Not exact matches
«The students became excited about using
familiar materials from their
everyday lives to meet a real - world energy challenge,» Chen recounted.
As source
material for his works, Brunner uses well - known objects or texts from
everyday life which are universally
familiar.
Ottersbach uses images that are
familiar to the viewer; he derives his
material from a huge, well researched archive of pre existing images from
everyday life.
Friedman's work presents the processes and
materials of sculpture vis - a-vis the materiality of the body, manipulating substance, subject matter, and scale to highlight the
familiar as well as the surreal aspects of
everyday things.
Interstitial draws extensively from the
everyday environment by utilizing commonplace building
materials and
familiar sonic textures that reference the interstitial architectural spaces that function as transitions between inside and outside.
Curated by Jeff Bergman and featuring work by: William DuttererSara EichnerAustin KennedyNathan KensingerMichael NeffHeidi NeilsonLauren PascarellaEliza StampsMatthew Trygve TungStructured ties
familiar places and
materials together with unfamiliar settings, focusing our attention on
everyday landmarks and fixed points in our world.
Ruthenbeck's work subverts the
familiar, using minimalist objects and simple
everyday materials to explore architecture, iconology, perception, and in later works, sound.
These
materials are accessible and
familiar, but by combining these ordinary
materials with innovative technique and a richly layered conceptual narrative, they then transcend their
everyday associations into something sensational.»
Many of the featured artists emerged during the 1960s and 1970s, when an interest in
everyday materials and nontraditional processes fueled a desire to reinvestigate and redeploy some of the most
familiar or humble mediums, including paper.
The processes he employs are informed by a playful but considered subversion of the usage of
materials and objects to produce conceptual upsets in the
everyday and question
familiar perceptions of our surroundings.
Often incorporating toys, knickknacks, souvenirs, and other kitsch
materials into her work, Porter uses
familiar objects for her subjects and scenes from the
everyday, creating unexpected and oftentimes absurd new situations and landscapes.
Lee is known for using
everyday objects such as soda cans, light bulbs, socks and tambourines to evoke the
familiar and explore affiliations between
materials and their coded cultural and sexual meanings.
In his solo exhibition at Overgaden, he expresses this fascination in a sensory,
material investigation that sheds new light on the
familiar,
everyday objects that surround us.
Combining
familiar yet unlikely
materials in order to reconfigure
everyday experiences, his work vacillates between painting, drawing, and sculpture.