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Robert Storr, in his catalog essay for the New Museum, notes that «the work's pictorial frame of reference has changed dramatically from that of the earlier works to a sleek, semisilhouetted semiabstraction reminiscent in some respects of the cutouts of Henri Matisse, and in others of Art Deco murals, while evoking the fusion of these influences in the marvelous rhythmic hybridity of Romare Bearden's collages and prints.»

He says, «When I created the piece, A Place To Call Home, it really is for me about this place in my mind where I come from because I think the hybridity of my identities is very hard to place.»

Jeneen Frei Njootli will perform with handmade instruments crafted from female vadzaih (caribou) that embrace and disrupt the hybridity of the Athabascan fiddle in Vuntut Gwitchin culture.

It's intimate, somewhat perverse, but, much like the hybridity of the biennial itself, oddly fascinating to experience.

«Working on a body of work that involves hybridity of ethnicities, race, styles and cultures.

I hope this idea integrates well with the concept and context, the hybridity of Cuchifritos.

This intimate presentation of Adkins» sculptures promises to illuminate the inventive hybridity of his practice, wherein reclaimed objects and materials prompt experiences of both critical reflection and powerful emotion.

Breuer's interrogation of process results in images that evoke a hybridity of photography and drawing.

Her works in the exhibition display the liveliness and hybridity of the Afropolitan youth, full of color and vigor.

The latter are the most ambitious in their hybridity of masculine formalism and feminine connotation and contingency — works such as «Anatomy of a Kimono» (1976), a massive multipaneled piece in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger, and «Wonderland» (1983), a large work in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and one of the finest and most poignant of Schapiro's homages to domesticity and traditional needlework crafts.

«Creating art that is honed from a conceptualism that pays homage to minimalist practices of the 1970s and reinvents identity - based explorations of the 1980s, Simmons came of age aesthetically in the 1990s and his work represents the fluid hybridity of that time,» wrote Thelma Golden in the exhibition catalogue Gary Simmons (2002).

The new version of an open society should take into account the plurality, heterogeneity, and hybridity of a Europe shaped by globalization.

Historically speaking, «grotesque» first referred to the bizarre motifs discovered in Nero's palaces in the 15th century — strange hybridities of plant, animal, and human forms.

Not exact matches

A Spanish setting in one of her films reminds us that «Spanish colonies were — and are — signifiers of historical mixture and hybridity.»

Hybridity, not only of those seeking conversion, but also of other people, also includes another element, which must be taken note of, especially in a pluralistic context where one is discussing conversion.

Recognising the reality of hybridity in relation to conversion means that what is needed is a deeper and more sensitive analysis of why a «change in alliance» has taken place.

It is clear that hybridity calls into question any talk about some kind of pristine, «original» identity.

13 For a counter example where Indian «natives» use «the powers of hybridity to resist baptism and to put the project of conversion in an impossible position» see the chapter «Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817,» (pp. 102 - 122) in the book by Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994).

Whether one looks at a Church of South India congregation in the «Harijan Wadi» of a village in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, or at a New Life Pentecostal congregation in the suburbs of Mumbai, whether one looks at a Syrian Orthodox community in Chungom, Kottayam, or at a Mizo Presbyterian Church in Mission Veng in Aizwal, whether one looks at the worshipers at the Indian mass celebrated at the National Biblical Catechetical and Liturgical Centre in Bangalore, or at a newly set up Baptist congregation among former estate workers in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, one thing that would strike even the most impartial observer is the reality of hybridity, hybridity which manifests itself not only in things external, but very often in terms of attitudes, thought - processes and historical self - understanding within the overall identity discourse.

What we have today in Europe is «hybridity» or a «Neo-medieval» system of various centers of authority.

In their joint cover letter, the quartet noted that they «would be able to do a better job than any one person could do» because collectively they offer varied skills in journalism, statistics, and business — not to mention literature professor Renee Ward's «research on monstrosity and hybridity,» which, they write, prepares her well «to interact effectively with various levels of government.»

One of Barbosa's conclusions is that this can be interpreted as hybridity, or a combination of two different traditions that yields something new.

Farrow's His Kind of Woman takes this idea of generic hybridity and cranks it up to 11.

While the electronic literature community continues to pursue the avant - garde possibilities of hybridity between physical and digital media, eReaders offer a mainstream example of the convergence of screen and page.

Isle of Refuge explores issues of nationalism, migration, hybridity and interculturality, as well as the representation of «otherness» in relation to ideas of multiculturalism.

From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.

However, by bringing in the work of artists from across the world, with a particular emphasis on the Global South, Prospect 4 reproduces the conditions which made New Orleans such fertile ground for creativity in the first place; a port city where paths converge, creating a hub of indissoluble hybridity.

Born in Nigeria, relocated to the UK; centered solely in drawing; large - scale drawings explore the malleability of space, politics of play, and cultural hybridity as a new nation; awards include Fulbright Scholar Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2012 — 2013); participates in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions Program; Queens Museum artist - in - residence.

The narrative draws on science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler's 1987 novel Lilith's Brood, which poses an ethical question: in the face of the human race's impeding self - destruction, aliens ask, is hybridity the means for survival?

The beauty that can emerge from cultural transfer and hybridity surely will be the overarching effect of these exhibitions, along with the particular political power of each artist's work.

In the post-Conquest period, casta paintings sought to document the varieties of interracial mixing in the New World in an attempt to classify and frame racial diversity and hybridity through a complex casta system.

This blurring and confounding of classification lends them a strange sense of hybridity.

The blurring and confounding of classification lends it a strange sense of hybridity.

But the project also emerges from my broader interest in exploring how hybridities (of cultures, races, and ethnicities; humans and machines; etc.) are becoming more apparent, but also more fraught and confounding in American society.

My current work is focused on the meanings of different kinds of hybridity.

For instance, ruby onyinyechi amanze, a Brooklyn - based artist of Nigerian birth and British upbringing, creates art influenced and inspired by the culture hybridity, according to BRIC.

Led by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Prospect.4 brings together 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's Tricentennial.

Her work often provides a portal into a third space [1], one of hybridity, where Crosby intersects her cultural experiences in Nigeria and the West to diminish the limitations of geography.

At the age of fourteen, Evans moved back to Lagos where she experienced a sense of displacement and begun to reflect upon her identity which was marked by cultural hybridity.

With its mixed and mistaken provenances, Dutch - wax fabric provides a sumptuous yet probing vehicle to evoke the complexity of concepts such as identity, authenticity, ethnicity, representation, hybridity, race, class, migration, globalization, and power.

Complementing the exhibition are works with themes of mapping, globalism, hybridity, cultural identity, and the tension between sacred and secular.

His work explores concepts of cultural and historical hybridity ultimately attempting to reexamine Western art history from a Guatemalan perspective.

By fusing the vernacular of Western portraiture with visual motifs found in Islamic art, Fallah's paintings speak to his own hybridity as an Iranian immigrant.

In this lecture, recorded on June 5, 2016 at the National Gallery of Art, Mercer discusses his publication and the future prospects of the critical discourse of hybridity and transculturation that diaspora artists have brought to debates on identity and diversity in our time.

Installation view of Saya Woolfalk: «ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization System» at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 2015.

Haji Omar has long used artwork to explore sociopolitical subjects such as cultural hybridity and the transformation of language, and to visually address philosophical and physiological challenges of the human condition.

; Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea; Hybridity: The New Frontier; Aftermath: Witnessing War, Countenancing Compassion; Seeing Now; Wild Card: The Art of Michael Combs; Dis - semblance: Projecting and Perceiving Identity; Albano Afonso: Self - Portrait as Light; and Pop Stars!

The same sensibility at work in my sculpture is here, too: a love of the serio - comic, a delight with pattern and intense color, as well as a surrealist hybridity that happily mixes sources and categories.

digital collages that explore racial and cultural ambiguity through visual hybridity, like the work of each artist in this exhibition, demonstrate that late 20th - century predictions of the end of traditional fine «art» practice at the dawn of digital culture were simply wrong.

Bey notes that «in the jour - ney engendered by the Atlantic slave trade, the Minkisi tradition found itself dispersed to the Americas... Thus the legacy of African retentions in the New World was set in place, and an Afro - Atlantic sensibility born of hybridity, transference and adaptation was created.»