Sentences with phrase «familiar everyday objects»

The explicit use of casting processes behind Eva Rothschild's Wandering Palm, which assembles cast component parts of familiar everyday objects, has a resonance with the existing permanent collection and in particular Barbara Hepworth's own hand - worked plasters from the Hepworth Family Gift.

Some participating artists take fragments of the urban environment or familiar everyday objects and discover new ways of seeing them, both visually and intellectually.

Engaging in the central modernist debate initiated by Marcel Duchamp, Turk's varied work appropriates both familiar everyday objects and instantly recognisable artworks by towering figures of twentieth - century art such as Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Giorgio de Chirico.

Not exact matches

Within physics complementary models are used in the domain of the unobservably small, whose characteristics seem to be radically unlike those of everyday objects; the electron can not be adequately visualized or consistently described by familiar analogies.

Toys designed to imitate food and other everyday objects can help babies become familiar and comfortable with the world around them, and plush picnic baskets filled with imitation food and picnic supplies are great toys to start with.

The longer sentences make this a choice for more confident emergent readers, but words for familiar, everyday objects, like articles of clothing, aid comprehension, and the use of bold type to highlight inflection offers greater clarity.

Tony Feher defined a unique place in contemporary art by creating elegant and poetic sculptures and installations using familiar, everyday objects.

Tom Dash's mixed media works at Borghi's Bridgehampton site reflect what are probably the more familiar trappings of Pop Art, as embodied by Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist — and, more recently, Richard Prince, for whom Dash worked — in their use of appropriated imagery and their celebration of everyday objects.

Martin Soto Climent's series of photographs Marea de Espuma, 2015, captures softly - lit, pastel - colored close - ups of sheets of foam, turning an everyday object into something abstract and less familiar.

With Shingles (2011), for example, Carl Andre's floor - based metal works meet their working - class counterpart, as copper plates are exchanged for patterns of overlapping asphalt roofing tiles; Siding (2011), meanwhile, replaces Donald Judd's shiny metal cubes with the work's namesake — and very plebeian — exterior vinyl wallcovering found on many a tract house; and by simply lifting a marble countertop off the bathroom sink and onto the wall, Counter (2012) proves that even the slightest of gestures, such as a change of orientation and context, can render foreign something familiar — the everyday as convincing art object.

His focus on the work of art as an object in its own right paved the way for Minimalism, while his appropriation of familiar everyday imagery was a major influence on Pop Art.

As source material for his works, Brunner uses well - known objects or texts from everyday life which are universally familiar.

With gentle mockery and sharp intellect, Julian Opie uses painting, printmaking, sculpture, film and light installations to reinterpret familiar objects, and illustrate how modernist concepts and forms have been assimilated into the lexicon of everyday life.

«You have the sense in Guston's work that once the self is imperilled, even everyday things become sinister and conspire against you,» says Anfam, «These familiar objects represent the hostile world taking revenge.

The paintings of Zhang Enli depict the familiar and overlooked; everyday objects that are connected through the artist's immediate surroundings.

Using photography to dislocate the collected object from a sense of time or origin, Chu's surreal vignettes will transform the everyday into a moment abstracted from reality, coaxing the viewer's experience of perception to the space between foreign and familiar.

We see literal objects and situations in front of us everyday, both in our familiar personal spaces and as we venture out into new spaces outside of our daily routine.

Adam McEwen appropriates vernacular forms, from text messages and obituaries to everyday consumer objects, manipulating familiar items and repurposing them in new, unexpected contexts.

In recent years, Demand has turned to taking saturated cellphone photographs of everyday objects (bathroom tiles, paper cups wedged in fence chains, a bar of soap), again estranging viewers from the familiar and mundane.

The exhibition will particularly address the ways in which Lucas engages with the legacy of surrealism — from her clever transformations of everyday objects to her exploration of sexual ambiguity and the tension between the familiar and the disorienting or absurd.

In celebration of International Sculpture Day, ArtLeadHER brings attention to the existence of familiar and foreign objects and its relation to everyday life.

Azimut / h's transatlantic networks are evident in Jasper Johns» reproductions of familiar objects, and Robert Rauschenberg's incorporation of everyday objects and of course untitled white paintings.

Conceptual artist Ceal Floyer (born 1968) is celebrated for her deft manoeuvres in everyday situations, testing the slippage between function and implication, the literal and the imagined — reconfiguring familiar objects as sources of surprise and humour.

The exhibition also includes works that focus on familiar objects, both everyday and iconic.

A solo exhibition of Dutch London - based artist Hanae Wilke, which brings together sculptures that borrow from existing and everyday structures, forms, familiar objects and systems.

Bruce Nauman transforms everyday activities, speech, and objects into works that are both familiar and alien.

Her conceptually - driven works are informed by her observations of everyday life, familiar objects and common places.

For Mercado, Hierro intentionally incorporates objects and images familiar and unfamiliar to her audience as way to frame, skew, abstract, repackage, reexamine and question these objects» place in our daily lives and our place in the objects» everyday distribution.

By making use of everyday things that are often overlooked, Therrien situates the viewer in familiar territory, then allows the objects to demand reassessment as instruments of subjectivity and of consciousness itself.

Ruthenbeck's work subverts the familiar, using minimalist objects and simple everyday materials to explore architecture, iconology, perception, and in later works, sound.

As we encounter these hybrids between sculptural objects, and products familiar to our everyday experience, their separation from their defining brand offers clues to the objects «true» function.

Glyndor Gallery Sunroom Project Space artist Tamara Johnson transforms everyday objects and structures, turning seemingly common or shared knowledge on its head; the familiar becomes unfamiliar, yet the unfamiliar is experienced only through perceptions of the familiar.

Presenting familiar but unlabeled photographs and anonymous everyday objects (now ready - made), it challenges memory and perception, and reveals the creation of value (and art) as deeply participatory.

This group exhibition brings together three artists whose Conceptual practices are marked by ephemeral gestures enacted upon everyday objects and by interventions into overly familiar situations.

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.

By reclaiming from design this familiar visual language, Worthington suggests that the everyday objects with which we surround ourselves can and should be re-assessed as beautiful; the sleek forms of modern design reflected in our home sound systems and desk chairs have been as carefully considered as the pediment of the Parthenon.

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.

«Often combining paper and acrylic collage with images of everyday objects, Youngblood juxtaposes the figure with the abstract, raising questions of what is familiar versus what is unknown,» the museum states.

In his sculptural installations, Handforth often transplants familiar objects found in civic infrastructure — such as municipal signs, motor scooters, hydrants, street lamps, wheels, and traffic cones — into unfamiliar surroundings and transforms them, by reworking or deforming their structures and configurations, in order to reveal something new about the ways in which these objects function in our everyday lives.

A familiar image of a room filled with giant everyday objects - a comb, a pill, a goblet, a match and a shaving brush - with walls that double as cloudy skies, the Magritte will be the linchpin of SFMOMA's surrealist holdings.

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.

Her winning entry featured seven of her recent works, which fold familiar images and objects from everyday surroundings into intricately crafted installations.

The history of the world by Zipora Fried would probably look something like the black and white avant - garde films of the Dadaist canon: morphing, jagged, and driven by a language that is neither recognizable nor familiar, emphasizing everyday objects as agents of intellect rather than simple extensions of the hand.

The familiar unfamiliarity of seeing an everyday scene or object from a strange position is the genesis of making it interesting again.