Sentences with phrase «explores consumerism»

Running the gamut from milk chocolate to dark chocolate, to the lone white chocolate Easter bunny, the installation explores consumerism and religion, or as the artist statement puts it, serves as «a commentary on the commodity fetishism born from the annual U.S. holiday industry.

With a dynamic country music score, 14 performers brandished cell phones, Starbucks cups and plastic machine guns as they explored consumerism, environmental abuse and body image.

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What needs to be explored is the effect this constant conditioning in consumerism is doing to the common understanding of what it means to be human, what it means to be religious, and what it means to have faith.

The exhibition will explore how fashion photography can engage in issues such as gender, wealth, consumerism, the environment, protest and identity building.

Her work — exploring the space of movement, change, family, love, nature, the environment, consumerism, identity and race — uses mediums and materials for their own innate language and capabilities.

In his solo exhibition Moonlighting at Loudhailer Gallery in Culver City, Greene conjures up sensibilities that remind one of the creative explosion that occurred during the Weimar Republic, the subject of a recent exhibition at LACMA, and a time (1919 - 1933) when Germany was rebuilding itself after World War I, soldiers were coming home maimed or not at all, consumerism was on the rise, women had more independence, and sexuality become a more free, fluid thing to explore.

Some of the concepts artist explores are commercialism, consumerism, pop culture and the globalization of mainstream media.

His pieces are well - known for exploring the ways in which modern American and Europea culture has cast the female body as interchangeable with beauty and consumerism.

I mine the traditions, ambitions and contradictions of my hometown to create visual allegories exploring ways of being, consumerism and technology's interaction with the transcendent.

Curated by Tiffany Zabludowicz, STRAY explores how the human body is affected in the digital age and how flesh transitions into something that can be manipulated whether that is by consumerism, observation or self - improvement.

An interest in the culture of consumerism and the particularities of the contemporary recessionary moment are explored in an ongoing series of soft sculptures works that reference shopping carts.

Over the course of his career, multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams has created a dizzying array of works — from vividly hued collages and assemblages to large - scale sculptural installations and performance pieces — that explore the black experience and its intersections with pop culture, consumerism, fashion, and art history.

In a multidisciplinary manner, she explores the relationship between consumerism and identity, class imitation and social deception, altruism and empathy.

Indeed, the relationship between popular culture and Pop Art is explored from all angles, discussing its interpretation as critique or celebration of consumerism, mass production and contemporary graphic art; whether Pop is simply another manifestation of popular culture or subversive criticism of it.

The issues explored will range from the emergence of key social institutions and consumerism to mad cow disease and the origins of the surveillance state — looking back at the causes and catalysts of British politics, psychology and sociology as it is today, and which underlie contemporary British art as it is represented in Mirrorcity.

Regarding the latter, Baldridge has explored the intersection of consumerism and mortality by employing such gloomy components as found coffin catalogues, losing lottery tickets, and knife infomercials.

This year, the Canadian artist continues to explore the semiotics of desire, consumerism, and luxury, this time throwing painting into the mix.

Landy has used monumental installations / performances to explore political and social issues, such as the nature of consumerism, the commodification of art and the value placed on human beings in the corporate world.

The event will include a series of intensive workshops, discussions and performances that will explore how youth culture glamorizes consumerism in an attempt to examine capitalism through the lenses of art, history and culture.

In his new book, best - selling author Brian Solis explores the importance of experiential design and how to navigate the evolving landscape of new consumerism.

The series explores the phenomenon of mass - production and consumerism in contemporary Chinese society, as well as the role of the country in the export industry.

Zafirovska's work explores social, scientific and genetic development and consumerism.

The luggage store is proud to present «My Love is a 187» featuring four leading artists who explore global consumerism, Black visual representation in history and US popular culture.

They also boldly took on subversive topics: Hartigan's work, for instance, explored themes of sexual identity and critiqued bridal imagery and consumerism decades before it became fashionable to do so.

The movement emerged amid the post-World War II explosions of capitalist consumerism and mass media, as artists explored new modes of mechanical production, often by taking commonplace consumer goods and pop - cultural icons as their subject matter.

The Berlin - based artist looks at stereotypes, pop culture and consumerism to explore the concept of the «East» and the «Orient, asking «how do identities and bodies transform from one place to the other?»

He explores the anthropology of clubbing, the ironies of consumerism — both key in his (sort of) best work here, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore — and the disembodied mystique of digital technology.

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.

«I use landscape painting to explore the utopian dreams of Chinese history, from past collectivization to new consumerism,» explains Ji, who was trained in Song Dynasty (960 — 1279) landscape painting.

The show focuses on works that employ the human figure as a model in advertising, exploring questions of iconography, idealized beauty and consumerism.

Wangechi Mutu's work boldly explores the contradictions of female and cultural identity, drawing the viewer into conversations about beauty, consumerism, colonialism, race, and gender...

Greenfield, a filmmaker and photographer, has long explored the issues of affluence and consumerism at the intersection of social status and celebrity culture.

It explores the causation, occurrences, inner mechanisms, politics and functions of Anxiety in relation to the development of consumerism in cities like Hong Kong, through the practice of the four participating artists.

Through a wide variety of media ranging from installation to performance and ceramics, Pia Camil explores themes of art history, consumerism and the Mexican urban landscape.

Scott's curiously beautiful works are, as the artist explains, «still lives of vanity,» and works of «confessional impressionism» intimately depicting and exploring the debris of consumerism.

The four nominated artists — Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Elizabeth Price and Paul Noble — explore themes of consumerism, social and cultural spaces and performance through technical drawings, film installations, and mixed media of imagery, texts and music.

The nominated artists explore history, consumerism, social and cultural spaces and performance through techincal drawings, film installations, and mixed media of imagery, texts and music.

Beninese conceptual artist Meschac Gaba explores themes of globalization, consumerism, and the Western museum through acts of artistic appropriation.

In his practice, Thasnai Sethaseree explores themes of memory, migration, consumerism and modernity.

Ryan Trecartin writes, directs, and produces movies that explore themes of identity, consumerism, and post-millennial technology.

Exploring the inherent hypocrisies in media's depiction of women, consumerism, and history, Zvonar dismantles and disrupts the body, creating hands, feet, arms, and legs to be seen as objects and pieces rather than whole beings.

Focusing on his signature icons creates a readily available device, partly eliminating the need for compositional decisions and allowing him to critically explore painting, while seemingly poking fun at some aspect of contemporary culture or consumerism.

Paul Thulin uses analog photography, digital montage, appropriation and various alternative materials, to explore the contextual and material constructs of history, cultural identity, consumerism, memory and myth.

The Walthamstow Tapestry explores the emotional resonance of brand names in our lives and our quasi-religious relationship to consumerism.

Working in thematic series since the early 1980s, Koons has explored notions of consumerism, taste, banality, childhood and sexuality.

Its solution is complete human curation of video content, combined with a focus on videos that allow kids to explore their world, instead of being force - fed videos designed to promote consumerism, distraction, and bad attitudes.