Sentences with phrase «handmade objects»

He rejects conceptual art as the sole claimant of «ideas» and champions the decorative and intimate qualities of handmade objects with stories to tell.

The designs retain the beauty of the little imperfections found in handmade objects.

That said, it is as if almost no one knows how to create handmade objects anymore: the tradition of craft has been lost.

Her work is interdisciplinary with a creative process that often involves photographing handmade objects of her creation.

Choose from beautifully handmade objects, including jewelry from local artists, fair - trade items from across the globe, award - winning art supplies and toys for children.

These constructed images are then transferred onto handmade objects, directly onto gallery walls or meticulously transformed into large - scale paintings.

Huge spring and fall crafts fairs, along with smaller ones during the year, offer the finest in handmade objects.

This month features the work of Angela Davis Fegan, an artist who crafts handmade objects as a way to reflect upon the ephemeral and intangible nature of digital media.

The wood carvers» holiday show and sale features handmade objects by local craftspeople as well as woodworking and carving demonstrations.

Applying the strategies of mass production to finely crafted handmade objects, McCollum carried modernist reductionism to its parodic extreme by determining and performing the nominal means by which painting, photography, and sculpture are recognized as such.

The 8 cabins are beautifully decorated with handmade objects which very well represent Indonesia's rich culture.

Costing less than a dollar, this wood and green linoleum, one - of - a-kind handmade object struck these two artists as puzzling and fascinating, primarily because its function was a mystery.

In the self - titled exhibition artist Mario Ybarra Jr. will construct a museological tribute to his family displaying both fictional and non-fictional objects from his uncles» lives, including his and their photographs, artifacts, and other handmade objects in a faux - history museum at CAF.

When we think of craft, we tend to think of expensive handmade objects, often considered anachronisms in a world of mass production and mass consumption.

This exhibition, aptly titled «Warp, Woof, Zero, One,» documented the artist's transition from making handmade objects to using digital technology.

«Handmade objects emerge into a visual playground,» The Morning Call, April 2007.

For this new commission they have created a display of industrial ceramic production and handmade objects developed with Granby Workshop as part of their community - led rebuilding of a Liverpool neighbourhood.

Categories such as «folk,» «intuitive,» and «outsider» art have historically filled the lack at the heart of this qualification, yet they have done little to illuminate the worlds of meaning that have informed such heterogeneous styles and formal inventiveness exemplified by the drawings, paintings, sculpture, assemblage, wood carvings, and decidedly handmade objects that have come to define the field.

Perhaps, then, many of her various activities can be seen as escape attempts: from Lucas's dropping out of high school at age 16 to study art at the Working Men's College in London to her 1993 collaboration with fellow YBA Tracey Emin wherein the pair sold handmade object d'art from a retail space in London for six months to currently working — as one of Britain's major artists of the day — without an actual studio space.

As a faceted installation, DOMESTICITY serves as a counterpoint to an increasingly digitalized way of life, in which one becomes increasingly removed from actual handmade objects.

That said, there is a broad emphasis on materiality for its own sake: on handmade objects, maybe in response to a digital overload of virtual imagery.

The floor she organized was the popular favorite, lauded for its emphasis on mature female painters, like Amy Sillman and Louise Fishman, and lushly handmade objects, including several works by the textile artist Sheila Hicks.

Textiles have a long and revered history as religious, illustrative, and decorative handmade objects dating back to 10,000 BC.

To end the year 2000 in a most unsettling way, visit the Serpentine Gallery's exhibition of strange handmade objects that don't move or speak or have anything to do with electronics but are...

The paintings are characteristically handmade objects, roughly painted and asymmetric, with angular lines and varying textures, yet they are balanced by curves and soft colours that fade into the harsher greens and browns.

This portion of the exhibition — there are three, each with its own curator — was organized by the Chicago artist - gallerist Michelle Grabner, and includes the show's visual and material high point: a central gallery crammed with colorful painting, sculpture, and handmade objects as well as ceramics and textiles.

An exhibition and sale of glass, ceramics, fiber, and handmade objects by both established and emerging artists from Georgia.

Visitors will see traditional Appalachian crafts, imaginative high - end furniture, and one - of - a-kind handmade objects.

The title grabbed his attention and inspired this exhibition, which invites the viewer into Mario's universe through the display of personal objects such as family photographs, artifacts, and other handmade objects.

Craft artists create handmade objects, such as pottery, glassware, textiles, and other objects that are designed to be functional.

Once we realized we wanted to go about filling the world, or linking the world, with a set of rules, as opposed to filling the world with a number of handmade objects, I think one of the positive effects we got was that the world was kind of stabilized by those rules.

A craft store across the way was filled with handmade objects, clothing, wool and eco conscious Christmas decorations.

Expanding on Trombly's interest in the contrast found in handmade objects that normally are mass - produced, Over and Under focuses on the cloth itself.

she offers a really excellent selection of new and emerging designers with a focus on quality craftsmanship and handmade objects.

If you're an admirer of traditional textiles, crafts and handmade objects, you'll find travelling in the Trans - Caucasus countries (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) a real treat.

Although I trade in ephemera often (paper goods with a short lifespan) and that's reminiscent of transient digital media, I do believe there's something special about a handmade object.

The intimate can become large - scale and the dense can become airy as these handmade objects give way to a visual sensibility that is uniquely their own.

Søren Hüttel's installations combine neon color, various light fixtures, abstract sculptural elements, found and handmade objects, and mass - produced items in arrangements that suggest cultural, domestic and commercial interior spaces simultaneously.

As a photographic image of a handmade object, it embodies the timeless beauty of craftsmanship and historical resonance.

But whereas Duchamp's readymades, such as his famous urinal, questioned the artwork's privileged status as a handmade object, the new generation places art within the context of capitalist economy.

Using a range of materials, from found and handmade objects to plants and naturally occurring reactions, the works are brought together and move in the direction of a perhaps fictional, or not - yet - tapped, «third nature,» providing a «new take on the ways that natural materials can be considered and reconstructed for an audience.»

Cheat Chains and Telephones (through February 18th) demonstrates at every turn the power of both the handmade object and a good joke.

The subjects of her films and videos reveal their close physical connections to their environments, sites marked by legacies of colonial trade and military occupation in the artist's homeland of Puerto Rico, by recounting stories and engaging natural materials as well as inherited or handmade objects.

Ronay's works express the primacy of the handmade object.

Shifting from pop to high culture references and back again, Rhoades exploits the conceptual and sculptural possibilities that arise from the accumulated detritus and debris of everyday life: What at first seem to be arbitrary arrangements of new and used hardware, machinery, TV monitors, handmade objects, and constructions coalesce into a non-hierarchical field of visual signs and texts.

Applying strategies of mass production to handmade objects, McCollum's labor - intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art.

«I'm attracted to the sensuality of the handmade object,» he says.

«In an age of mass production, it is easy to forget the joy and beauty of handmade objects.