Sentences with word «housedress»

Thin braids the color of sheet metal lay down the front of her patterned housedress.

I looked at it and was thinking about it next to sculptures of mine of housedresses that referenced configuration and bodies or the lack of bodies.

Or, if you are staying in, your most glamorous housedress and robe To be honest, I am not going to be going anywhere on New Years Eve, so I'll probably not be wearing anything very fancy that night...

Hiding out in Galveston Bay, Texas, after fleeing New York almost twenty years after Katie's disappearance, David somewhat inexplicably disguises himself as a mute woman, donning a frumpy housedress, thick glasses, and a curly wig.

The Chicago History Museum took detailed photographs of Mary Todd Lincoln's housedress so that Johnston could re-create the print exactly.

As the two kid - friendly characters get into predictable scrapes, Betty stays home in the kitchen, her gams veiled in a prim housedress, as she labors over a mixing bowl.

She pushed herself up using the arm of the chair for support, straightened slowly and smoothed the lap of her dark green housedress.

She was dressed to shock, with a plastic shopping bag on her head, in a filthy housedress, and with a dead cat wrapped around either foot.

Pulling from source materials imbued with personal narratives, Eric N. Mack fashions his compositions from worn or discarded textiles, Sam Moyer combines stone countertops extracted from their domestic settings with delicately painted canvases, and Kevin Beasley drenches housedresses, t - shirts, and du - rags from a discount store near his studio in Harlem in resin to shape gestural, even painterly, slabs.

In keeping with Beasley's ongoing interest in combining the personal with the political, some of the clothing is his own, and the numerous housedresses are a reference to his grandmother and other African American women of her generation.

Kevin Beasley (b. Lynchburg, Virginia, 1985) creates sculptures and performances out of found objects of cultural and personal significance — anything from housedresses and do - rags to Air Jordan sneakers and football helmets.

All throughout, I tried to interject references, like guinea fowl feathers instead of a dove — the guinea fowl is native to Africa, a bird of protection and defense — or putting Zulu and Maasai warrior shields in a space with housedresses that come from a shop in Harlem.

Disused housedresses suggestive of empowered domesticity and abstract samples from the music of deceased»90s - era hip - hop stars are just two aspects of his work's evolving internal language.

She wears a modest, patterned housedress, which reveals a pair of soft, buttery arms.

To create this work, the artist dipped several housedresses, similar to those his grandmother wore, in resin and manipulated them into sculptural form.

A prevalent theme in the first episode is how domestic costume, specifically the housedress, can be read as a signal for sexual availability.

Fans of detective movies will remember that Morgan Freeman first played Alex Cross on the screen, in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, which gives Perry some seriously large shoes to fill, Given that he's spent the last five years playing an obese grandmother in a housedress

As in his earlier works, Beasley's figures are composed of clothing, much of it commonly associated with urban youth or the garb of specific racial groups: jeans, trousers, du - rags, T - shirts, hoodies, kaftans, housedresses.

Chair of the Ministers of Defense, 2016 Resin, wood, acoustic foam, jeans, trousers, du - rags, altered t - shirts, altered hoodies, guinea fowl feathers, wrought iron window gate, vintage Beni Ourain Moroccan rug, kaftans, housedresses, Maasai war shields, Zulu war shields, 1970s vintage peacock rattan chair, 154 x 162 x 84» / 391.2 x 411.5 x 213.4 cm

I see it in your work, in the kind of burden in your work recently and the confluence of urban and Southern space remade through your housedresses and other things.

Resin, housedresses, kaftans, 80 x 73 x 36 in.