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.
Not exact matches
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 egg
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 egg
as 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 object
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 object
as 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.