Faded photographs, watercolors, confetti and thread are among the many materials Stewen has recombined
into poetic compositions that are at once visually arresting and charged with emotion.
Not exact matches
Amplifying the
poetics of the everyday, the marginal and the overlooked, Fyfe increasingly repurposes found materials — a child's kite, a discarded sign, or an abandoned banner —
into his near - abstract
compositions that are informed as much by serendipity as they are by any kind of high - minded formalism.
For over 40 years, B. Wurtz has been transforming throwaway objects found in daily life — shoelaces, plastic bags, food containers, buttons, socks, hangers —
into elegant,
poetic compositions.
With great attention to the range of the chosen materials and a nuanced sensibility for
composition, Wurtz has been since the early works transforming fragments of the ordinary
into sculptures of wit and
poetic composure.
Her
poetic canvases, vast semi-abstractions in which mosaiclike patches of color were linked by lines
into labyrinthine
compositions, interested artists of the American Abstract Expressionist school, who first saw her work in New York in 1946.
Using several media, from collage to performance, she explores the sensual and formal properties of everyday objects and materials (venetian blinds, fans, infrared detection devices, etc.), taken out of their original context and rearranged
into abstract
compositions, investing them with a new,
poetic meaning with political or emotional overtones.
Through the long process of nding the image from within, the artist channels brooding qualities from Courbet's mysterious Cave paintings and
poetic compositions by Albert Pinkham Ryder
into her own lush, multi-layered surfaces.
The artist is known for his photographs that transform ordinary subject matter
into distinct,
poetic images through his distinct use of color, form and
composition.