Sentences with phrase «ephemeral work so»

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For someone who spends all of their time in a very tactile, analog world, digital communication can seem ephemeral and fleeting.It's tempting to abandon the medium as so much dross and go back to doing things the way that they've always been done: send out mailings, find an artist's representative, and hope your gallery works out.

The critic - curator Dave Hickey once called Tuttle's work precious because the objects — a palm - size paper cube, a plywood panel eleven inches square — are so small, seemingly delicate and ephemeral.

But as SAMA's visitor notice makes clear, although the seventy - five works on view were translated from ephemeral sand and body paintings, they were done so for the express purpose of participating in the international contemporary art market.

Jessica Stockholder's work is difficult to talk about because it eschews so many of the typical classifications we use to discuss contemporary art: «installation,» «site - specific,» «ephemeral.»

«There are a few artists who are making live action that is based in sculpture, but what sets him apart is his purist insistence on the immateriality — or ephemeral materiality — of the work, so it crystallizes and disperses again, so there is no trace left at all.»

Just as the distribution and presentation sites she has used (e.g. maga - zines, posters) are characterized by a certain transience and intensified circulation, so too Kruger often insists on the ephemeral physical status of her works, since her wall and large - scale spatial installations are usually destroyed at the end of an exhibition.

Paul Thek was a practicing Catholic and renegade homosexual, a lover of the photographer Peter Hujar and companion to Susan Sontag (who dedicated «Against Interpretation» to Thek), a sculptor and creator of immersive environments so devoted to the ephemeral in art that his major works were lost and his reputation eclipsed within his lifetime.