Sentences with phrase «exploring monumental works»

She has had solo exhibitions at LACMA (2015), which grew out of an earlier series of performances exploring monumental works of sculpture in the museum's collection.

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This week's contributing author, Athena LaTocha, is an artist whose monumental works on paper explore the tenuous relationship between man - made and natural landscapes.

Anatomy of a Kimono (1976) was a monumental ten - panel work in which she explored the beauty of pattern and color relationships in the traditional ceremonial garment.

Through more than 50 carefully selected works — mostly large - format, monumental paintings — the exhibition explores the push and pull of these two artists.

Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work — which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition.

Through more than 50 carefully selected works — most of which are large - format, monumental paintings — the exhibition explores the push and pull of these two remarkable figures.

Unlike his monumental film installations, this retrospective overview rather explores the idea of a private video archive showing central subjects and formal strategies of Gordon's works.

During a day's workshop at the South London Gallery, Havering Sixth Form students worked with artist Katriona Beales to explore the themes of monumental versus unmonumental in Gabriel Kuri's exhibition.

Exhibition Features Monumental Works That Explore Relationship of the Individual to Society

With works by over 50 artists spanning five continents — including Alisa Baremboym, Pamela Rosenkranz, Marlie Mul, and Timur Si - Qin — The Great Acceleration explores the properties of materials «informed» by human activity, seen through the videos of participating artists Ian Cheng, Rachel Rose and Camille Henrot, or through the transposition of lightness of pixels onto monumental objects by Neil Beloufa and David Douard.

Curated by the internationally acclaimed Simon Njami, this monumental exhibition explores the thematic sequences of Dante Alighieri's epic poem through works by more than 40 contemporary artists from 19 African countries as well as the African diaspora.

The viewer is a participant in exploring his monumental sculptures — the work becoming more objective as they decide how to interpret it.

Art AIDS America Chicago is a monumental exhibition that explores how the AIDS crisis had an impact on American art and culture.The works on display, from the early 1980s to the present, explore a wide spectrum of artistic responses to AIDS — from political anger and social activism to personal grieving.

The generous breathing room the gallery spaces offer creates a reverence around the work that feels thematically analogous to the monumental ideas explored in it: as Perov puts it, «his explorations go the fundamental themes at the core of our existence — life, death, birth, rebirth, transformation, transfiguration...

After a second breakfast at Marfa Burrito and an espresso at Frama, the morning and afternoon were dedicated to exploring the Chinati Foundation (Judd's 100 aluminum boxes and Chamberlain's 22 monumental sculptures in the former Marfa Wool and Mohair building are an absolute must), and a visit to Dennis at 2d Marfa, where a slew of minimalist work by Gloria Graham and Susan York was on view.

This monumental project explores the limits of music and marks the Chicago debut of Morton Feldman's six - hour - long work.

Illustrated with hundreds of images that explore the true scale and impact of Gormley's work — many never published before — complemented with Caiger - Smith's critical narrative, this book is a comprehensive survey of a truly monumental career.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

From his early investigation of the rhythms of market stall displays, to his monumental installation Break Down in 2001, in which he systematically destroyed all of his possessions in a former department store, his work explores the everyday ways in which capitalism shapes our lives and identities.

Athena LaTocha, born in Anchorage, Alaska, is an artist whose monumental works on paper explore the tenuous relationship between man - made and natural landscapes.

In his third solo show at the gallery, Haendel explores the power of the heroic in portraiture — playing with issues of masculinity, power and gender in a series of works that depict everything from powerful men to teenage girls riding rodeo to a monumental portrait of Hillary Clinton (his largest drawing to date).

The most recent presentation, Tales of Our Time (2016 — 17), was a group exhibition that included a robot - operated installation of monumental scale, a public tea gathering in an indoor garden setting, and immersive video works to explore and challenge the notion of place.

From his early investigation of the rhythms of market stall displays in the 1990's, to his monumental installation in 2001, in which he systematically destroyed all of his possessions in a former department store, his work explores the everyday ways in which capitalism shapes our lives and identities.

His solo exhibition, Andrew Dadson: Under the Sun, currently showing at the Vancouver Art Gallery features works that have not previously been exhibited in Canada, explores abstraction in various media and includes new monumental paintings.

At Lehmann Maupin, «Beards and Barbed Wire», a new series of monumental, mixed - media works by long - time collaborators Gilbert & George (b. 1943 and b. 1942, respectively) will explore the ways in which both beards and barbed wire serve as devices to protect, disguise, intrigue and repel.

His monumental, layered works often painted after black and white photographs explore the shadow side of human ambition and investigate the line where ethical and aesthetical values cross.

This vibrant edition examines Tom Wesselmann's important series of Standing Still Lifes, monumental works that are both pictorial and sculptural.Accompanying an exhibition at Gagosian New York, this catalogue explores nine of...

NMWA presents, Inside the Dinner Party Studio, and exhibition exploring the studio environment during the creation of Judy Chicago's monumental work, The Dinner Party through archives, documentation, and film.

An exhibition of drawings by Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011) at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo explores the processes and development behind the artist's monumental works.

In addition to this tradition and the role the café played in creating so many monumental literary works, it is also a perfect spot from which to begin exploring the Left Bank.