Sentences with phrase «liquor bottles painted»
Including rarely seen early etchings, letterpress printing trays and liquor bottles painted with his trademark cast of down - and - out urban characters, constellations of vibrant op - art painted panels, animatronic taggers, and an elaborate re-creation of a cacophonous street - corner bodega, along with many new projects, this first midcareer survey of the globally influential San Francisco — based artist showcases the astonishing range of McGee's compassionate and vivacious work.
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From being greeted by Katharina Fritsch's disturbingly hip, pony - tailed Händler (Dealer)(2001), with his one cloven - hoof, to Richard Prince's appropriated Marlboro Man photograph Cowboys, to David Hammons's arcing circle of glued together liquor bottles Untitled, to a huge room - full of Jim Shaw's profoundly weird collection of Thrift Store Paintings (1970 - ongoing), Unexchangeable does the remarkable task of restating the problem of art's paradoxical position between exclusivity and ordinary life, poised between rarity and abjection.
Apara's paintings of 40 ounce malt liquor bottles and tall cans of Modelo are rendered on the surfaces of black plastic bags — the kinds most often used by bodegas for their ability to hide the (alcoholic) contents held within.
His drawings, paintings, and mixed - media installations take their inspiration from contemporary urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles and spray - paint cans, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal.
Known by the tag name «Twist» for his graffiti and street art, McGee has also developed a career within museums and galleries, exhibiting drawings, paintings, prints, and large - scale, mixed - media installations that take inspiration from urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles, cans of spray paint, signs, scrap wood or metal, surfboards, and other found materials.
Berlin - based Monika Baer has made a number of paintings which use liquor bottles as a motif too, in the gallery's words, «flirt with the notion of a stable pictorial system».
El Anatsui combines the visual language of painting and sculpture in his draped wall - work Telesma, 2014, which intricately weaves together found objects from across West Africa — discarded liquor bottle caps, wrappers, bits of metal and wood — to reflect his interest in consumption and reuse, and address the region's colonial legacy.
The flattened scraps of metal — salvaged liquor - bottle tops and similar refuse — that make up Anatsui's tapestry - like weavings form a kaleidoscope that is part abstract painting, part collage, and part assemblage.
His drawings, paintings, and mixed - media installations take their inspiration from contemporary urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles and spray - paint cans, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal into overwhelming, space - transforming interior worlds.
By folding thousands of foil liquor bottle tops in several distinct ways, arranging them and connecting them together into sheets, he is able to transform what once was garbage into beautiful works that appear to flow like textiles and burst with color like abstract painting.