Sentences with phrase «from urban detritus»

Employing found materials culled from urban detritus and popular media such as postcards, wallpaper, stickers, and fabric, Wesselmann executed several discrete but related series of collages that variously depict figures (both anonymous and known), interiors, and still lifes.

Her expressionist paintings are inspired by a wide variety of art historical references, from Situationism and Abstract Expressionism to graffiti and cartoon, and her found - object sculptures assembled from urban detritus feel more playful and light than their material constituents.

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This relocation marked a shift from the gritty urban detritus that had been the basis of much of the earlier work to a rhapsodic embrace of color and geometric abstraction in a wholly new vernacular language.

His referential and detritus - like objects derive their meaning from a discourse based on everyday objects and the urban environment and the meanings they acquire inside a number of socio - cultural contexts that the artist explores.

Each piece loses its way in the midst of the various urban detritus and abstract illumination cast from a multi-channel video work (Period, 2018).

Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.

Richard Wentworth: motes to self Charlotte Poseneske: Early Works Peter Freeman, 140 Grand Street Both shows run through May 31 What's on view: A series of sparse Ab / Ex-looking minimal drawings and paintings from the 1950s and 1960s (Charlotte Poseneske); photographs of fences, grates, urban detritus made strange pinned up on the walls, and lined up on long work tables (Richard Wentworth)

«His subjects range from the roadways, urban detritus, and industrial backyards of the East Coast to the oil fields and empty terrain of Texas.

In contrast, the «stone» Caesar starts with is made in a huge rectangular mold, which he filled with detritus scavenged from industrial dumps and urban garbage heaps: PVC pipes, shredded tires, carpet padding, fiberglass insulation, aluminum straps, broken glass and splintered plywood.

The works in the show contain familiar elements from city landscapes, such as scaffolding, urban detritus, abandoned buildings, and public gardens, all addressing the hurried transformation of cityscapes closely related to gentrification.

The term Assemblage art was first coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953 to denote a type of work constructed from fragments of natural, preformed or «found» objects such as household debris, urban detritus, stuffed animals - indeed any (usually recognizable) materials, large or small.

Artists created charged works by juxtaposing disparate images sourced largely from popular media, such as Hannah Höch's 1930 photomontage Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman's Head), a work of layered images from magazines that speaks to the representation of women in popular culture, and Kurt Schwitters» Mz 426 Figures (1922), an assemblage of discarded newspaper and printed detritus, which evokes the urban environment in which he lived.

In 2013, Chagas won for his country the Golden Lion for best national pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale with his exhibition, Luanda, Encyclopedic City, comprised of twenty - three stacks of mass - produced photographs of urban detritus drawn from the artist's series Found Not Taken (2009 — 13).

Calligraphy drawn from the age of satellites beaming and technology blaring, Keith Sonnier's sculptures, urban neon and country trash, fuse the detritus of popular western culture with the suggestiveness of eastern imagery.

Salvaged from billboards, telephone poles, and the supply drawers of beauty salons, this humble urban detritus resonates with cultural meaning and a sense of place.

Incorporating various urban detritus, from cassette tapes, guitars and bins to car tyres, Lucy highlights the wastefulness of consumerism.

In New Zealand, Luke Willis Thompson's project inthisholeonthisislandwhereiam (2012) has quickly become part of urban folklore: it involved taking a taxi from Hopkinson Cundy Gallery, Auckland, and driving to a seemingly abandoned old house in order to wander around it, looking at the detritus of someone's life.

From a second - floor studio in Brooklyn that overlooks the warehouses and scrap yards that skirt the Gowanus Canal, 26 - year - old Dennison assembles sculptures that resemble urban core samples or creatures spawned from detriFrom a second - floor studio in Brooklyn that overlooks the warehouses and scrap yards that skirt the Gowanus Canal, 26 - year - old Dennison assembles sculptures that resemble urban core samples or creatures spawned from detrifrom detritus.