Sentences with phrase «fabric sculptures sewn»

In Ruby's series SOFT WORK (2012), consisting of loose fabric sculptures sewn out of the American flag, he offers a playful means of confronting the pitfalls of overt patriotism.

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The artist has sewn the sculptures with fabric from border patrol uniforms, and many of the works feature embroidery crafted by immigrant workers that relay their own individual stories of crossing the border.

Machine metal and sewn fabric «toy - like» sculptures, somewhat reminiscent of small dolls, expand on Barclay's interest in the tension that lies between the known and the unknown.

The 80 - year - old Hicks, an American in Paris since 1964, and before that a student of Josef Albers and a classmate of Eva Hesse at Yale, weaves, sews, spins, braids, wraps and twines paintings, wall hangings and sculptures of dizzying beauty out of every imaginable fabric.

At the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York this May, eight of the 17 participating galleries featured artists working with textiles, whether by incorporating them into sculpture, working directly with weaving or sewing, or referring to fabric patterns and forms.

The sewn - fabric drawings of Geta Bratescu insinuate melting faces, while Melvin Edwards's potent little «Lynch Fragment» wall sculptures imply further violence.

Kusama spent much of her time between 1962 and 1964 sewing thousands of stuffed fabric tubers and grafting them to furniture and found objects to create her Accumulation sculptures.

The pieces there were sewn in the same way as his recognizable fabric sculptures, but using gelatin tissue rather than polyester.

In this series, I began to experiment with printing images of natural scenes, plants, and other items on to cotton and silk that I then sewed, staged, and re-photographed to create digital photographic collages or sewed the printed fabric into soft sculptures.

In my artwork I am used to working with different media depending on how interested I am: painting, installations, sculptures, prints, ceramics; this, however, has been associated generally with the soft sculpture (sewn and stuffed fabrics), a technique that brings me closer to the craftwork of the popular cultures of the Caribbean, incorporating real chosen objects.»