Sentences with phrase «like steles»

Chase - Riboud shares her dark mysteries with white artists herself, like the steles and Surrealism of Louise Nevelson or the craft and knotted fabric of Sheila Hicks — and she has lived in France for much of her career while casting bronze in Italy.

While my family walked reverently through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, others were playing hide - and - seek and jumping across the tomb - like steles.

Not exact matches

The American Tour of Roads of Arabia contains around 200 objects, but there is a vast difference between exhibitions of 200 photographs or small paintings and a show like «Roads» with 200 objects, many of which are large stone sculptures and stele.

Whether investigating the phenomenon of what she dubs «Turbo Sculpture» — monumental statues of American celebrities and movie characters like Bruce Lee, Johnny Depp, and Rocky Balboa, that have been erected across the former Yugoslavia — or constructing modest steles out of printer paper emblazoned with digital distortions of images from pre - and postwar life, or making semi-autobiographical forays into a rave scene that united the youth of the balkanized Yugoslavian territory, Domanović addresses the ways in which we attempt to heal the wounds of history through conviviality and denial.

The fissures and fragments of concrete slabs standing up like remnants of ancient Maya stelae carvings give testimony still today of this displacement.

Three smaller side - chapel - like galleries are devoted to a progression of artists with Minimalist leanings: the colored steles of Anne Truitt, the slathered process paintings of Ms. Heilmann and finally a series of big, stuttering black inkjet X's on white linen by Wade Guyton that pledge allegiance to painting while crossing their fingers behind their backs.

The block - like forms, looking as if carved in stone, correspond with the contemporaneous vertical, statuesque stelae of the Personnages group of sculptures, and can be seen as representations of people who were close to her but no longer by her side after she left her French homeland for America.