These works are characterized by striking — and, ultimately, enduringly influential — formal innovations, including the appropriation of unconventional industrial materials like latex and rope, organic and natural materials like saplings and earth, and
ephemeral materials like wax and paper.
Sebastian Buczek who also runs the alternative record label altanova creates eroding sounds with
ephemeral materials like wax, platic, glass and chocolate.
Not exact matches
Incorporating
materials like Styrofoam, animal bones and clay, Bhabha creates figures that feel unstable and
ephemeral.
«It's
like walking into a painting,» describes Evans, anticipating how Montserrat Gallery will evolve into a «landscape» of
ephemeral and factual
materials over the course of his three week residency.
Using
ephemeral and found
materials, the artists represented in All of this and nothing turn what may seem
like «nothing» into artworks exploring very big ideas — what it means to be an artist, to understand the world, and how to communicate through the shifting life of an object.
Using
ephemeral and found
materials, the artists represented in All of this and nothing (p. 4 — 5) turn what may seem
like «nothing» into artworks exploring very big ideas — what it means to be an artist, to understand the world, and how to communicate through the shifting life of an object.
Stone Walls and Copper Veils: Architect Wendy Joseph
likes to temper weighty
materials with
ephemeral, dynamic ones in her designs, which include a Holocaust memorial, a women's museum, and a hotel within a Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper Valerie Gladstone
With these elements, artists
like Hiroshi Sugimoto, Luisa Lambri, Melanie Schiff, Walead Beshty, and Adam Ekberg create
ephemeral works that explore the foundation of the photographic image: the play of light through half opened shutters; haunting seascapes reduced to a gradation of elemental
material; and luminous circles of light formed by the interplay of sunlight and the camera's lens.
Unlike the work of minimalist artists
like Donald Judd, who embraced industrial
materials and fabrication techniques, LeWitt's wall works are
ephemeral, and, when a temporary exhibition of them ends, the walls they're placed onto are simply painted over or demolished.
Andy Goldsworthy uses natural
materials like sticks, leaves, bark, and even snow to create
ephemeral works of art in natural settings.