Sentences with phrase «limits of the medium»

A «quiet giant» (New York Times) of contemporary photography, Liz Deschenes pushes the very limits of the medium.

Now and then we can learn much about the nature of painting thanks to the coexistence at one time of antithetical personalities, whose opposition reveals the changing limits of this medium.

A dozen new paintings that recontextualize the conventional limits of the medium will also be on view.

Breuer challenges the foundational notions of what constitutes a photograph, pushing against preconceived limits of the medium to discover new applications of photographic language.

The rough and awkward surfaces of Scott's «paintings» invite the viewer to consider the formal and culturally determined limits of that medium, just as the chosen images and texts disrupt our traditional notions of the body and sexuality.

Mechanical production and digital reproduction repeatedly switch places with one another, blurring boundary and pushing the physical limits of each medium.

Spanning a variety of subjects and genres, Penn's extensive oeuvre explores the boundaries of personal and public expression, and subsequently art and commerce, through compelling images that expanded the creative limits of the medium.

They never feel gimmicky and it's interesting that the film's structure is somewhat dictated by the limits of the medium (each scene uses nearly an entire film reel).

Other games that won tonight include Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, which received the Nuovo Award for testing the limits of the medium; and Celeste, which got the public - decided Audience Award.

Discovering or demonstrating the possibilities and limits of this medium is fascinating, and it makes the game design community (including myself) more powerful.

In fall 2016, the Acquisitions Circle voted and approved the purchase of all three of the proposed acquisitions, paintings which stretch the limits of the medium and materialize the everyday.

Sam Gilliam may have fallen into the shadows of the contemporary art world these days, but in the 60s and 70s the African American painter was at the forefront of the Color Field movement, pushing the limits of his medium.

Sam Falls is a member of the new generation of photographers who push the limits of the medium beyond the mechanical limitations of the camera.

He has been testing the limits of his medium for more than two decades, producing photographs in series with subjects that range from domestic interiors to the planets, from modernist architecture to abstract psychedelia, from specific portraits to generic internet pornography.

Abstraction pushes the limits of the medium and invites us to see deeper than first glance into the subject matter.»

During the second half of the 20th century, many of the leading British artists have significantly pushed the limits of the medium, creating work highly modern to audiences at the time, and still compelling in their energetic, graphic style.

«Ocean of Images» also illustrates the dangers of equating new photography with young photographers, overlooking some mid-career and veteran artists who have been testing the limits of the medium and doing some of the best work of their careers.

Stephen Shore, a well - known American photographer, has worked with both analog and digital photography as well as social media to explore the limits of the medium.

Charles Atlas is a pioneering figure in film and video who for decades has stretched the limits of his medium in collaborations with Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, Antony and the Johnsons, and Merce Cunningham.

The three artists share in common the development of investigations concerned with questions inherent to pictorial practice, and with the shredding of the limits of their medium of choice, which bears a strong charge of history.

Some paintings featured in New Work: Elizabeth Murray extend the limits of the medium beyond material and surface; hollowed - out canvases reveal segments of the wall behind, drawing attention not only to the fact of painting, but to the entire, combined reality of paint, canvas, and display.

He has extended the limits of his medium, forging new territory in a far - reaching range of genres, stylistic approaches, and techniques.

K: I think a lot about the relationship to the edge with painting and drawing, the limits of medium.

For more than four decades Atlas has stretched the limits of his mediums, forging new territory in a far - reaching range of genres, stylistic approaches, and techniques.

In Siegel's hands, Black Moon, which Malle described as a ``... strange voyage to the limits of the medium,» becomes a present - day science fiction without dialogue, traversing multiple film tropes — action, guns, lonely campfires, the end of the world — and, like its band of armed female revolutionaries, resists taking up residence in a fixed narrative or genre.

Pierre Huyghe pushes the limits of the medium's stillness by replacing the head of a reclining art deco nude with a living bee hive; not far away, «That Girl» by Paul McCarthy catches the eye of visitors with its unnerving similitude, engaging with them in a voyeuristic game.

«Sculpture as Time presents the work of a generation of artists who fearlessly probed the limits of a medium and challenged their viewers to experience sculpture in dynamic new ways,» says AGO Director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum.

Technological advancements gave artists the freedom to experiment and test the limits of the medium enabling new imaginings of portraits, nudes and still lifes; and street life and the modern world was captured from a new, uniquely modern perspective.

Creating sculptures from paintings, Kaz Oshiro pushes the limits of both mediums, merging abstraction, conceptualism, and representation.

Off Camera features a wide - range of work made by artists who set aside photography's conventions, cast off the limits of the medium and rely on invention when a straight representation of the physical world fails to meet their needs or expectations.

Atlas is a pioneering figure in film and video; for over four decades he has stretched the limits of his medium, forging new territory in a far - reaching range of genres, stylistic approaches, and techniques.