Sentences with phrase «in precarious balance»

Raphaela Vogel's exhibition hosts impressive sculptural installations, mostly poised in precarious balance, often in combination with pulsating sound or videos that feature the artist herself (* 1988).

Jackson's explosive compositions are held in precarious balance by a tight surface tension and overall unity.

Hounded by the evil Nulkana, threatened by the ruthless King of Thieves, menaced by the cruel Marquis de Vernoux, their safety hangs in a precarious balance.

When he angers a young Taliban fighter, Parvana's father is arrested and her house is raided, destroying the simple life in precarious balance that her family was trying desperately to cling to.

I feel like this outfit straddled the line between Willy Wonka - ville ridiculous and pretty cool, and it was the black cardigan that played the biggest role in keeping it in that precarious balance.

«While this is lower than previous estimates, it confirms that ice is being lost from around the globe, with just a few areas in precarious balance.

Previous exhibitions have included: numerous workshops, performances, talks and tours for children; paintings by Colin Martin alongside a projection installation by Clare Langan; works by Johanna Connor and Gabrielle Byrne, two West Cork - based artists; a collaborative showing of mixed media works by Cork - based artists Sandra Minchin and Chris Hurley; an exhibition of paintings exploring cityscapes and urban scenes; an exhibition of drawings and works on paper by Dutch artist Arno Kramer; a series of video works exploring an interest in the precarious balances that exist between the human body and mind; a selected show by invited curator Sarah Foster, linked to the West Cork Craft and Design Guild's 10th Birthday Celebrations; and much more.

Not exact matches

Tesla is in trouble because its balance sheet is precarious and its ability to raise additional capital is based on a growth story: what was a $ 20 stock in 2010 is a $ 260 stock today.

Edward Berckman suggests that the success of the evangelical and fundamentalist broadcasters lies in their ability to hold to and present this paradox: «The appeal lies in (their) ability to maintain a precarious balance: to communicate a sense of a threatened world while, at the same time, vigorously presenting an image of» (42)

The precarious balance of that 90 - mph fastball tipped in the wrong direction, and Chen could never stop allowing dingers.

Before you know it, your precarious position at the top of the triangle will be replaced by a more secure one in a balanced family circle.

The precarious balance of edgy egos and vaulting ambitions was maintained by the allure of opportunities to recoup, re-strategize and rebound in the corridors of the Presidency which have now fizzled into a mirage.

BALTIMORE — A glut of nitrogen washing over the land from car and factory exhaust and crop fertilizers is degrading water and air quality and even altering precarious balances in species diversity.

Shortages of food and water could tip the balance in Afghanistan, Iraq and other politically precarious states

The precarious balance that I've held together over the last year and a half has been successful, in part, because I don't ask myself these questions anymore.

Dr. Muller - Sieburg and her colleagues found that stem cell self - renewal is strictly regulated to successfully negotiate a precarious balance: too much self - renewal results in leukemia, while too little leads to bone marrow failure.

«The Post» celebrates what that means, tapping into an enlightened nostalgia for the glory days of newspapers, but the film also takes you back to a time when the outcome was precarious, and the freedoms we thought we took for granted hung in the balance.

The film also takes you back to a time when the outcome was precarious, and the freedoms we thought we took for granted hung in the balance.

If millennials are correct and their employment continuity is more precarious than previous generations, or else they really are going to prioritize work - life balance or following their passions over constant, steady employment, then the fluctuations in their work - related incomes year - to - year might make RRSPs a useful vehicle for those years of lower or no other income.

First vilified as killers in life and fable, then romanticized as symbols of freedom and environmental purity, wolves stir up love - hate relationships that may have little or nothing to do with their actual character and value to the precarious balance of nature.

Olsen has painted the subtle tones of the deserts in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the precarious balance of life and death surrounding Central Australia's Lake Eyre, and South Australia's Coorong National Park where he explored the complex inhabitants of the wetlands and the microscopic ecological drama beneath the water line.

Deft players can come up with some genuinely amazing ways of balancing their ladders in precarious positions that seemingly defy the laws of physics.

Also new is an account leveling system and unlocks, an addition that frankly seems out of place in a genre where balance is so difficult and precarious.

This, when combined with the finely tuned stamina bar, successfully balances out the number of fighters who come out swinging for the fences, as getting caught with a head kick in the middle of throwing a haymaker puts them in a precarious situation.

Intersecting in what appears to be a precarious balance, the shapes each represent a different voice, opinion, or language.

He has stated that he strives for discontinuity and tension in his dynamic compositions, creating a precarious balance between projecting and receding panels, varying sized bands, vertical and horizontal alignment (the title If refers to this property of unsureness).

Select group exhibitions featuring his work include Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Precarious Balance, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand (2016); Desire for Freedom, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland (2013); HEIMsuchung: Uncanny Spaces in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2013); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); and Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2011).

2010 Precarious Balance: Noguchi's Sculpture of the 1940s in Context, Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York, NY Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY Abstract Expressionist New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2010 Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s — 1950s, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY Precarious Balance, Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York, NY Different Strokes: Twentieth Century Drawings, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

Select group exhibitions of his work include Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Precarious Balance, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand (2016); Desire for Freedom, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland (2013); Heimsuchung: Uncanny Spaces in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2013); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); and Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2011).

Through a series of concrete and abstract geographies and their latent meanings, in A Staggering Territory Asbjørn Skou offers a critical perspective on contemporary urban planning and its consequences which are presented as a precarious terrain balancing between disaster and utopia.

2016 Puff Pieces, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY The Language of Things, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi - Fructose, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA The MAC, Belfast, United Kingdom Ambient Play, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Australia ME, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom Precarious Balance, CoCA, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand Die sieben Todsünden, Diözesanmuseum St. Afra, Augsburg, Germany Discomfort: Experiments in Furniture, Function and Form, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clifton, NJ

In her recent installations for Documenta 13 a series of masks were formed from computer packaging and drinking glasses balanced to create a precarious bamboo forest.

And although the 2017 Biennial may have more balance in gender and race, this still feels precarious, like a potential anomaly rather than the norm.

As in the best Hodgkin paintings, a tension arises from the precarious balance of illusionistic space and the purely abstract, tactile richness of the surface.

As in previous exhibitions (for instance, the 2010 exhibition Micro, Aureo, Adela at MACRO, Rome, or Tamaris at Château de Montbéliard in 2012), salt is a central element of the work, a precarious testimony of the subtle balance between form and the unformed, pure geometry and chaos.

In the former times presenting research as a strategy for artistic practice, had remained the sole domain of research funding from higher education institutions, as it is often a precarious and beguiling balance based on strategic re-formulation; Slavs» and Tartars» regional linguistic web - like encasing or Simon Fujiwara's intriguing journeys involving gumshoe archeology, travel and sexuality are dependent on revealing specific correlations; their instigations have won over funders willing to stay the course, a condition that allows a great deal of curatorial independence.

Katherine Tzu - Lan Mann uses acrylic paint, Sumi ink, and collage on enormous sheets of paper to create works that result in a «precarious balance of harmony and clangor.»

His forms often seem to be frozen in movement: they remain in a perpetual state of precarious balance.

The exhibition «Groundswell,» at Kala Gallery, revisits territory explored earlier this year in Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison's «Green House Britain and the Force Majeure,» although it doesn't contain the depth of research or intensity the Harrisons accomplished in delimiting the precarious balance between human and ecological forces.

I strive to achieve in my paintings a precarious balance of spatial coherence and incoherence by deploying contradictory projections systems (i.e. oblique, orthogonal, converging).

In her most recent body of work, Nushka revisits the feminine form, weighing the precarious yet fruitful balance between the traditional and contemporary.

Some of the figures seem to exist in a state of precarious balance between floating and falling.

The exhibition Alexander Calder & Fischli / Weiss at Fondation Beyeler focuses on the fleeting, precarious and exhilarating moment of fragile balance as expressed through the works of Calder and Fischli / Weiss in the early - and late - twentieth century, respectively.

Mixing influences such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, figuration, Cubism, and Minimalism, Salle is able to present the works as «mirrors» that reflect both the wonders and horrors of contemporary mass media culture, thereby creating in his paintings what Roberta Smith once called «a precarious balance of dystopian and decorative.»

In addition to upending the precarious balance of coastal environments, the unions say that the tourism industry is also negatively impacting traditional fishing and culture.

It is a precarious balance between the two global conditions, not because of CO2, which doesn't alter the eclipse temperatures, but because such a brief reduction in time and space can so rapidly impact the temperature.

Experts describe various scenarios for the precarious food supply balance in coming years.

They are in the precarious position of having to simultaneously provide passionate advocacy and support to clients in crisis, but at the same time manage the client's expectations from the beginning of the retainer — a difficult balancing act and one that demands clear thinking.

Irrespective of legislative action, corporate counsel will be required to strike the precarious balance between safeguarding data and discovery obligations in litigation.