Sentences with phrase «handmade objects as»

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.
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.
Skoglund's concept - based work typically deals with repetitive, process - oriented art production that includes the handmade object as well as kitsch subject matter.

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Handmade baskets made from sisal fibers are just as beautiful for your houseplants as they are for random objects such as scarves, toys, toiletries, or beach wear.
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.
And while it has been popular of late to display actual handmade African - American quilts, such as the ones exhibited in upscale New York galleries, Huckaby's act of repainting quilts disarms them as fetishized aesthetic objects while folding their weighted cultural meaning into the history of painting.
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.
The resulting sculptures play a game of visual deception as the handmade simulates that which is industrially fabricated: Wood disguises itself as metal and plastic, and sculpture takes the form of a seemingly utilitarian object.
The uses of imagery and materials in this exhibition are wide - ranging and experimental: rhinestones, sand, matches, cowrie shells, handmade set designs, appropriated sports footage, family snapshots, found objects from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and black contemporary and historical icons such as Harriet Tubman, Paul Robeson, Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, John Coltrane and Terrell Owens.
The 7th Annual Wooden Wonderland Holiday Craft Show and Sale will feature local artisans and vendors offering handmade wooden objects as well as other creative items.
The show included intricately woven canvases, handmade geometric glass objects used as paintbrushes, and Auerbach's signature ability to turn heady math into graphic beauty.
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.
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.
This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and objects; drawings; paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.
Alexandra Bircken is an artist who has attracted interest for her sculptures and installations that combine knitted elements with organic and lowly materials such as hair, leather, dried grass, latex and twigs, creating amulet - like objects with an arts and crafts aesthetic that reflect her background in fashion design and an interest in the radical aspects of handmade culture.
As for the installation that won her the Turner Prize, Marten used a range of handmade and found objects drawn from daily life such as cotton buds, coins, shoe soles, limes, marbles and eggAs for the installation that won her the Turner Prize, Marten used a range of handmade and found objects drawn from daily life such as cotton buds, coins, shoe soles, limes, marbles and eggas cotton buds, coins, shoe soles, limes, marbles and eggs.
Original photography along with found images, objects, and historical detritus, are assembled and mounted on handmade, sculptural forms; these devices operate as boundaries that create relationships and divisions between pictures, texts, ideas, and natural and abstract forms.
Without today's increasingly active craft - oriented community, products that we take for granted, such as numerous utilitarian objects built from handmade tools, rather than via machine or sweatshop, would have disappeared.
Helen Marten's work features handmade as well as found objects such as cotton buds and fish skins to create «poetic visual puzzles».
Utilizing the handmade as a way to take in and process life's experience, PEET views his object making as a means to translate energy from himself to others.
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 objectAs a faceted installation, DOMESTICITY serves as a counterpoint to an increasingly digitalized way of life, in which one becomes increasingly removed from actual handmade objectas a counterpoint to an increasingly digitalized way of life, in which one becomes increasingly removed from actual 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.
Recently, Artschwager has been painting and drawing on paper handmade from crushed sugar cane pulp, whose coarse texture is a persistent reminder to the viewer of the work's status as an object.
Textiles have a long and revered history as religious, illustrative, and decorative handmade objects dating back to 10,000 BC.
That said, it is as if almost no one knows how to create handmade objects anymore: the tradition of craft has been lost.
The 19 artists featured in this book have either sought to animate the handmade object by using it as an instrument of performance; to extend its impact through public interventions; or to propose their works as residuals of spectacles or happenings.
The wood carvers» holiday show and sale features handmade objects by local craftspeople as well as woodworking and carving demonstrations.
Filling the gallery with handmade objects and contraptions, Smith has made qualified proposals for the asterisk, and later the beard, as the basic atom for everything worth thinking about.
Both of their works have the quality of a rugged handmade sign post - visual art objects, but created as though they serve some utilitarian purpose.
She recontextualizes familiar found objects, handmade figurines, and brief emotive phrases, and contains them in a built environment inside hand blown glass shaped as body organs.
Utilizing a number of different supports including canvas or linen, fiberboard and marble dust panel, Olson plays with the notion of surface and framing as constructs in his work, at times, employing handmade frames and thick borders of unpainted surface around a central painted field that act as both a physical edge to the painting and call attention to its nature as both an image and an object.
Olson considers surface and framing as constructs in his work, employing handmade frames and, at times, thick borders of unpainted surface around a central painted field that act as a physical edge to the painting and call attention to its nature as both an image and an object.
Organisers say the B75 rotor blades are the world's largest handmade fibreglass components to be cast as a single object and the one being placed into the centre of Hull is one of the first to be made by workers at the German tech giant's new plant on Alexandra Dock.
Her intricate and intriguing sculptures bring together a range of handmade and found objects as varied as cotton buds to fish skins, to create poetic visual puzzles.
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.
Craft artists create handmade objects, such as pottery, glassware, textiles, and other objects that are designed to be functional.
About Blog A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools.
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