Sentences with phrase «making work about»

Instead of making work about his lack of social and political freedom, or perhaps the felt need for it, he made aesthetic liberty the premise of his practice.

Throw a copy of Relational Aesthetics in the air and you're bound to hit a pseudonymous conceptual art collective making work about unrealized artistic projects (right?).

A visit to Mexico for the Day of the Dead three years later influenced her decision «to start making work about being here, in the body,» she said in a statement.

Even when I was at college and didn't know anything, I was making work about myself.

In a conversation with Artspace's Shannon Lee, the Moroccan - born artist discusses her latest show at The Kitchen and the traps that come with making work about her home country.

New York artist and educator William Powhida talks about: his transition from writing about artists to making work about artists and the art world; his minor art celebrity; the Miami art fair scene, and what it's like being an artist who does Miami; his installation at Marlborough Gallery in which he created the character of «Powhida,» his alter ego who ruled over the show... and which made up all of the «work» in the show.

Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, she became a pioneer in the digital / new media / web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations.

Wayne State had three painters out of six graduating — the work was shown in one group show — and none of them are making work about process.

The Artist Parent Index is a searchable index of artists making work about their experience as a parent.

Michael Ned Holte, who co-curated the Hammer biennial with Connie Butler, called Greene «a very significant artist for a brief period of time,» adding that he and like - minded artists «were vilified by some members of the gay and lesbian community for making work about desire when they were expected to be making work that was political.»

Artists from minority backgrounds were (and still are) often included only when making work about their minoritarian identities, reinforcing their status as «Other» while simultaneously allowing institutions to wear the mantle of «diversity».

«I think people can be shocked to see artists making work about women that isn't for the purpose of the male gaze».

It wasn't a programmatic decision to start making work about childhood either, but I was very involved in a lot of things that had to do with her and childhood, which drew me away from the work I was doing with painting and pornography.

I'm not sure if I'm making work about loneliness and alienation or just private moments, do you feel like your paintings are more one or the other?

«I was making work that involved pleasure, and there was one segment of feminists who were against making work about female pleasure.»

The Impressionists were not overtly making work about «identity» or «the self»; nor were the Cubists, or the Fauvists.

For over forty years, Chaimowicz has been making work about the work of being an artist, and striving to dissolve the boundaries not only been art, décor and applied arts, but also between public and private realms: between art and real life itself.

Historian and curator Miwon Kwon speaks with artist Mark Dion about the epiphany he had while taking a dump in the rain forest, and how it lead to a brand new way of making work about the natural world.

Making work about discrimination and misogyny will always be important, but right now is also an opportune time to challenge feminism's alleged progress.

The two were encouraged to seek out artists making work about sports after a Google image search for «sports related fine art» brought up little in the way of contemporary art.

What was it like making a work about another artist?

The truth is gay artists in this country have been making work about everything under the sun for decades, and it would be shortsighted to only consider examples of «victim art» as representative of the whole.

Non-Chinese artists making work about Chinese culture or concepts, collaborations between Chinese and non-Chinese artists drawing on cultural references.

She writes at Me, Mothering, and Making it All Work about navigating an authentic parenting, conscious living, military family journey with as much grace as she can manage.

They used something real as a jumping - off point to make a work about the fragility of life that would hopefully cause audiences to think about the living conditions of people like Oscar Grant.

Opening: Survival Research Laboratories at Marlborough Contemporary As more and more artists make work about the internet, the art world has started looking to the technology sphere for new additions to art history.

Both tokenized as a Native American artist and marginalized because of his race, Durham makes work about racism, the history of the readymade, and discrimination, and... Read More

It became possible, necessary, to make work about identity or directed towards activism that also took account, in institution - critical style, of the conditions of its production and reception, as Meyer argued art must.

Here, Artspace's Loney Abrams speaks with the artist about the influence of Abstract Experssionism, society's ever - changing conceptions of nature, and what it means to make work about the body and trauma during a moment in history when these topics are at the forefront of socio - political conversation.

Several years ago, the iconic French author, poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous gave Grant one of her books, Philippines, as a source for imagery and entreated the artist to make work about the concepts present in the text.

He often makes work about things he doesn't understand and doesn't know how to do.

JACK MICHAEL «I make work about systems of power and the power of systems.

Similarly, Otto Piene affirms light as the source of all life, using fire and later electricity to make work about expansion and freedom — transformation through joy rather than war (Zur Geschichte des lichts, 1959 and Ghost, 1975).

Many an artist calls upon found objects to materialize his vision, but Nathan Slate Joseph insists his are «chosen» in the pursuit of making works about expansion and contraction.

In 2009 Sarah was invited to participate by The Farm Foundation in a new program where a group of artists, activists and scientists traveled to the Arctic Circle for 21 days and made work about the experience.

In an inversion of the «SILENCE = DEATH» slogan, VOICE = SURVIVAL brings together many of the most important artists who make / made work about the virus, from the 1980s to present.

Christian Marclay is the world's most famous living sound artist, and that's probably because he's endlessly creative in figuring out ways to make work about the aural that is vividly, resolutely, and entertainingly visual.

To separate these aspects of my practice into individual boxes would be taking a step back, similar to an artist neglecting to make work about a major part of their life, eventually that becomes unsustainable and the flood gates are opened.

An outsider listening to the lecture might think he has nothing to do but make work about his personal politics with painting itself.

In the past Fowler has used archive film footage to make works about, amongst others, the LSD - admiring psychiatrist RD Laing and the avant garde composer and founder of the Scratch Orchestra Cornelius Cardew, whose members included Brian Eno and Michael Nyman.

Molly Soda (b. 1989) makes work about girls and for girls in their bedrooms.

He makes works about painting that combine elements of his own biography with art historical references.

I made work about Jillian of Norwich, who was an Anchorite.

«Rebecca Morgan makes work about her love and hate relationship with the conservative farm town she grew up in.

Candice Breitz recounts pressures to make work about her nationality in a 2001 interview: «While German artists are not expected to make work about würst and Canadian artists are not expected to make art about ice - hockey, there is often a silent rule when it comes to the inclusion of artists from less mainstream art countries: «make art about where you're from, and about what makes you different... Or stay at home.»

Beth Lo makes work about family, culture and language.

Anne Stevens makes work about women's experience in the world.

Opening: «My Barbarian: The Audience Is Always Right» at New Museum This show focuses on My Barbarian, the Los Angeles — based collaborative group that appeared in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and normally makes work about how theater can have social and activist possibilities.

But I worry, if I go in a different direction and make work about politics, it would not be so good for me,» she said.

«I make work about everyday stuff that we all consume without too much thought,» says Mike.