Sentences with phrase «explore material transformation»

An interdisciplinary artist who frequently employs clay and clothing, Sew Hoy's sculptures persistently explore material transformation in structure, function, and inversion.

Not exact matches

The Refusal of Time (2012) is an all - enveloping, multi-sensory installation that explores the transformation of time into material objects, sound, images and mechanics.

Polke explored ideas of contamination and transformation, working with antiquated and sometimes poisonous pigments, extracting dye from boiled snails, and using materials as varied as gold leaf, meteorite powder, bubble wrap, potatoes, and soot.

His work explores materials and their transformation through processes such as chemical reactions or burning, as in his Combustione plastica (illustrated left, estimate: # 1,700,000 - 2,200,000).

Expanding on the intellectual investigation of his own paradoxical aesthetic concepts ofautoconstrucción and autodestrucción *, he likens his works to self - portraits of contradictory elements and explores the effects of improvisation, transformation, and decay on his materials and work.

Central in the exhibition is The Refusal of Time, an all - enveloping, multi-sensory installation that explores the transformation of time into material objects, sound, images and mechanics.

The result of research conducted on two fronts — conservation and curatorial — the catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut - outs by exploring a host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and materials and the role and function of the works in his practice; their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies; their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent, a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing.

With abstract forms drawn from the female body, Tracy Thomason explores material and figural transformation through collage, drawing, and painting.

Throughout, the artist has been exploring the relationship between humans and the environment, often working with organic materials like fruit, flowers, chocolate, and dirt to capture processes of transformation, both natural and industrial.

This work adds to current debate involving the recording and documentation of performance and live event in the arts, exploring slow capture in an age of acceleration at the intersection between visual arts practice and physical geography, to investigate image - making as a form of material transformation and transportation.»

Transforming simple and discarded materials into complex installation sculptures, Anatsui explores issues of consumption, transformation and the environment, pervasive in discussions of colonialism.

AV Festival 14: Extraction explores the raw materials that create our experience of the world, from their origins deep in the ground, to their extraction, transformation and global exploitation.

The theme and form of musical instruments proved ideal for exploring physical and material transformations and the resulting shifts in meaning.

Abraham Cruzvillegas works in his Mexico City studio and at exhibitions in Paris and Minneapolis to assemble sculptures and installations from found objects and disparate materials, through which he explores the effects of improvisation, transformation, and decay.

Showing at the Springfield Art Museum, Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery and Power explores Kara Walker's transformation of historical materials through a range of different projects, bringing together some of her earliest and most recent artworks.

Entitled, Melted Hearts and Deadly Force, the exhibition explores the contradictions of materials and content, and the primacy of illusion, beauty and transformation.

Curated by Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art Jessi DiTillo of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery and Power explores Walker's transformation of historical materials through a range of different projects, bringing together some of her earliest and most recent artworks.