Sentences with phrase «like floor sculptures»

In retrospect, it seems to me that Plimack Mangold's early investigations of space should be credited with initiating a dialogue in opposition to Frank Stella's stripe paintings, which squeezed space out of paintings altogether, and the flat, grid - like floor sculptures that Carl Andre began after 1965.

Yau writes: «it seems to me that Plimack - Mangold's early investigations of space should be credited with initiating a dialogue in opposition to Frank Stella's stripe paintings, which squeezed space out of paintings altogether, and the flat, grid - like floor sculptures that Carl Andre began after 1965.»

Not exact matches

Let them hang their jackets, hats and sweaters on their very own sculpture - like tree and watch as your floors magically reappear before your eyes.

Robin Greenwood: Going back to something that Mark said right at the beginning, you said something about the internal structure of this piece [No. 1] feeling like it could hold the sculpture together, rather than the floor supporting bits of it.

An immersive, experiential work of art, LOVE IS CALLING invites visitors to enter a mirrored room with tentacle - like soft sculptures hanging from the ceiling and positioned on the floor.

Like Oldenburg and van Bruggen, Tara Donovan transforms the ordinary through scale and repetition in her floor sculpture Colony (2004).

Filled with some two dozen wire - woven openwork sculptures by Ruth Asawa, the big second - floor gallery at David Zwirner's West 20th Street space in Chelsea looks like a basketry forest, or a subaqueous garden, or a cloud of microbial life.

In the mid-20th Century shared unreality that was «Caroland» it was somehow viable, with intentions that were quite probably on the right side of honest, to make a sculpture — in this case, Stainless Piece C, 1974/5 — that sat flat on the floor and rose up no more than a couple of inches, so you looked down upon it like a relief laid horizontally (I made a few like this myself); and to make it out of a few scattered (or were they artfully composed?)

Entering painting and sculpture on the third floor, one now sees not the intimacy of the late nineteenth century, but the likes of Julie Mehretu, Matthew Barney, and Jeff Wall.

I had become like the humanoid at the core of that spiked sculpture, the hoops its nuts writ large, my sight lines its spikes, the patches of floor and relative clarity of its rectangle my prosthesis.

There are sculptures that act like paintings, sculptures that sit on the floor, and immersive installations.

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.

Like the minimalist artists that preceded him, Espírito Santo treats the floor as an integral element for his industrially produced sculptures, though he makes clear the distinction between his own work and minimalism.

This development can be seen in the floor sculptures Figure with Nganga (1984) and Untitled (1983 - 84), which show an affinity to works she made in the landscapes of places like Cuba, Iowa, and Mexico.

Among Crampton's most vivid conceptions are Louise Nevelson standing with three of her sculptures, seeming to be part of the one she is standing behind, and looking like a stern, aged priestess in her heavy makeup, turban, and floor - length mink coat;... Alexander Calder, a small, inconsequential figure lost in the incredible, mad mess of wires, ropes, strings, tools, and debris that fills his studio...»

A grove of David Smith sculptures on the eighth floor terrace is phenomenal (like a little visit to Storm King) and just inside the windows in the Abstract Expressionist galleries, the most powerful rooms in the museum, a Barnett Newman and Willem De Kooning are close enough to sunlight to pulse with color.

Wheeler and Turrell belong to the same cohort of artists that, since the 1960s and»70s, have produced immaterial counterparts to the pared - down sculptures of artists like Donald Judd and Dan Flavin (some prints by whom you can currently see on Zwirner's second floor).

Ranging from 8 to 72 inches high, the vertical box - like structures are placed on the gallery floor in an array that recalls graveyards as well as installations of minimalist sculpture.

Fred Sandback: Renowned for his Minimalist, conceptual sculptures, Fred Sandback's best - known works were made using colored acrylic yarn, like his «leaning» series, which used lengths of yarn, extended between walls and floors, to alter the perception of a space.

Return to the first floor and stroll around the sculptures as you like, choosing your own path.

The drawing shows a cave - like interior where terrazzo floors, pools of light and diagonal shadows of trees and totemic sculptures provide a space for reflection.

Anderson's work indicatively occupies the low floor, making giants of the viewer; her sculptures (like stage sets viewed from the «gods») combine arcane folk narratives, playful characterizations and linear structures sourced from video and arcade games, combined with reflections of contemporary urban malaise.

In Mrs. N's Palace (1964 - 1977), a 20 - foot - wide tomb - like sculpture with a hollow interior, mirrored floor, and artifacts from her life, Nevelson provides a glimpse into her own physical and personal history.

The artist made this specifically for this space at the Whitney — she wanted to create a sculpture that would pour from the ceiling, hit the floor, and seem like it was alive.

Pioneering fiber artist Sheila Hicks blurs the boundary between painting and sculpture with her vibrant woven and textile works, which she creates in many shapes and sizes, from wall mountings that mimic the format of painting to suspended pieces that hang from ceiling to floor like textured columns.

The Baltic gallery has a coup with this terrific survey, filling two enormous floors of the old flourmill with work from the past five years, including large paintings and sculptures that seem to materialise out of them like three - dimensional images.

, these include Rasheed Araeen's Chaaryaar (1968/2014), a sizeable sculpture of different - coloured cube - shaped wood frames; Hassan Sharif's series of documentary photographs with the self - explanatory title Drawing Squares on the Floor Using a Cube (1982); Saloua Raouda Choucair's small carved - wood sculpture Poem (1963 — 5); and Dóra Maurer's Seven Rotations 1 — 6 (1979), an infinity - mirror - like set of photographic self - portraits, in which Maurer starts by holding a blank square, which in the second in the series is replaced by the previous photograph, and so on.

«The Broken Jug: A Comedy [D3](left handed version)» (2007), a sculpture made from sheets of marine plywood and pine, is like Bauhaus paper cutting exercises made large and pulled up into space from the floor, rather than from a table top.

In terms of the wide range of media employed, the show looks like it could have been made by several different artists: sculptures similar to the ones shown a the Whitney occupy one gallery; another room boasts huge, scribbly pencil drawings on walls that surround a replica of a hearth («the traditional focal point of the American home»); in another, stacks of mannequins wearing identical outfits and wigs create a chute through which you can walk to view floor - facing monitors screening videos featuring the real - life character the mannequins seem to be modeled after (the artist's mother).

His sculpture includes black Magic Sticks, which rise up from the floor like thin, broken columns — or perhaps Minimalist totems.

Carl Andre (b1935) became a leading artist in the emergence of Minimalism in the United States in the mid-60s, making sculptures out of ordinary industrial materials — wood, bricks and metals — arranged on the floor in simple linear or grid - like patterns.

Forays into three dimensions, in slim curved or straight blocks, rest comfortably on the floor like Minimalist sculpture.

Gross's paintings are sculpture - like, without taking up floor space.

When making poured urethane sculptures like «CDCR», Ruby lays down pieces of cardboard to protect the studio floor.

After graduating from the U.K's Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2011, she found an eager audience for her painting - meets - sculpture environments, which often feature traditional canvases hung at unusual angles like her solo show, «Turner,» at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland, where most of the works adorned the floor of the Pepto - pink colored gallery.

The floor is adorned in large scale sculptures like «Pretzel Bike» by Catharine Ahearn, a humorous take on the prowess of materiality in an artist's studio practice.

From 127 tons of Coca - Cola boiled into dark coal - like substance to a life - like sculpture of Ai Wei Wei lying with his face down on the floor (are currently on view as part of «28 Chinese» exhibition at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami), He Xiangyu never hesitates to experiment and dazzle.

Interspersed throughout the floor, serpentine - like sculptures extend the installation into the physical space of the gallery, connecting the flat level of the paintings with the volumetric realm inhabited by the viewer's body.

The lighting is so dim that you must get very close to the drawings on the wall and bend down to discover the subtle details of the floor - based sculptures — like the dripping wax and the back - lit window in the shape of witchy eyes.

From there, he begins building his sculptures, allowing them to flow naturally in every direction like a coral reef spreading over the ocean floor.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

But the most popular attraction of the night was the fourth floor where monumental sculptures like Puppy, Balloon, and Play Doh could be Instagramed without interruption.

Like Chris Burden, the performance artist whose retrospective last fall filled all five floors of the New Museum, Oppenheim began his career exploring the aesthetic of self - inflicted pain, and later moved on to large - scale sculpture that straddled art, architecture and landscape design.

Part of a network of art sites on island developed by Japanese businessman and art collector Soichiro Fukutake, the museum features polished concrete chambers housing the work of three artists: a selection of Claude Monet's water lily paintings (the skylight and glistening mosaic floor creates a shrine - like experience); an installation by Walter de Maria that consists of a central, polished granite sphere sitting on a staircase with surrounding gilded wall sculptures; and three James Turrell light works.

The first sculpture appears to be a random assemblage of a wooden scaffold with what look like shipping containers hanging off it at precarious angles, one even has its «innards» of polystyrene poised to fall on to the floor.

Miyamoto's other sculpture, «Star Piece» (1979), is a five - pointed star, nine feet in either direction, composed of tightly coiled brown industrial paper, lying on the floor like a spread - eagled body.

And Stairs, 2016, cousin to The stairs, 2011, currently installed on the grounds of the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, consists of an extended, centipede - like structure stretched horizontally across the floor.

The 50 volumes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's collected writings run the length of Vane gallery in Newcastle town centre, like an errant Carl Andre floor sculpture.

One of the highlights of the season, they cleverly re-contextualised the work for an FIAC audience, turning the stand into a mirror - like infinity lounge and inviting people to sit and observe reflections of themselves and others — and of course the colourful flashing light sculpture which took prime position in the centre, hanging from above and almost touching the floor.

A floor sculpture by Alexandre Brandao recalled Japanese cuisine with a large pile of tubes that looked uncannily like squid in noodles.