Sentences with phrase «environmental artist known»

Kathleen Vance is an American environmental artist known for her Traveling Landscape, series of miniaturized living landscapes in travel - worn suitcases.

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It's actually enriching as an artist, no matter what it is, whether environmental issues or social justice issues, equality or education, etc..

David Ireland (1930 - 2009) was an artist and architect whose best - known work is his own house at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco — at once an environmental artwork, social sculpture, and his residence for 30 years.

Many of the best - known artists from Glasgow emerged from the Environmental Art Department at the city's art school (where, as it happens, I also teach).

Etty Yaniv 117 Grattan Str / Morgan Ave Stop This Tel Aviv born artist is most known for her large and immersive environmental installations.

Known as one of the Los Angeles artists who, in the»50s, pushed clay beyond crafts and into the Abstract Expressionist arena, John Mason set clay aside in the mid»70s and soon began stacking firebricks on museum floors (the «Hudson River Series,» 1978) and installing site - specific environmental sculptures.

Louise Nevelson, a pioneer creator of environmental sculpture who became one of the world's best - known artists, died Sunday evening at her home on Spring Street in Manhattan.

Often associated with the concept - based land artists and early environmental activists of the 1960s and 1970s, Denes is known for her multidisciplinary practice and visionary explorations in philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, science, history, and performance.

No longer simply observers and documenters of the natural world, new groups of contemporary artists and interdisciplinary practitioners now engage critically with environmental and social issues in the field.

Straus is known for his majestic and luminous depictions of the landscape, which are often punctuated with the artist's deep concern about social and environmental issues.

Responsible for commissioning new sculpture, the Trust enabled such well - known artists as Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker and Katarina Fritsch to produce site specific works dealing with aesthetic, social and environmental issues.

Mrs. Nevelson, whose pioneering environmental sculptures made her one of the best - known artists of the 20th century, died on April 17, 1988.

The 1960s also witnessed a wholly new type of plastic art known as Land Art (Earthworks, or Environmental art), practised by plastic artists like Robert Smithson (1938 - 73), and Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956).

Environmental installations arrive from artists across the decades — from Modernist - influenced pieces by well known Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz - Diez to ambient zones of colour by James Turrell, and further works from Anthony McCall and Ann Veronica Janssens among others.

Charting a wide range of ways that contemporary artists from Africa are responding to environmental conditions and their own situations to make art, Environment and Object includes sculpture, photography, painting, and video by well - known artists from Africa and contemporary African artists living abroad.

The artist is known for his sublime depictions of natural imagery that communicate social and environmental concerns and make observations on how humans have altered the landscape of the earth.

Among this year's draws: Ballroom Marfa is bringing internationally known environmental artist Agnes Denes» «The Pyramids of Conscience,» a trio of structures filled with liquids such as water from the Rio Grande and crude oil.

Recently, I had the opportunity to drive up to Dia: Beacon with an interesting pair of travelers: the man Art in America called «the most powerful and controversial environmental artist NY has ever known» the infamous master builder of New York's infrastructure, the late Robert Moses, and that ever elusive land artist, the late Robert Smithson.

Collaborating with well - known manga artists, Japan's Environmental Ministry has collected drawing from all over the country.