Sentences with phrase «from unconventional materials»

Over time, the exhibition program has broadened to encompass abstract and figurative aesthetics to innovative works created from unconventional materials.

Richard Serra, a young, relatively unknown artist at the time, began to create works from unconventional materials that emphasized gravity and process.

From unconventional materials and processes, he creates figurative forms such as Self (1991).

Group exhibition Material as Medium features traditional works created from unconventional materials.

Recently, Lehmann Maupin signed its first Chinese artist, the 40 - year - old Liu Wei, who works in painting and photography, but has been focused recently on large - scale architectural sculptures that resemble cityscapes and are made from unconventional materials, like door frames and books.

Donovan's practice uses identical objects presented in large clusters to create organic looking structures from unconventional material.

Not exact matches

Many of the materials are renewable, sewn from hemp, kinaff and other unconventional plant fibers.

The chassis is formed from a special grade stainless steel (4003) and, whilst an unconventional material choice, gives an extremely strong structure with class - leading torsional rigidity — it comes with a lifetime guarantee (100 years), 100 % recyclable and infinitely repairable.

His images often make use of unconventional materials, including meteorite dust, uranium, graphite and soot from smoke affixed to glass.

Fowler, who creates elaborate assemblage paintings from discarded found objects and unconventional materials, depicts both imagined and concrete narratives from his personal experience.

Drawing inspiration from the rawness and decay of the urban landscape, McCloud creates rich, large - scale abstract paintings and sculptural objects by fusing unconventional industrial materials — tar, bitumen, aluminum sheeting and oxidized steel plates — with traditional pigment and woodblock printing techniques.

Acconci's work continued to transform during the mid-1970s, positioning him as an unconventional architect who would go on to design structures from a wide range of materials.

He uses unconventional materials in traditional photographic techniques to produce unique photographic prints with a conceptual twist; for example his «dust» series, which uses collected dust and adhesive in place of the usual photographic chemicals to print delicate, gossamer images; or his photographs of lakes and rivers that are developed in liquid collected from the bodies of water themselves.

While the major artists of the movement produced different kinds of work, they were united by an interest in unconventional — typically everyday — materials, evidenced in Mario Merz's Cone (1967), made from willow, and Mario Ceroli's Io (1968), an iron and coal sphere.

In his newest paintings he makes use of unconventional materials and techniques ranging from dirt and dust, (liquid) metals and meteorite particles.

They will be accompanied by a series of works from the Arte Povera period, which are mostly made out of unconventional materials and found objects, set out to challenge the notion of high art.

The artist's use of unconventional materials and his central position in early British Conceptual Art is further informed by displays of contemporary material from the Estate archive, including examples of the artist's concrete poetry, working drawings, logbooks and photographs.

Fowler creates elaborate assemblage paintings through intuitive layering of found objects and unconventional materials that illustrate imagined and concrete narratives from his personal experience.

«Aaron Fowler (b. 1988, St. Louis, MO) creates elaborate assemblage paintings from discarded found objects and unconventional materials sourced from his local surroundings.

Painted on such unconventional materials as mattress fabric, offset wood and a box from a pharmacy, they make up for their scattershot, unrefined nature with a taste of the shape of things to come: raw visages, scrawled text and an obsession with the organisation of space.

Following the war, Nuvolo moved to Rome where, in Burri's studio, he began to develop his own artistic practice, under the influence of artists who shared his interest in a progressive departure from the use of the paintbrush toward an engagement with unconventional materials and techniques.

A prolific innovator of techniques and mediums, he used unconventional art materials ranging from dirt and house paint to umbrellas and car tires.

Working with unconventional materials and techniques, Uklański resuscitates artistic vernaculars from a number of various historical movements, adopting the idioms or «dialects» of Art Informel, Color Field Painting, Abstract Expressionism and Fiber Art, among others.

This retrospective, opening nearly twenty years after the French artist's death in 1998, will survey five decades of his work with unconventional materials, ranging from plexiglass to crushed automobiles.

In his work, he utilized accessible and unconventional materials from everyday life, as well as organic and inorganic debris.

The weaving techniques she learned from her father are transformed through her use of these unconventional materials and geometric patterns, building upon her own cultural identity while commenting on the idea as a whole.

In her practice, she often used tools associated with mechanical reproduction that she employs in unconventional ways, as well as mechanically reproduced materials, such as a windows screens, plastic mannequins, and studio floor debris from previous art pieces.

Albers was the son of a house painter from whom he inherited his skill with glass and other unconventional materials.

His works uses unconventional methods derived from found objects, material and images.

My most recent encounter with his works was during his two simultaneous exhibits: Works: 1968 — 1977 (Petzel, March 2 — April 29) consisting of the artist's early unstretched, pieced - together canvases and paper works made of unconventional materials in serial forms; and Lost Objects (curated by Piper Marshall at Mary Boone Gallery, March 4 — April 29), which features his installation of a smaller reconfiguration of 240 of the 750 cast concrete bone replicas from the fossil collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (1991) along with a cooperative video work May I Help You?

Drawing inspiration from the ruminative abstractions of Mark Rothko, while still maintaining a practice of working with unconventional materials and found objects, these so - called «till» paintings are product of this newfound exploration in material, working with dollar bills, empty cash tills, acrylic paint, and overproof rum.

With the use of unconventional materials, visitors experienced works from a renewed perspective, leaving with the realization that nothing is quite what it seems.

Drawing inspiration from the materials she found in an abandoned textile factory in Kettwig, she made her first three - dimensional artworks, and when she returned to New York she devoted herself exclusively to sculpture, creating fragile works in unconventional materials such as polyester, fiberglass and latex.

Paul Thek's expressive seascape, Sea series (1975) makes use of an unconventional material — a spread from the International Herald Tribune − as the surface for gestural brushstrokes.

In contemporary practice installation art continues to provide a fertile playground for new ideas and the use of unconventional materials, from Martin Boyce's dystopic, futuristic staging, to Clare Barclay's manipulated materials, Nathan Coley's cardboard constructions and Jim Lambie's psychedelic floor designs.

Chris Ofili: «Paradise Lost» Through 10/21 at David Zwirner This wunderkind painter's richly detailed works, many of which use unconventional materials, from glitter to elephant dung, feel vital and alive.

His sculptures are made from unconventional, industrial insulation materials — Styrofoam and polyurethane foam — whose color palette of baby blue and pink and their inherent toxicity are what he refers to as, «one big moral contradiction.»

This curation of creators takes a light - hearted look at what happens when artists break away from the starkness of white ground to explore surface with unexpected materials and unconventional methods.

London - based Studio Swine often uses unconventional materials in its work, fashioning decorative objects from ocean plastic, cabinets from aluminium foam and eyewear from human hair.

Still, the same fashion industry that's jumped on the eco-bandwagon with everything from vegan shoes to couture gowns made out of organic cotton is turning to unconventional materials such as hemp and turning out some surprisingly gorgeous gowns.

The unconventional sculptor has since turned his attention to addressing the lack of shelter for the homeless in his hometown of Oakland, by building a series of customized, tiny homes for displaced individuals, all made from salvaged materials.