Sentences with phrase «gun at the work of art»

Aiming her gun at the work of art, she portrayed a female version of a fairytale hero, or as a super-heroine of her contemporary adventure genre; populated by characters such as Emma Peel or Modesty Blaise.

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With an eye toward projected demographic trends such as these, the group exhibition The Future of America at the Hudgens Center for the Arts through April 28, brings together work by seven lens - based artists documenting various communities and subcultures among American teenagers and children: black cowboys and cowgirls, boys wearing fatigues and armed with paint guns, adolescent girls in their bedrooms.

«America's Finest» (1990 - 94) is among the most chilling works of art I know: An AK - 47 assault rifle is fitted with a modified gun scope, rigged so that squeezing the trigger inserts into what is seen in the viewfinder (including anyone in the gallery at whom the gun is pointed) a momentary recorded video image of violence.

The works will appear in an online and in - gallery silent auction that begins November 7 ends at the conclusion of the Guns to Art Benefit Show on November 17.

Given the fact that he hasn't shown any substantial amount of work in the States for about two decades — aside from a few group shows, art fairs, and his inclusion in the famously identity - politics - focused 1993 Whitney Biennial, where he showed a series of weapon - like wall sculptures (dealing with notions of surveillance, the police state, militarization) that were pieced together with vintage gun parts, carved branches, and coyote bone among other sundry items — «At the Center of the World» was a rare treat for countless artists, curators, and critics who could only follow Durham from afar while his work continually appeared abroad at august venues like the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and galleries and museums across Europe and Latin AmericAt the Center of the World» was a rare treat for countless artists, curators, and critics who could only follow Durham from afar while his work continually appeared abroad at august venues like the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and galleries and museums across Europe and Latin Americat august venues like the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and galleries and museums across Europe and Latin America.

After studying with Diane Arbus and working at Condé Nast's big gun magazines as an art director, Kruger immersed herself in turning the images of consumer culture into art; she has been exhibiting in museums and galleries since the 1970s.

Like Richard Shilling's use of twigs and leaves to remind us of the simple beauty of nature or the guns Sonia Rentsch forms with flower buds, nuts and sticks to raise the issue of environmental degradation and violence, Yulia Brodskaya utilizes paper — perhaps the most basic art material available — and a technique called «quilling» that involves twisting and folding strips of paper in such a way that she forces the viewer to not only appreciate her finished work, but also reconsider how we look at the raw materials she's using.