Sentences with phrase «in white plaster»

Originally displayed at the 1997 Munster Sculpture Project in Germany, The Dead Teach the Living (1997) is a group of computer - reconstructed heads cast in white plaster that show different racial stereotypes, which raises questions on how science has been used to dehumanize racial groups.
A cardboard box, a bath, a sink — cast in white plaster or concrete, all lose their individuality to become universal forms, and perhaps even quasi-abstract.

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And if her name has seemed ubiquitous — repeated on cable television and in the White House briefing room, and plastered on signs outside nightclubs, where her appearance fees have multiplied — there is this to consider: Unlike most perceived presidential adversaries, about whom Mr. Trump is rarely shy, Ms. Clifford has not been the subject of a single tweet.
On the journey to the table, guests can appreciate the landscape of the round, white Venetian Plaster and Plexiglas lined dining room with outer banquette seating, the 150 plus Lily floral arrangement in the center, the bold dark wooden bar with shelves extending to the ceiling lined with the finest spirits and the large windows and French doors leading to the terrace overlooking the famous Garden of the Gods Pool Oasis.
The Molded Plaster Floor Lamp is a traditional composite lamp and is available in french white and gold leaf finishes.
The excavations and body preservation techniques are explained in detail, with numerous black - and - white (and some color) photographs, many featuring the plaster casts and skeletons of people in their death throes.
The reconstruction included re-coating of the walls with white plaster leaving them stark and undecorated while the original stonework shows through in only a few places.
In the back room in the Chelsea space, the show also boasts a neon sign and video of a small fox, but her heart seems most invested in the gestural drawings and small bronze sculptures, coated with a chalky white patina that gives them a clunky plaster - of - Paris looIn the back room in the Chelsea space, the show also boasts a neon sign and video of a small fox, but her heart seems most invested in the gestural drawings and small bronze sculptures, coated with a chalky white patina that gives them a clunky plaster - of - Paris looin the Chelsea space, the show also boasts a neon sign and video of a small fox, but her heart seems most invested in the gestural drawings and small bronze sculptures, coated with a chalky white patina that gives them a clunky plaster - of - Paris looin the gestural drawings and small bronze sculptures, coated with a chalky white patina that gives them a clunky plaster - of - Paris look.
A painter and sculptor, George Segal (1924 — 2000) came to be recognized primarily for his life - size white plaster sculptures made from casts taken from living models which he began making in 1961.
And the towering white plaster Untitled (Stairs), from 2001, zooms up and down to nowhere, with overtones of Piranesi and Escher, like the flights of steps in trapped dreams.
Beecroft is famous for performances with large casts of nude women, and she stuck to her theme: In the main gallery, a long, hangar - like room, a mixture of black and white women, nude but heavily powdered, lay on the floor on their backs, interspersed with white plaster casts of women.
In these works, blue gazing balls, hand blown from glass, have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during ChristmaIn these works, blue gazing balls, hand blown from glass, have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmain today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmas.
Known for his colossal and provocative black - and - white portraits plastered in urban centers, JR will create a new, large - scale work towering 25 feet high on the exterior of Pier 94 at The Armory Show in New York City.
Made of brick masonry and originally covered in gleaming white plaster, the purpose of this so - called «mirror wall» may have been to reflect the adjacent frescoes of sacred feminine figures.
The gentle monotony of the two brighter canvases is interrupted with the exhibition title written in bright white on each of the surfaces, and a single plaster ball that is glued in the lower left corners.
Made from white plaster, the abstract sculptures by Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová in this new permanent display evoke raindrops, wheat...
Everything has been stripped back and painted brilliant white, allowing the spacious rooms to speak in a modernist way, but with original fireplaces and plaster fixtures being repositioned in to the 21st century.
[13] At Documenta IV in Kassel in 1968, he positioned a large, plaster slash as the centre of a totally white labyrinth, including ceiling and floor (Ambiente spaziale bianco).
The exhibition features examples of Twombly's sculptures made between 1948 and 1995, composed primarily of rough elements of wood coated in plaster and white paint.
From a white plastic electrical fan to a scattering of hand - cast plaster bowls in a rainbow of colours and from a roll of LED strip lights to wallpaper and swatches of silk printed with a photographic image of polystyrene, texture seems like a key driver in your practice.
Like his earlier works, these pieces are assembled from found materials such as pieces of wood or packaging, or cast in bronze and covered in white paint and plaster.
Pretty soon, you're taking in seven primo Claes Oldenburgs — an oversize plywood plug, paint - splattered dresses (pink and white) on plaster and a melting vinyl medicine cabinet, among them.
Last summer, Rachofsky and Faulconer purchased the largest sculpture from Koons's recent Gazing Ball series of white plaster figures with blue glass globes that, following its loan to the Koons retrospective opening this month at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, will take up residence in the Warehouse.
Highlights from the show include Royal College of Art graduate Jodie Carey's eight foot chandeliers made out of fluff from a hoover, Tom Price's animated, small scale sculpted plaster heads, Emma Puntis's mesmerizing miniature portraits, Tatsuya Kimata's ironic sculptures of everyday objects sculpted using traditional marble and stone carving skills, Doug White's majestic palm trees crafted from thousands of abandoned car tyres retrieved from road sides in Belize, Michael Lisle - Taylor's army uniforms crossed with straight jackets, which play to his 19 years in the Navy, and Boo Ritson's large - scale photographs of people she transforms into characters caked in thick paint, which have sold out in her second solo show only a year after graduating.
«What lured me to the material was looking at old black and white photographs of Hepworth, Giacometti, Moore and other sculptors working in their studios with plaster,» he said.
He began placing white plaster casts of people in environments containing furniture, walls, doors, windows, and other situational props.
The installation, which was originally created for Documenta IV in Kassel, Germany, in 1968, consists of an entirely white labyrinth, including ceiling and floor, which surrounds a large plaster cut.
55» above the floor, Kniaz has embedded a 2 × 2» rail around the entire perimeter of the gallery, plastered in and painted white.
Technically this room contained various separate sculptures from Has Op de Beeck's recent switch from grey to white for his spookily smooth vanitas realisations, which start from casts and are rendered in gypsum plaster over a wooden armature.
Hand - blown from glass, the blue gazing balls have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban and rural landscape, such as mailboxes and a birdbath.
Her first major solo exhibition in London since 2010, the neck might be the oblique entry point, but it's the mouth of the body which is the destination, with smooth organic forms in white marble plaster held together with denture - like metalwork: the gallery as a set of jaws.
This concept was investigated in his notorious «Achromes» — «colorless», white surfaces made from gathered or folded canvas, which was manipulated with a variety of plaster.
Made of foam and white plaster, they were conceived as 1:1 scale models of some future disaster - broken planes, masses of geological rock forms and subterranean tunnels are conjoined together in a manner that recalls the aftermath of an explosion or a natural cataclysm, whose colour can only be added by the events of a history yet to unfold.
Isolated and cast in solid white plaster, the sculpture exudes heaviness through its opaque, tomb - like form.
An hour later, the gallery let in the swarm, to find installers still uncrating a few of Koons's white plaster sculptures.
This performance extended outside the confines of the structure into the wider gallery space, containing wall - based neon sculptures of a muscular faun, black and white photographs of a naked couple in choreographed poses, text - based brightly coloured paintings, and abstract sculptures reminiscent of limbs, rendered in concrete and highly polished white plaster.
First came Ms. in January, then Esquire in May, then Newsweek and The New Republic earlier this month — all done in the artist's signature style, featuring provocative slogans etched in bold white letters on red banners, plastered over ambiguous black - and - white photographs.
Throughout middle and high school, Self was struck by how the women in sexualized images plastered across New York newsstands were almost always black, while the white bodies on magazines like Playboy and Penthouse were kept tucked away, only available for a price.
Koons seems to have taken a palmful of blue gazing balls and blown them out into the gallery, landing on classical statues and Midwestern lawn ornaments, which have coalesced in pure white plaster.
Photographed in grainy black and white, Epstein's high - relief sculptures are naked, grubby with London soot, ruined temporary plaster figures.
In addition to his paintings, which were sometimes dismissed as «high - art graffiti,» he produced sculptures assembled from found objects, clay, and plaster, painted white to suggest an affinity to Classicism.
Castelli: We [Castelli and his wife] went down to his studio and there I was confronted with an astonishing sight: paintings of flags, red, white and blue, plain, and a big all - white one; targets with plaster casts above them; alphabets; numbers; and all in a material I hardly knew — encaustic.
In Brody's Glory Hole paintings (2008 - 2013), plaster grounds are crossed with intricate, irregular grids painted in black or white, recalling the spiritual abstraction of Agnes MartiIn Brody's Glory Hole paintings (2008 - 2013), plaster grounds are crossed with intricate, irregular grids painted in black or white, recalling the spiritual abstraction of Agnes Martiin black or white, recalling the spiritual abstraction of Agnes Martin.
As expressed in the Law Times, he would rather «rein it back» to the good old days where advertising content was rather anemic — picture firm names plastered in bold black against a sparkling white background.
White walls have been making a big statement in the design world for the past couple years and it seems that Pinterest is plastered with photos of homes with beautiful, stark white walls (at least my Pinterest White walls have been making a big statement in the design world for the past couple years and it seems that Pinterest is plastered with photos of homes with beautiful, stark white walls (at least my Pinterest white walls (at least my Pinterest is!).
Along with our planked and paneled walls, I've also had white plaster walls and subway tile in many of our older homes since I was a little girl.
Colour palette Keep walls pale and neutral — ideally, finished in bare white plaster if your walls are in good enough condition.
The walls are venetian plaster, but I am trying to bring in lots of white accents to lighten things up.
But — I love how the coffee table blends with everything in my studio (can you see how the project table above, which was white, now blends with the Venetian Plaster wall color?)
I do like the look of exposed brick walls with bits of white plaster remnants so I was thinking that I could go for that kind of look by adding white paint here and there in sort of a mottled way.
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