Sentences with phrase «first monumental work»

Leigh's High Line proposal is her first monumental work.

She worked in plastic and metal, and in 1969, she created her first monumental work in Corten steel, an outdoor sculpture commissioned by Princeton University.

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I opened my mail box today and happily found a package with Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Viking, March 2010), a monumental work by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University and author of The Reformation and Thomas Cranmer, both highly acclaimed....

The Value of a Hospital Grade Pump or, Isn't my Insurance Pump Good Enough??? When a breastfeeding mother returns to work at the end of her maternity leave, the transition back to the workplace is almost as monumental as becoming a mother in the first place.

His new book, The Social Conquest of Earth, eloquently elaborates upon his hope, first expressed in his monumental work Sociobiology, that science can help us achieve self - understanding and even, perhaps, salvation.

However, this has been such a monumental week for my blog - I joined my first Twitter chat, did my first collab, and I have another one in the works for y» all!

The new edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica brings a monumental reference work into the twenty - first century.

Shown for the first time in the U.S., Gaillard's monumental work Artefacts (2011) imparts a reflection on the myth of Babylon takes form through a montage of scenes from post-conflict Iraq interwoven with images of the ancient civilization's antiquities, none more famous perhaps than the Ishtar Gate, reconstructed in an austere gallery of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin in the 1930s.

He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.

Tuymans, who has just finished the works for his first exhibition of 2015, opening at David Zwirner London this month, rises sluggishly as I admire his monumental night painting.

Earlier this month, Bradford announced he would be installing a monumental 360 - degree work at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the project is his first presentation in Washington, D.C. and opens in November 2016.

Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum marks the first solo exhibition in a New York museum of Anatsui's art.

Following her monumental installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery, Building 5, in 2007 — which marked her first indoor projection in the U.S. — Holzer returns with a campus - wide series of work that will include a large - scale outdoor projection on the River Street side of the factory's complex titled For North Adams, 21 of her celebrated carved stone benches located throughout MASS MoCA's sprawling campus, an installation of her Inflammatory Essays posters, and rotating exhibitions of her work spanning the breadth of her career.

Exhibiting at the gallery for the first time, DeLucia's work centers on images of domestic objects rendered in monumental scale through sculpture and relief.

In addition to the monumental work Amerikkka, new works will be on view for the first time.

Serves as a member of the Pennell Committee at the Library of Congress until 1993, replacing Jim Dine; works first with Donald Saff and then with Yvonne Jacquette to select prints for the Library of Congress Pennell Print Collection; is guest teacher at Cornell University, SUNY Purchase, and University of Southern California, Los Angeles; sings in and designs a set based on Goya's prisoner figures for the «El Salvador» oratorio concert by the Back Bay Chorale under the direction of conductor Larry Hill, which takes place at Harvard's Sanders Theater on 18 May; exhibition Wakeby Day / Wakeby Night: Monumental Monotypes by Michael Mazur opens 11 March at the Hayden Gallery, MIT (colorplate 18), in conjunction with installation of Wakeby monotypes at the 500 Memorial Drive dormitory building.

A large body of his work, from 1977 to today, combining tables and monumental installations movement, is currently presented for the first time at the Grand Palais.

Presented in tandem with his monumental outdoor sculpture Playboy Marfa, which will be installed outside Dallas Contemporary, Phillips's first U.S. solo museum exhibition will feature both past and new works that emphasize his career - long exploration of political and social identity, consumerism, eroticized desire and social constructs.

On «A Subtlety,» Kara Walker's first public art work, a monumental sugar sphinx on view over the summer in Brooklyn «I was a little disappointed with Kara Walker's piece that she did for the former Domino Sugar factory.

This, the first New York exhibition of John Hoyland's work in 25 years, brings together seven of his monumental stain paintings along with works on paper.

This will be Anatsui's first exhibition in New York since his acclaimed solo show, Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, traveled to the Brooklyn Museum in 2013.

In summer 2015, the High Museum of Art will present a major exhibition of 60 works created between 1954 and 2013 by internationally acclaimed American artist Alex Katz, including 15 monumental landscape paintings to be displayed publicly together for the first time.

For this exhibition, his first solo presentation in the UK, Mahama has created a new series of works including Non-Orientable Nkansa (2016), a monumental sculpture formed from stained wooden fragments.

Victoria Siddall, Director, Frieze Fairs said: «This year, Frieze Week follows our first ever summer opening of Frieze Sculpture, a free exhibition of monumental outdoor work in Regent's Park.

[citation needed] Also in 2007, Axial Age (2005 — 2007), a monumental cycle of paintings, was shown for the first time at the 2007 Venice Biennale, with the wish explicitly expressed by the artist that the work should remain on display in Venice.

«Metas» is the Ghanaian artist's first exhibition on the Upper East Side, and his first show in New York since his «Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui» retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013.

This fall, the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) presents the first comprehensive retrospective of work by Harvey Quaytman, an under - recognized figure in twentieth - century American painting noted for his monumental shaped canvasses, material investigations, and interest in color as a pure medium.

Like the monumental backdrop paintings first shown in the exhibition «Left Behind» in 2010 at CAPC, Bordeaux, these new works are painted over used theatrical scenic backdrops bought by the artist.

The MACC exhibits the projects for its first four monumental works, which will be traveling along the Camino de Santiago.

Jenny Holzer will mount her «first site - specific» work by carving her signature «poems on cliffs, monumental boulders and on bedrock» in Ibiza.

Associate Curator Emily Beeny discusses two exceptional works by Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868 — 1940) in the Norton Simon Museum's collection: Paysages et Intérieurs (Landscapes and Interiors), an exquisite print album of 1899, and First Fruits, the artist's monumental decorative canvas that was recently cleaned and conserved.

The murals, sandblasted directly onto the concrete walls of the building by the Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, are the first in a series of monumental works in concrete realized by Picasso, and mark the beginning of a working relationship that would continue for the rest of Picasso's life.

From these to Accumulation sculptures, where everyday objects are made uncanny with a covering of soft - sculpture phallic forms or dried macaroni, to monumental outdoor sculptures and installations, such as Narcissus Garden, originating in 1966 when Kusama first participated in the Venice Biennale, and to the entrancing illusions of recent experiential mirrored room installations, Kusama's work is far - reaching, expansive and immersive.

I Killed Kenny is the first museum exhibition devoted to New York — based artist Joyce Pensato's work and features the monumental wall painting «Running Mickeys,» created on - site for CAM.

With new works from over thirteen gallery artists, MMG received an unparalleled amount of traffic in Miami this year — and by the first day, had placed a monumental work by Allison Schulnik with the Nerman Museum (KS), the last remaining Josh Azzarella «Untitled # 100 (Fantasia)» video with a private collection (also recently acquired by LACMA) and new works by Kenichi Yokono with the Progressive Collection.

As warmup for that major event, Stella will present a show of new work at Boesky — his first since signing with the gallery this spring — that will present the dynamic sculptural works he now creates as a mode of painting in three dimensions, including one monumental piece that promises to drop a few critical jaws.

He is currently at work on Atlas, Plural, Monumental, the first survey exhibition in the Americas of work by the artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, and A Traveling Show, which considers the long - standing relationship between artists Matt Keegan and Kay Rosen.

Clare Lilley, who selected and placed the works, said: «From the contemplative and ephemeral to the robust and monumental, the exhibition includes the park's first - ever conceptual work — a remaking of a rare 1969 piece by Ed Herring — and classic painted sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Jean Dubuffet alongside a newly created work by Eddie Martinez.

The first and most monumental of numerous black monochromes featured in this timely and well - edited survey of works by Wally Hedrick, who died in 2003 at the age of seventy - five, is War Room, 1967-68/2002, a massive volume enclosed on four sides by...

Five works from Campbell's signature Low Resolution Works series occupy the first gallery and a singular work of monumental scale titled Collision of Harmonies by ZHANG Peili will be mounted in the second galworks from Campbell's signature Low Resolution Works series occupy the first gallery and a singular work of monumental scale titled Collision of Harmonies by ZHANG Peili will be mounted in the second galWorks series occupy the first gallery and a singular work of monumental scale titled Collision of Harmonies by ZHANG Peili will be mounted in the second gallery.

Wearing's monumental photographic installation Rock «n» Roll 70 (2015) is a site - specific commission for the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall, and the first presentation in Boston of the celebrated artist's work.

The monumental series, acquired by Dia Art Foundation in the 1970s, was meticulously restored by the artist, who installed the work at Dia Beacon in May 2008, marking its first ever exhibition in North America.

Christina Strassfield, Guild Hall Museum Director / Chief Curator, wrote of the work, «I had the pleasure of seeing Carol Ross» monumental outdoor sculpture for the first time several years ago.

Together with original paintings from the late 1940's and early 1950's will be large - scale abstract silver gelatin works, and the first in a series of monumental painted Mural Projects, all conceived between 1950 and 1953, and only now realised at full scale.

Early on, Bartlett was profoundly influenced by Sol LeWitt's Paragraphs on Contemporary Art, and today she is perhaps best known for the gridded work Rhapsody, a monumental installation that was first exhibited in 1976.

This is the trademark of the African artist El Anatsui, whose new exhibition «Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui,» on view through August 4, 2013, is the first solo exhibition in New York.

For her first solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York — based artist Martha Rosler presents her work Meta - Monumental Garage Sale, a large - scale version of the classic American garage sale, in which Museum visitors can browse and buy second - hand goods organized, displayed, and sold by the artist.

The first internationally touring survey show dedicated to the work of one of Japan's leading and most innovative contemporary artists, this exhibition will present works from Ohtake's multifaceted practice which ranges from painting to assemblage, collage, drawing, monumental sculpture, architectural environment and sound — much of which has never been seen in the US.

The final exhibition in the series travels back to Rodin's own era with work by Klimt, an artist Rodin admired so much that when he first saw the painter's monumental Beethoven Frieze (1901) in the Secession Building in Vienna, he clasped the artist's hand and told him, «What an artist you are!

First of all is the «subversive design» of Ettore Sottsass for the Studio Memphis followed by the graphic design of Peter Saville and Neville Brody; architectural models and rendering, together with preparatory drawings by Philip Johnson for the AT&T skyscraper (1978); works by Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman and Ai Weiwei; the 1986 stainless steel bust of Louis XIV by Jeff Koons; the reconstruction of the monumental work by Jenny Holzer «Protect Me From What I Want» (1983 - 85); performances and costumes, including the «Big Suit» worn by David Byrne for the documentary «Stop Making Sense» of 1984; extracts from films such as» The Last of England» by Derek Jarman (1987); music videos of Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and New Order; and also surprising objects such as the dinner services designed by architects like Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry and Arata Isozaki.