Sentences with phrase «explore issues of»

Araki, Nobuyoshi (b. 1940) Controversial Japanese postmodernist photographer specializing in erotic imagery involving female nudes, in order to explore issues of death and other social taboos.

Wodiczko, Krzysztof (b. 1943) Polish artist who specializes in large - scale outdoor slide projections on buildings and monuments to explore issues of democracy and human rights.

Thomas is best known for her bedazzled painted portraits of women that explore issues of beauty, race, femininity, identity and power.

A group show brings together works from the 1960s to the present in ways that explore issues of environment and the ways in which humans shape it.

Eleanor Antin, Barbara Kruger, Faith Ringgold, Martha Rosler, Miriam Shapiro, Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems have created an assortment of works in varied media that explore the issues of identity, gender and race.

119 STRANGERS showcases recent paintings by Kasten Searles that explore the issues of of privacy, public image, and self - surveillance via social media.

Some of Mr. DiCillo's surrealist - style sculptures and collages made from found objects explore issues of contemporary politics, while others are fused with absurdist humor.

The discovery of ganguro, which translates as «blackface,» propelled Rozeal to explore issues of race, gender, and class in her work.

Since then, they have regularly produced work that employs found images from American mass media to explore issues of sexuality, bigotry and the fallout from the AIDS crisis.

As Basquiat's career evolved, he turned to the creation of multi-panel canvases, paintings with exposed stretcher supports, while continuing to explore issues of racial identity.

Her figurative, still life and landscape paintings explore issues of role identification.

Their art installations often explore issues of duality, authenticity, cultural geography, and migration.

How much abstract sculpture shuts out the issue of space, though, preferring to explore issues of form and materiality?

An emotionally charged exhibition curated by the late Noah Davis in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles brings together works that explore issues of race and violence.

Andrea Ray is a Brooklyn - based artist whose recent installations explore issues of subjectivity and community through, for example, proposed forms of alternative living and utopian communities.

Over the last decade, the American artist Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976) has become known for powerful works that explore issues of identity, media, race, and popular culture.

Her other works also explore issues of gender and female identity in contemporary Islamic culture.

Multidisciplinary Emirati artist, curator and writer Ebtisam Abdulaziz incorporates her unique perspective on mathematics and the structures of systems to explore issues of identity and culture through installations, performance pieces and works on paper.

The Los Angeles artist is transforming the museum project room into a stage for collective works that explore issues of migration and colonization.

The medium is modern, luminous, simple and direct, making it perfect for painters like the Australian - born abstract artist Brent Hallard and the French abstract painter Frédéric Prat, who explore issues of color, surface, precision and intent.

In Griffin's latest exhibition, «a hole - in - the - wall country,» he continued to explore issues of identity and race in subtle and personal ways.

Her contemporary work, which includes films, essays and lectures, explore issues of media technology and globalization with a focus on the proliferation of image migration and image politics.

Imaginary Coordinates, published on the occasion of an exhibition originating at Chicago's Spertus Museum, juxtaposes the museum's extensive collection of antique Holy Land maps with contemporary artwork by Israeli and Palestinian women (including Ayreen Anastas, Yael Bartana, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Sigalit Landau, Enas Mutthafar, Michal Rovner and Shirley Shor) to explore issues of national identity, borders and the critical disparity between maps and lived experience.

Opening: Emma Amos at Ryan Lee Ryan Lee in this show surveys the art of Emma Amos, an artist and educator known for her vivid figurative works that explore issues of African American identity and narrative, often through the lens of both art history and popular culture.

Yinka Shonibare's works explore the issues of postcolonialism, national and racial identity, and class through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and film.

In recreating the modern experience of fragmentation and spectacle, both art and film explore issues of human perception and understanding of reality that were part of the intellectual climate of their day.»

In this solo endeavor Stoller continues using clay as a vehicle to explore issues of idealized beauty, vanity and the subjugation of the female body using porcelain as her primary media, a material inextricably linked to desire, secrecy and commodification.

Producing work in a variety of media, including sculpture, prose, painting and installation, Enrique Martínez Celaya interweaves nature and autobiography to explore issues of authenticity and identity.

The new Australian Pavilion opens with an exhibition by Fiona Hall who, like Sarah Lucas, often transforms everyday objects, in this case to explore issues of globalisation and environmental decay (see interview, pp. 36 — 37, May 2015).

I explore issues of violence, social taboos, political conflicts and human behaviors by deconstructing iconic cultural imagery as a form of critique and analysis.

Spread across five floors and 80,000 sq ft of Howick Place, HS Projects brings together a diverse line - up of emerging and established artists to explore issues of the decorative and the functional through a mixed range of media, proposing new ways of re-considering our environment and social structures.

She uses Arab Andalusian geometrical motifs and rosaces — called Fatima — to explore issues of contrast, such as light / shade, female / male and inside / outside.

Together, they explore issues of representation, value and exchange that have both personal and global impact.

Thomas's work grows from a long study of art history, drawing inspiration from the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life, as well as from contemporary popular culture, the imagery of which she uses to explore issues of identity and race, as well as beauty and the self.

They are pioneers in the field of digital imaging and post-photography, using diverse media to explore the issues of our time.

From makeup to celebrity culture, these artists mine «girly» motifs — often ignored or dismissed as flippant and unserious by the art world — to explore issues of gendered expectations and pressures women face through representations of women in the media and culture at large.

En Route is a community - based public art project that creates meaningful, aesthetically imaginative, high quality, text - based murals that explore issues of access, mobility, and public transportation.

«For his hotly anticipated upcoming show at Sundaram Tagore, Barry Freedland will further his use of technology to explore the issues of artistic agency and human identity in our increasingly tech - enhanced world.»

She uses bananas, kebabs, vegetables and more to explore issues of gender politics, making a connection between the treatment and consumption of food and the presentation and sexualisation of women in contemporary society.

These works by mapping the element of time and duration explore issues of fabrication, transportation, painting, assembly, disassembly and the integration of the work's elements into the public realm.

Hinkle's interdisciplinary artistic practice invites participation to explore issues of identity, culture, and geography.

Why do so many women use the genre of photographic self portraiture to explore issues of identity and race?

I see myself as essentially a figurative painter in the European tradition, attempting to maintain my craft at the highest level, using paint to explore issues of truth, meaning and value.

Two gelatin silver prints by South African artist Zanele Muholi explore issues of gender, race, and identity.

Among Brielmaier's duties will be to collaborate with Berry and the Tang Museum team on realizing critical aspects of the College's $ 1.2 - million Mellon Foundation initiative to strengthen the ways the Museum uses its collection to explore issues of identity and race, and to support interdisciplinary research in this area.

His painting, sculpture, installation, collage, video, and photography explore issues of race and history.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present «Bright Future: New Designs in Glass,» an exhibition of sculpture, tableware, and lighting designs by American and international artists and firms that explore issues of sustainability, the manipulation of light,...

21c Museum is North America's only collecting museum dedicated solely to art of the 21st century, and its current and upcoming exhibitions explore issues of our day, ranging from the construction of personal and group identity, to race and gender, celebrity, nature and technoculture.

Many of Ottinger's films explore issues of metamorphosis and inclusion.

Abidin's art uses various media such as videos, video installations, multi media sculptures and sound based installations and photography to explore the issues of the contemporary world that we are living in.