Choosing
everyday consumer objects as his content, he challenges their power by denying them any three - dimensional life.
Adam McEwen appropriates vernacular forms, from text messages and obituaries to
everyday consumer objects, manipulating familiar items and repurposing them in new, unexpected contexts.
Not exact matches
By revealing the numerous emotions inherent within found
everyday objects, Ward's works examine issues surrounding race, poverty, and
consumer culture.
By revealing the numerous emotions found within
everyday objects, his works examine issues surrounding race, poverty, and
consumer culture.
F l o M a a k digitally manipulates his photographs to introduce images of zebras and polar bears into man - made artificial shelters, while Sonia Shiel «s sculptural installation of
everyday objects and materials combines elements of the natural environment and contemporary
consumer society.
Wesselmann never liked his inclusion in American Pop Art, pointing out how he made an aesthetic use of
everyday objects and not a reference to them as
consumer objects: «I dislike labels in general and «Pop» in particular, especially because it overemphasizes the material used.
Strongly influenced by Dada and its emphasis on appropriation and
everyday objects, artists increasingly worked with collage,
consumer products, and a healthy dose of irony.
Recalling Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures and Arman's
consumer good Accumulations, Cárdenas's assemblages arrange
everyday objects, such as packaged food and colorful plastic toys, into suggestive compositions evocative of internal sex organs or genitalia peeking out from behind unzipped pants.
His work explores
consumer culture and how we repurpose the material world, both natural and artificial, via sculptures and collages created with found
objects and the detritus of his
everyday life — shopping receipts, ticket stubs, stray plastic bags, leftover hotel shampoo bottles as well as natural elements he finds outdoors, like marble and stones.
His work features imagery of
everyday and
consumer objects, such as paper clips, light bulbs, and champagne flutes, found in desolate urban settings as a reference to his upbringing, but also to broader universal ideas including desire, luxury, and the influx of consumerism into South African society.
Fascinated by the
everyday detritus of life, Upritchard first became known for recycling
consumer and domestic debris into ritualistic
objects.
The American artist assembles on stands kitsch
consumer items, in the process changing
everyday things to works of art and examining ideas about how we collect, classify and display
objects.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE David Baskin, Seasonal Variations at Freight + Volume September 24, 2009 — October 31, 2009 / Reception: Thursday, September 24, 6 — 8 pm Negotiating the uncertain border between the art
object and consumerism, David Baskin's recent sculpture explores the underlying agendas inherent in the «formal» properties of
everyday consumer goods.
Conrad Bakker makes carved and painted sculptures of
everyday objects and places them in
consumer contexts and / or gallery exhibitions to reveal and critically comment upon the political economies and relational networks between persons and things.
Increasingly, the artist has been incorporating common
consumer objects into his works by physically attaching them to the surface of his paintings as inquiries into how painting and sculpture can relate to
everyday objects.
Adam McEwen (1965) is an English conceptual artist, living and working in New York City, best known for his artworks that appropriate vernacular forms of
everyday consumer products and
objects and repurpose them in new, unexpected contexts.
Text in art evolved in 1960s conceptual works, in which the word was a necessary part of art and Pop art; artists engaged with the artistic value of trivial,
everyday elements like advertising, commonplace
objects and
consumer goods.
LOOMIA, a technology company adding intelligence to
everyday objects, today announced a partnership with Storj Labs, a decentralized cloud storage provider, to host
consumer...