Before turning to steel, Serra produced abstract sculptures
from nontraditional materials — fiberglass, rubber or molten lead — which he splashed or threw in their liquid states against the walls of studios or exhibition spaces, recording their shapes and angles.
In the series, which references the «blue hour» between daylight and dark, he portrays 20th - century art historical icons that are sculpted and cast
from nontraditional materials, which would be self - obliterating if ever used for their intended purpose.
PICASSO SCULPTURE The first museum survey of Picasso's sculpture in nearly 50 years includes assemblages made
from nontraditional materials like plywood, as well as photographs and works on paper that reveal his groundbreaking approach to sculpting in three dimensions.
Not exact matches
He built outward
from the wall and canvas, incorporating
nontraditional materials such as plastics, foam board and video recording technology.
Expand your idea of what drawing can be as we abstract basic drawings, experiment with
nontraditional materials, and take inspiration
from the work of contemporary artists.
First it began incorporating all manner of found objects and
nontraditional materials; then it lifted brilliant color
from painting and achieved new levels of abstraction.
The exhibition selects
from nine important bodies of work that reveal Moffett's sustained political engagement and explore how he interrogates and blurs the definition of painting, incorporating
nontraditional materials such as video and photography.
The exhibition offers a series of puzzling and beautiful objects made
from cast glass, fine metals and gemstones, along with
nontraditional materials like ash and soap, to highlight the unexpected relationship between Surrealism and craft.
With a range of traditional and
nontraditional materials, including acrylic and oil paint, ceramic, paper, canvas, carpet, and larvae, as well as varying techniques —
from painting, pouring, cutting to burning — the artists employ different degrees of chance, and some more than others.
As museums have mounted more exhibitions
from their permanent collections, revisiting their archives and breathing new life into years» worth of holdings, this generation's artists are also looking back - revisiting materiality, composing and recombining
nontraditional materials, perhaps out of necessity, or as a comment on a collective loss of intimacy through lives lived online.
Best known for his re-creations of iconic images
from visual culture made using
nontraditional materials and recorded with a camera, Muniz here strips the work of representational imagery, in a direct exploration of the illusionist strategies and
material processes that he has developed over the course of his career.
Arts Benicia (CA), National Call for Glass Artists, Cutting Edge:
Nontraditional Glass Deadline: June 10th, 2018, 11:59 pm MST
From their call: Complicated, amorphous, intimidating, ancient, and finicky, glass as an art
material is as manifold in its adaptability as in... Continue reading →
The solo show includes 50 works ranging
from 1968 to the present that encompass a range of mediums and highlight her early contributions to process - based sculpture and Land Art along with her use of
nontraditional natural
materials and her passion for photography.