Sentences with phrase «into black wax»

At the same time, Johnson's frenetic approach to mark - making — with energetic lines scratched into black wax, cracked tiles, and broad areas covered in graffiti - like spray - paint — roots the work squarely in a dystopian here and now.

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Draw them on your cake with black decorator frosting, or make musical notes out of chocolate — melt chips in your microwave, pour into a plastic or pastry bag, cut off the tip and draw notes on a sheet of wax paper.

Next, apply the black wax, pushing it into the paintwork to bring out brush marks and crevices.

Black waxed jeans or leather leggings belted with a tight black tee and a leather jacket — you're instantly transformed into Sandy... the one at the end of «Grease.&rBlack waxed jeans or leather leggings belted with a tight black tee and a leather jacket — you're instantly transformed into Sandy... the one at the end of «Grease.&rblack tee and a leather jacket — you're instantly transformed into Sandy... the one at the end of «Grease.»

But even powerfully evocative works like Rashid Johnson's Cosmic Slop series, a tangle of deep lines carved into black soap and wax, were rendered mute in The Forever Now.

Longo's most recent confrontation with the contentious nature of the American flag as symbol of both nationalism and protest is a 17 - foot high black wax surfaced sculpture that appears to collapse into or fall through the gallery's floor.

Johnson was soon marking individual faces into the black soap and wax he uses to make murky black abstractions.

Next come the Falling Men: wall assemblages that transform Johnson's signature materials of white tile, oak floorboards, mirror shards and black soap and wax splatters into upside - down stick figures who seem to fall through space.

Rashid Johnson's voluptuous black paintings, whose thick graffitilike marks are scrawled into a mix of wax and black soap with a broom handle, confront the more delicate and colorful improvisations of Michaela Eichwald, which look impressive but more decorous than usual.

Laurie Reid painted with acid directly onto a copper plate to create delicate, looping curves in «First Verse,» 2000, while Sol LeWitt made his loops and curves by drawing into hard ground wax with a sharp, etching needle in «Small Etching / Black & White No. 5,» 1999.

The visual stars of the show are two large gestural black paintings, Black Orpheus and The Berlin Conference, created by pouring a hot mixture of wax and black soap (a substance made from the ash of West African plants) into a 2 - inch - deep frame and clawing grooves into the material with a palette knife as it cblack paintings, Black Orpheus and The Berlin Conference, created by pouring a hot mixture of wax and black soap (a substance made from the ash of West African plants) into a 2 - inch - deep frame and clawing grooves into the material with a palette knife as it cBlack Orpheus and The Berlin Conference, created by pouring a hot mixture of wax and black soap (a substance made from the ash of West African plants) into a 2 - inch - deep frame and clawing grooves into the material with a palette knife as it cblack soap (a substance made from the ash of West African plants) into a 2 - inch - deep frame and clawing grooves into the material with a palette knife as it cools.