Not exact matches
Understood in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range
of material, among which are an 1864 photograph
of the forest
of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10
foot landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph
of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a small
piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up with bits
of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.
Johnson's installation will feature a nine by fourteen
foot installation
of hand - pulled hot glass cane created using UV reactive
materials and lit using special UV LED lighting, which will make the entire
piece glow in the window space.
Five women dressed in pastel spring dresses and slingbacks trudge through mounting piles
of slippery
material as they dig their hands, elbows and
feet into a 7,500 - pound clay cube, carve out a
piece and hurl it at a wall.
If you're Mass MoCA, you shroud Christoph Büchel's incomplete 2007 «Training Ground for Democracy» in yellow tarps and air your dirty laundry by displaying his list
of requested
materials for the
piece, which included 8 voting booths, piles
of old computers, 1,000
feet of barbed wire, 12 grenades, 8 body bags, 4 prosthetic legs, and the fuselage
of a 737 airliner.
Scott's large - scale
pieces — often in excess
of four
feet in dimension — blend photographic prints, found
materials, drawing and painting into complex strata
of emotion, historical narrative and nostalgia.
The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University
of Hawaii at Manoa, one
of Smith's most open and regular
pieces to date, which consists
of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3
feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than
material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version
of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal
piece made from the dismantled components
of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.