Not exact matches
Gangs of looters, numbering sometimes in the hundreds, have pilfered cylinder seals,
sculptures, urns, bronze tools, clay tablets with cuneiform writing, and even reliefs carved
into walls — all to supply an illegal international trade in antiquities that stretches from Taiwan to New York.
Highlights include videos from Bill Viola's immersive Martyrs series, about the endurance and infliction of suffering for beliefs (Earth Martyr, Air Martyr, Fire Martyr, and Water Martyr, 2014); The Propeller Group's sculptural freeze - frames of bullets fired
into ballistics gel designed to simulate the effect of wounds (Universe of Collisions series, 2015); Liza Lou's hovering, gatelike
sculpture covered in millions of gold - plated beads and providing no real protection (Barricade, 2007 − 8); and a commissioned
wall drawing by Tirtzah Bassel (Concourse, 2016) that examines how familiar emblems of airline travel — freedom, adventure, global connection — have become entangled with notions of vulnerability and disempowerment.
One of the most intriguing techniques that Jojo incorporates
into his work as an artist is a water - pressure - inflation technique, which he uses to shape metals
into one - of - a-kind pieces of art, including
wall sculptures, chairs, coffee tables, and other pieces of furniture.
Opening: «Pixar: The Design of Story» at Cooper - Hewitt National Design Museum This exhibition is a rare peek
into the design process behind the creation of Pixar favorites like Toy Story,
Wall - E, Up, Brave, The Incredibles, and Cars, including relics such as rarely seen paintings,
sculptures, hand - drawn sketches, and other original artwork.
His most recent installations comprise rods, chunks, blocks and chips of treated wood, which he arranges
into undulating curtain - like forms and explosive
wall - mounted
sculptures that oscillate between the seemingly organic and manmade.
Nearby, more stand out works abound, including a rare Bruce Nauman
sculpture at Hauser & Wirth (E10), End Tunnel Folded
Into Four Arms with Common
Walls (1980); an investigation of the relationship between drawing and
sculpture in the work of Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Morris at Castelli (F11); and works by David Salle, Cindy Sherman and George Condo at Skarstedt (E14).
Learn how Richard Artschwager takes paintings off the
wall and transforms them
into sculpture!
Weighty Minimalist
sculpture might have taken flight, crashed
into the
wall, and deflated.
To, thankfully, some of the very interesting explorations in collage, 3 - D printed art, like Ashley Zelinskie's reverse abstractions (see the photograph of her table - top
sculpture below) and paintings that extended from the vertical
walls into the horizontal planes of the floor.
In this early stage, Pape explored the degree to which she could introduce spatial ambiguity
into the notion of painting by making elements of the work three - dimensional and experimenting with either hanging the work flat on the
wall or setting it off against it in such a way that it appeared as a hybrid between painting and
sculpture.
Four more similarly scaled
sculptures stand in four space - saving cubbyholes, each of which has been cut
into the middle of each of the four
walls.
His invariable ability to disrupt what is considered «art» is blindingly clear from the show, removing art from the vertical
wall and placing it on the floor, turning painting
into sculpture, and experimenting with incorporating cutting - edge technology (for the time)
into his work.
The group exhibition is integrated
into the solo exhibition with works appearing both independently and on Assists, a new body of work by Stockholder which are interstitial; acting as both
sculpture and hardware, adjuncts to furniture or
walls, and as plinths for other works.
A central figure in the California Light and Space movement, Laddie John Dill has been crafting light and earthy materials like concrete, glass, sand, and metal
into luminous
sculptures,
wall pieces, and installations since the late 1960s.
The northern façade, in contrast, features a curtain
wall of windows that bring natural light
into the museum's galleries and allow visitors to take in views of the
sculpture garden and the surrounding cityscape.
Alan Belcher gives physical presence to the jpeg icon by turning it
into a ceramic
wall sculpture.
In his large scale
sculptures and
wall mounted works, Hodges challenges expectations of space and movement by placing common materials
into a new fragmented context.
Doubling as installations, his
sculptures incorporate images of nature and found objects including rocks and house plants to create literal portals
into nature against the gallery
walls.
The catalog of Richard Tuttle's solo show is transformed
into 24
wall sculptures.
2016 Passman, Melissa, Art in Focus, (interview), April Boucher, Brian, «11 Booths I could hardly tear myself away from at Nada New York», artnet.com, May 6 Sutton, Benjamin, «Nada New York Gets Nasty», hyperallergic.com, May 6 Shaw, Michael, The Conversation Podcast, episode # 135, theconversationartistpodcast.podomatic.com, April 15 2015 Griffin, Jonathan, «Reviews in Brief: Max Maslansky», Modern Painters, February, p. 77 Cherry, Henry, «Escaping Monotony with Max Maslansky», Reimagine (online), February Diehl, Travis, «Critics» Picks: Max Maslansky», artforum.com, May 5 Los Angeles Review of Books, lareviewofbooks.org, (image), June 21 Hotchkiss, Sarah, «Sexy
Sculpture Fills CULT's Summer Group Show», kqed.com, July 27 CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists 2015, catalog, p9 Archer, Larissa, «Review: Sexxitecture / Cult, San Francisco,» Frieze, October, pp260 - 261 2014 Hutton, Jen, «Max Maslansky», Made in L.A. 2014, catalog, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Miranda, Carolina A., «Datebook: Boxing painters, teen idols, and John Altoon's short career», The Los Angeles Times, June 5 Zimskind, Lyle, «Channing Hansen's Quantum Paintings are Really Knit», Los Angeles Magazine Blog.com, July 17 Finkel, Jori, «Painting on Radio Canvas», The New York Times, February 7 Khadivi, Jesi, «Curated in L.A», interview with Michael Ned Holte, Kaleidoscope, Summer, pp.110 - 115 Gill, Noor, «' Made in L.A 2014» at Hammer Museum displays work by artists like Max Maslansky», DailyBruin.com, August 4 Hernando, Gladys, «The White Album», catalog, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, p. 28 Plagens, Peter, «Exhibit a Creation of Show, Not Tell», The
Wall Street Journal, August 19 Berardini, Andrew, Art Review, September Dhiel, Travis, «The Face Collector», essay for Sniff The Space Flat on Your Face catalog, pp. 15 - 18 Griffin, Jonathan, «Highlights 2014», Frieze.com, December 19 New American Paintings, issue 115, Pacific Coast, December 2014 / January 2015, pp. 118-121 2013 Perry, Eve, «Not Taking the 1990s Very Seriously», Hyperallergic.com, (web), March 27 Griffin, Jonathan, «Made in Space», art agenda.com, (web), March 28 Smith, Roberta, «Art in Review: Made in Space», The New York Times, August 1 «Made in Space at Gavin Brown and Venus Over Manhattan», Contemporary Art Daily, August 6 «Group Show at Tif's Desk at Tom Solomon», Contemporary Art Daily, July 28 2011 MacDevitt, James, Object - Orientation, catalog, Cerritos College Art Gallery Dambrot, Shana Nys, «Web Diver: Turning Strangers» Online Photos
into Paintings», LA Weekly, May 2010 Beautiful Decay, (www.beautifuldecay.com), July 22 2007 «Allegorical Statements», Los Angeles Times, May 17, p. E3 2006 Bellstrom, Kristen, «The Art of Buying», Smart Money Magazine, May 2006, pp. 111 - 13 Impression (Ism): Contemporary Impressions, catalog, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA, March 2005 The Armpit of the Mole, a drawing compilation, Fundació 30 km / s, Paris, France
For his first gallery exhibition in New York since 2012, Neto will present a new body of finger - crocheted immersive
sculptures, installations and
wall works that fill both floors of the gallery's space, inviting the viewer
into an all - encompassing sensorial experience.
The
wall partially obscures the view
into the gallery space, hiding a life - sized
sculpture of an androgynous adolescent that is suspended from the ceiling of the main gallery room.
By placing each fragment against opposite
walls of the gallery so that the front half appears from one
wall, while the back disappears
into another, Paolini not only destroys the object quality of the
sculpture but in doing so creates an installation which calls attention to the architecture of the particular exhibition space.
Artist Diana Al - Hadid creates a singularly hybrid artwork, transforming brushstrokes on a
wall into architectural
sculpture, in a new film from the ART21 «New York Close Up» series.
At that time, Mangold, was making paintings on wood that resembled sections of
wall, work that might have evolved
into sculpture.
The gallery
walls of Tate Britain have been taken down so turning a warren of interlinking rooms
into a large, uncluttered space in which Rachel Whiteread's
sculptures are arranged as a single installation.
Around the
walls are images of Chinese screens that have been photographed, then turned
into perforated wooden
sculptures on a CNC laser - cutting machine, then painted by hand.
With the now established practice of projecting hugely onto several
walls at once, the white cube itself is made
into a
sculpture, subject to spatial manipulations.
She chases the images, away from the
wall,
into the open space, eventually creating
sculptures (check out our list of 10 contemporary female sculptors).
For instance, Nauman's 1968 video work «
Wall / Floor Positions» in which the artist transformed himself into a living sculpture investigating space by moving his body in various relations to the wall and fl
Wall / Floor Positions» in which the artist transformed himself
into a living
sculpture investigating space by moving his body in various relations to the
wall and fl
wall and floor.
Characteristically translating existing source material to prompt new readings, small
sculptures in cardboard and gold leaf reclaim old playground designs, cartoons from The New Yorker are reworked in gouache and a found text is adapted
into a new
wall painting.
In a group of
sculptures, the same filigreed chrysalises hang delicately off the upturned barrel of a pistol, or underneath the blades of kitchen knifes planted
into the
wall, the possibility of death lying dormant, just like the unborn insect cocooned underneath the objects.
Some works can be viewed as
sculpture that has moved to the
wall or as painting that has moved to the floor, though, at times, these boundaries have been transgressed more than once before settling
into place.
Abstract geometrical forms seem to dissolve the historical references and translate them
into complex spacial concepts:
wall drawings and architectural interventions are fragmented continuations of the paintings,
sculptures and drawings in the exhibitions space.
Rejecting the formalist influences of modernism, Benglis removes painting from the
wall and integrates color
into sculpture, capturing sensual experience and creating a visceral tie between the viewer and her biomorphic figures.
Scattered around were a number of
wall and floor pieces — the well - known automobile parts crammed and jammed
into muscular, abstract conglomerates, lacquered metal shards, a big twisted urethane foam work from 1966, and a room filled with the newer collapsed galvanized zinc
sculptures made from
At the start, they are moving
sculptures; at the end, they turn, momentarily,
into painted figures against the far
wall.
Inspired by Cubism, Nevelson took scraps of wood and other materials found on the street near her studio and assembled them
into free - standing and
wall - mounted
sculpture that she would paint a solid colour — most famously, black or white.
The exhibition brings together two large works on leaded panels of glass — two naked female figures seated in profile, impassive, emitting shooting stars — a series of delicate aquatint etchings, large bronze
wall reliefs and a suspended
sculpture, the shadows of which transform the gallery
into a barely perceptible dabbled glade, along with a stunning jacquard tapestry depicting two eagles in descent against a chalky sky.
Employing a range of materials including bronze, wood, terracotta, silicone, concrete and silver, Tallur L.N. creates
sculpture,
wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive work that delve deep
into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual.
No single piece demands sole attention;
sculptures sit patiently in the centre of the room whilst neon signs blend quietly
into the
walls.
Matthew Ritchieʼs (b. 1964) installations integrating painting,
wall drawings, light boxes, performance,
sculpture and moving image are investigations
into the complex and transient nature of information.
Back in his studio in Captiva, he began to collect gas - station signs and other industrial parts and transformed them
into wall reliefs and freestanding
sculptures.
Kyle Jenkins is a Queensland based artist whose cross-disciplinary practice expands from reductive painting
into a variegated discourse including
sculpture, drawing and music as well as photography and
wall painting.
Donzeaud's experiments in turning a plastic used for containers
into flat screens that adapt to the
walls of the indoor space are stretched out and over a frame; sometimes hanging like a canvas in «Untitled PE (Caring 01)» and «Untitled PE (Caring 02, 03, 04)» or jutting out of
wall and becoming a sort of installation -
sculpture in «Untitled PE (Caring 05, 06)».
Behind a sofa
sculpture that you can climb
into the back are mixed media
wall pieces next to paintings depicting what looks like a tabloid cover.
As our spatial relationship with such works is reconfigured, objects on view in Off the
Wall permeate
into space and challenge our comprehension of both painting and
sculpture.
We learn of the first major outdoor exhibition «
Sculpture in Environment» organised by the Parks Department in 1967, which saw Claes Oldenburg digging a grave in Central Park, and the formation in 1969 of City
Walls Inc. by Doris Freedman, the Grand Dame of New York public art commissioning — a project initiated to use and brighten the proliferation of walls of half - demolished buildings in the city, as the optimistic boom of the 1960s slid into the recessive»
Walls Inc. by Doris Freedman, the Grand Dame of New York public art commissioning — a project initiated to use and brighten the proliferation of
walls of half - demolished buildings in the city, as the optimistic boom of the 1960s slid into the recessive»
walls of half - demolished buildings in the city, as the optimistic boom of the 1960s slid
into the recessive»70s.
Employing a range of materials, Tallur L.N. creates
sculpture,
wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive works that delve deep
into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual in order to reveal new meanings on contemporary existence.
Nasher XChange will extend the museum's core mission beyond its
walls and
into Dallas» diverse neighborhoods, alongside key community partners, to present key advances in the rapidly expanding field of
sculpture, raise the level of discourse on the subject within the city, and contribute to broader national and international conversations on public
sculpture,» said Nasher Director Jeremy Strick.