Sentences with phrase «isolated life of an artist»

In an age of STEAM and the colliding of everything, the isolated life of an artist feels visionary to us.

Not exact matches

Labs provide artists an isolated retreat setting of soul - nurturing natural beauty, removed from the demands of contemporary life.

While living in the isolated rural area of Broken Hill, his mother, a practising artist introduced him to art through a diverse collection of art reproductions, stored in an old suitcase.

«Tatjana Gerhard (* 1974, lives in Berlin) invents ghostlike figures who hurl autistically on the floor or sit isolated and forlorn on tree trunks... Nina Weber (* 1980, currently lives in South Africa as part of an artist residency program) makes ink and ink pen drawings that are very dense and ornamental.»

Lubaina Himid has dedicated much of her professional and curatorial life to making Black artists and specifically Black female artists more visible, but here in Hull she is very literally representing Black lives, by for example overpainting porcelain dinnerware with the images of slaves that would have been the ones using them to serve food, or by isolating racist stereotypes in newspaper clippings from the Guardian, or through her larger than life cut - outs of Black servants in A Fashionable Marriage.

Many of the artists create to relax or escape, using creativity as a response to life's difficulties and as a vehicle to express themselves in an increasingly isolating and lonesome world.

Salt's recent paintings continue to portray imagery of America from the 1970s; Red Mailbox II features signature elements that the artist has depicted throughout his career — the nearly broken - down vehicle in the driveway, the aging mobile home, and the subtle signs of life disrupting and comingling with the isolated, rural setting.

Terence Koh's work (sculptures, installations, performances, and artist books) address the beauty and sublime transcendence of emptiness, the intertwining of all realms of life and death, and the constellations of dark matter that create the isolate worlds in which we live.

The broad range of vision engages one with its formal and narrative authority — from elegant self - contained cerebral works like On Kawara's «Today» series, in which the artist paints only a date of the year against a background of color, and Roni Horn's wall - sized photographic series composed of 36 progressive clown portraits of perceptual ambiguity, both artists neatly isolating individual permutations of life's sequential narrative, to Peter Fischli and David Weiss» collaborative film, «Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go),» in which the unconstructed imagery is punctuated by bursts of random narrative that addresses life's impermanence.

An important aspect of Altoon's story is the transition from a fully engaged New York studio artist with twenty years of showing at Marlborough Gallery, New York to an isolated Vermont artist living in an 1830's remote cape and fully engaging in a daily conversation with a lively art community.

Perpetuating the glamorized narrative of the artistic benefits of culturally isolated madness feels both outdated and detrimental to living outsider artists whose practices can in fact provide a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of mental disability.