Sentences with phrase «living tableau»

Cláudia Varejão's documentary on female Japanese shellfish divers comprises moody, living tableaus that capture informal portraits of the ama and their families.

Reflecting and critiquing the banalities, complexities and eccentricities of suburbia, Grobler creates a larger - than - life tableau of creation, self - discovery and inevitable fall.

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In that moment, it was not my life that flashed before my eyes but a tableau, revealing the ingrained patterns of my long practiced selfishness.

This year's larger - than - life Christmas tableau depicting the biblical scene of Jesus» birth, worth about 90,000 euros ($ 120,000), was donated by the southern region of Basilicata, one of Italy's poorest.

When that falls apart, she visits her own parents in Sacramento, Calif. (they're played by Gerwig's real - life parents, seen mainly in a Christmas - vacation montage that has to be the happiest tableau of family life ever seen in a Baumbach film).

Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's follow - up to Smoke, this largely improvised tableau of Brooklyn life sees Madonna, Lou Reed, Michael J Fox and more make appearances as characters revolving around Smoke's Brooklyn Cigar Store, run by Auggie (Harvey Kietel).

By the twentieth time its simpleminded mantra (bringing a life into the world instead of taking one can change a hardened heart) is summoned literally and imagistically, culminating in a grotesque effigy of a fallen friend posed in the middle of an indistinct tableau, Greenfingers has lost all power to instruct and become something at once odious and unintentionally funny.

Then each poem vibrantly and aptly speaks to that person's life and place in the tableau.

The rich waters of Tulamben have turned The Liberty Wreck from a mass of twisted metal into a spectacularly colourful tableau of marine life.

In and around this vibrant sessile tableau live all sorts of sea - life, making night diving here simply awesome.

You'll see examples of his work scattered throughout Union — from grisly photographs of his victims, to the «moment of death» tableaus he creates, capturing the last seconds of a person's life in a tangible, looping scene.

Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY Claxons (four - person exhibition, curated by Walter Robinson), Haunch of Venison, New York, NY Grey Area, New York, NY The Queen's Feathers (one - person exhibition), John Tevis Gallery, Paris France 2011 Peacocks and Bottles (one - person exhibition) Organized by Nana Kipiani in conjunction with Artisterium, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia Forever and Never, One More Time (two - person exhibition), Season, Seattle, WA Color Theory, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY 2010 Birdbaths and Birdhouses (one person exhibition), Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY The Visible Vagina, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art & David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Modern & Contemporary Ceramics, A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY Bazvalon (one person exhibition), Rose Burlingham Living Room Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Momenta Art (one person exhibition), Brooklyn, NY French Kiss, organized by Rob Wynne, JGM Galerie, Paris The Demoiselles Revisited, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL (Momenta Art booth) 2006 The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY 2005 Picture Window, (site specific, city organized), Baltimore, Maryland 2004 Hall of Portraits, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland College Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD 2003 The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY Sleight of Hand, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Kismet, The Work Space, New York, NY 2001 Bad Touch, Lump gallery / projects, Raleigh, NC (also traveled to Keith Talent Gallery, London, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, Space (1026, Philidelphia & UIMA, Chicago) Beautiful You, curated by Larry Krone, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, NY Your Humble Servant the Genius (two person exhibition with Rob Wynne), Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY Nijinsky, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1999 The Fin - de-Siécle Salon, curated by J. A. Poisson, P.S. 122, New York, NY 1998 Re: Duchamp (organized by Mike Bidlo), Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York, NY Bowie, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France (one person exhibition) The Whole World in a Small Painting, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Cadmium Cathode, Sauce, Brooklyn, NY

«Drawing together various art forms (video, sculpture, painting, and live performance) across the lines of race, multiple generations and interdisciplinary canons, Blues for Smoke places the idioms of blues, and other distinctly African - American traditions, at the center of the American tableau of creativity.»

But in the background of this stunning tableau, if you meditate closely on the painting, you will see a portrait of a powerful, other - worldly female figure, almost larger than life, with large bright eyes, wearing a turban, sharply observing everything, as if she herself were keeping all the other elements in balance, in some mystical powerful way.

Woman on the Run — a large tableau of architecture, sculpture, film, video, neon signs, audio and materials drawn from everyday life — provides a film - noir - like setting for a crime story in which a mysterious woman in Arizona is sought for questioning in the murder of her husband.

Over the years she has presented these works in a variety of ways - from life - size cut - outs of famous heads to grandiose tableaus and installations in which famous paintings come to life in our time with coke bottles, empty take - out food trays, etc. presenting these characters with humor & intelligence.

Riffing on the concept and role of public art, Nolan creates a shifting tableau of sculptures that, from one window to the next, morph in scale from table - top to life - size.

Campbell, Hagler, LaCour, Atilio Pernisco and Nguyen - Vo examine and represent life's varied scenarios through the use of the figure, creating tableaus that are psychological and provocative.

Highlights among the new acquisitions include Marc Camille Chaimowicz's groundbreaking Partial Eclipse 1980 — 2006, for which there will be a weekly live performance every Saturday afternoon at 15.00, and Cathy Wilkes's (We are) Pro Choice 2008, a large - scale installation which brings together discarded everyday objects to create an unsettling tableau.

Together with a number of life - size figures, the found materials make up the decor for a mythological journey of self - destruction to rebirth in an apocalyptic tableau.

Each painting is a set in itself, acting as tableaus for complex and mysterious dramas — whether they be from Roman mythology or Ofili's own life.

Winona Barton - Ballentine's photographs deconstruct 50's cookbook still lives, reassembling them as enigmatic kitchen tableaus with an ambivalent attitude about domestic space and women's traditional role in it.

Edward Kienholz's life - size tableau «Five Car Stud» (1969 — 72) depicts four automobiles and a pickup truck, arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a shocking scene: a group of white men exacting their gruesome «punishment» on an African American man.

These tableaus incorporate a wide range of images and objects from modern life, with the title of the exhibition referring to the shoelaces which feature compositionally in a number of the new paintings.

by MK Meador & Stephanie Cristello For her first solo exhibition at Carrie Secrist, Carson Fisk - Vittori has assembled a sharp collection of photographs — arrangements of ultra-faux still lives, as well as groups of combines, ready - mades, and assembled sculptures evocative of tableaus.

Selected exhibitions include: two solo exhibitions at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; «Bianca Beck,» White Columns, New York, NY (solo); «Heads with Tails,» Harris Lieberman, New York, NY; «Le Tableau,» Cheim & Read, New York, NY; «I Live My Thoughts,» Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY; «the same sight slighter,» Renwick Gallery, New York, NY; «Strip Stripe,» Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY; «Tompkins,» Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL.; among others.

For her first solo exhibition at Carrie Secrist, Carson Fisk - Vittori has assembled a sharp collection of photographs — arrangements of ultra-faux still lives, as well as groups of combines, ready - mades, and assembled sculptures evocative of tableaus.

It is a still life, a tableau.

Opening the scenes as tableau vivants, however, installations which feature a live model, allows an audience to experience them as I do but to add their own interpretations and ideas, thus making the story a shared experience.»

Abbas's troubling tableau draws our attention to the ways in which those unable or unwilling to deal with the complexities in modern society disappear into diminished lives.

The third in the Menil's Contemporary Conversations series spotlighting specific time periods or aspects of major living artists» work, this exhibit is the most tightly focused yet, presenting a single work, American Tableau, which Chamberlain created in 1984.

Vibrant designs of apparent simplicity spooling from a master's hands in the last decade of his life, each one a tableau of luminosity and power.

In her 9 - image serial To Kill or Allow to Live, the artist dons a Victorian dress and poses blindfold with her hands up in a theatrical tableau.

Viewed through the glass, from underneath, the piece evinces the look and feel of some of today's most pathbreaking still life photography, the composition - bending, drag - and - drop, chopped - and - screwed work of artists like Lucas Blalock or even Michele Abeles (if only a nude model or two could be propped up there as a tableau vivant).

Caldwell's work unfolds like a surreal psychological tableau, presenting a simultaneity of antagonisms and unresolved impulses: life set against death, the serious in concert with the absurd, the beautiful coexisting alongside the abject.

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As reservations dissolve and and trust is nurtured, Abrahamik composes a saturated tableau of color and light that washes over the female body, plant life, and domestic arrangements.

Rickshaw drivers perform a still life of suspended animation until a puff of wind disturbs the tableau.

Yet there is enormous range in his oeuvre which includes still lifes, landscapes, and human tableaus filled with dramatic colors and textures.

From Kiesler to Edward Kienholz's realistically recreated tableau of American life to the literal alteration of the physical environment with the outdoor «installations» of Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt and Christo, these variations and experimentations with architectural space and environment opened up the field of what was considered to be the «studio» or gallery space.

Popular in the 19th - century, the tableau vivant was a combination of fine art and theatre, with live models carefully posed and lit in a composition akin to that in a painting or photograph.

Joe Fyfe, a New York painter and critic who briefly lived in Paris, organized «Le Tableau» as «a pointed counterbalance to the rejection of French painting by the American artistic and critical establishment.»

This hung adjacent to A Vignette Contrived of Various Objects Depicting the Artist in His Fortieth Year, a tableau of an artful life that announces its affinity with window display.

For the British Art Show 7 in 2011, Darbyshire's An Exhibition for Modern Living at the Hayward Gallery presented a garish tableau of mid-range interior design, including telephones, lamps, stools and bookends.

Jean - Xavier Renaud's 2015 exhibition «Local Politics» included landscapes of the small mountain village where he lives, alongside a portrait of current French President François Hollande, and a tableau featuring the Pope — each picture representing a level of politics that affects the artist locally.

This photograph draws on the still life tradition, creating an eerily realistic sculptural tableau from collaged elements.

For Patterson's first monographic museum show in New York, she is presenting six tapestries and a life - sized tableau composed of six mannequins dressed in a «kaleidoscopic mix of floral fabrics» that «present a complex vision of what it means to be male in contemporary Jamaican culture» (image at top of page).

2012 The Re-Coronation / Art Live Fair / Coconut Grove Convention Center / Miami Tableau Vivant / Deering Estate / Miami

About the Jurors and Selected Artists Juror Tina Barney's photographs on view, The Children's Party, 1986, and American Flag, 1988, exemplify her career that began in the mid-1970s when, shooting in color with a large format view camera, she photographed tableaus portraying the daily life of her family and friends.

The Ostroff show with big, bold contemporary art pairs with the modern and mid 20th Century classic furniture in a hip, clean living space vibe gallery, emblematic of the changes taking place along 20th Street, offering a street view tableau of cool desirable furnishings.