he is alert to the
double standards at large in the room, the fact that,
as he discusses the canvas in his «philistine» cockney accent, using words no ruder than those appearing in the
artwork, he is in some way soiling the high - minded experience of the «real» art lovers.
Local firm Sim - plex (previously) renovated this 324 - square - foot public housing apartment unit, which
doubles as a personal gallery for a client who collects ceramic and sculptural
artwork.
Inspired by Japanese garden «moon gates», this impressive outdoor
artwork doubles as a lounge chair where people can sit and enjoy the landscape.
Hanging oversize alphabet blocks on the wall (tutorial here) and large boards covered with felt (tutorial here) for creative play also
doubles as focal
artwork for the room.
This tall leaning mirror pulls
double duty
as both mirror &
artwork in a small living room that could benefit from more light.
A vintage trunk that the owner's mother gave her
doubles as a characterful coffee table, picking up the black and gold tones in the
artworks.
This room - appropriate
artwork features three vintage faucets that
double as towel hooks when needed.