Sentences with phrase «dyed floor piece»

Polly Apfelbaum's synthetic velvet and fabric dyed floor piece, «Bubbles», recently acquired by the Princeton Art Museum, is currently installed and on view.

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Among the pieces displayed were plywood slats — angled pieces of wood that pointed, like split arrows, up to the ceiling; tin alphabet letters that appeared to have been hurled randomly at the wall but were actually carefully arranged (recently purchased by MoMA); cloth octagons in dyed pastels and white paper octagons glued to the wall; «string pieces,» or drawings dancing across the floor; and wire works.

Comprised of hundreds of individual dyed fabric pieces, Apfelbaum \'s installations reference modern art history — the 1950s poured works of Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, and Lynda Benglis \'s latex floor pieces.

The artist's signature fabric material, crushed 4 way stretch synthetic velvet, is used to produce the sprawling floor arrangements, with small pieces of the material meticulously cut into shapes around dye spots and clusters.

Apfelbaum's earlier floor - bound installations incorporate hundreds of pieces of velvet, hand - dyed in bold hues and often arranged in sprawling configurations that appear to be organically inspired or like abstract paintings that melted off the wall, forming vibrant puddles.

With awareness of how her floor - based installations draw from classic traditions of fine art, Apfelbaum defines staining and dyeing as an act of painting; cutting, a way of drawing in space; and assembling the cut pieces a sculptural practice.