Sentences with phrase «drawings as points of departure»

However, artists actually executed these works — as well as biblical and mythological subjects — in studios, often using drawings as points of departure.

His current exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield features 20 pieces that have all been created in the last two years, addressing the body and transformation via a versatile practice that encompasses sculpture, installation and painting, almost always using drawing as the point of departure.

Using drawing as her point of departure, Cinto evokes mesmerizing environments including turbulent seascapes, swirling rainstorms and celestial skies.

Not exact matches

Taking Théodore Géricault's iconic 1818 — 19 painting as its point of departure, and working from photographs taken by his wife Elfie Semotan, «The Raft of the Medusa» eventually came to include over a dozen each of paintings, drawings, and lithographs, as well as an eight - by - fifteen - foot rug that depicts the raft's schematic layout.

Drawing from the British context as point of departure, and the wave of exhibitions by Black British artists — highlighting the recurrence of the issues they addressed in the 1980s and demonstrating the continued relevance of their art to this day — this project is the result of ongoing conversations with artists who have always been alert to the fragility of democracies and concerned with the pockets of exclusions that exist in the so - called «Free World».

Wiley, as is central to his practice, draws on the historically Eurocentric Western art canon as a point of departure for Trickster.

Appropriating iconic American cartoon characters as her point of departure, Pensato's gestural paintings and drawings flicker in the liminal space between menacing abstraction and comedic representation: Batman is depicted as a hollow, deliquescent mask, Bart Simpson peers through abraded skin, and Felix the Cat is rendered as a decapitated head.

I'm excited to be a part of the Pencil / Line / Eraser exhibition at Carroll / Fletcher gallery in London, «a group show surveying recent works in expanded drawing which use paper and line as a point of departure.»

Whether in service to narrative or as the departure point for abstraction, visual expression drawn from nature is the inescapable DNA of the works on view.

Rich in detail, his obsessively worked drawings take, as their point of departure, the Southern California punk - rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the do - it - yourself aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement — but they have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary.

Taking this premise as his point of departure, Rondinone creates mixed - media installations that run the gamut of artistic genres and techniques — including landscape drawing, abstract painting, photographic portraiture, realist sculpture, and video — and reflect the belief that

Also taking a critique of popular culture as her point of departure, Glasgow - based Rachel Maclean's hyper - saturated videos unfold narratives through characters — often played by the artist — that quote classic films such as The Wizard of Oz but also draw from horror movies, talent shows and TV advertising.

Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise - en - scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those very cinematic techniques.

Her wall installations, comics, charcoal drawings, and mixed media works on paper often take historical and mythic texts as inspiration and points of departure to complicate received ideas of iconic female forms.

Curated by Michaelis lecturer Fabian Saptouw, «Context» draws together artists who use the book - object as a conceptual point of departure for the exploration of the printed text.

They often served the minimalists as the point of departure — but also the destination — of their new strategies, which they articulated in concepts, diagrams, sketches or accompanying preliminary drawings.

The exhibition draws on Jakobson's distinctive ideas on the poetic function of language as a departure point for considering forms of expression situated beyond semantic clarity.

Opening: «Bjarne Melgaard: Psychopathological Notebook» at Karma Based on a seminal work by Karel Appel, one of the founders of the European avant - garde art movement Cobra, artist Bjarne Melgaard's Psychopathological Notebook presents a series of drawings and collages that takes a facsimile of Mr. Appel's 1950 eponymous notebook as the point of departure for a number of wild interventions.

Toyin Odutola Talks About Her Work in New Mexico An artist - in - residence at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico, Toyin Odutola spoke about her work — pen - and - ink drawings that focus on the blackness of skin color as a point of departure to explore matters of identity and experience — at at the campus musuem on Sept. 18.

Carroll / Fletcher is to present a group show surveying recent works in expanded drawing which use paper and line as a point of departure.

The exhibition will draw from the collections of both institutions and with Southeast Asia as a point of departure, looking at how artists in the region engaged with modernism and the role of art within societies undergoing change and modernisation.

Taking Dr. Schapiro's useful distinction as a point of departure, we may discern other characteristics of the two generic types of abstract painting and draw some conclusions about the differing viewpoints, and human values, supporting each.

Barnette uses identity as a point of departure by making graphite pencil drawings and photographs that track her family linage.

Carroll / Fletcher is pleased to present a group show surveying recent works in expanded drawing which use paper and line as a point of departure.