Sentences with phrase «manipulates paintings language»

Rainey works with and manipulates paintings language and physical qualities to create strange other - worldly painted environments; worlds where time stands still, and gravity is no more, resulting in paintings that lie somewhere between abstraction and representation.

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At A+P, McMillian, whose artistic practice embodies a wide range of media and techniques, will discuss how he manipulates a multitude of materials, including those found in his everyday life, to create striking sculptural works, paintings, and videos that challenge the relationships between language, aesthetics and content.

As much as Wood is manipulating formal strategies in order to develop and assert his own language in painting, he also creates what he calls «new memories» by rearranging reality to suit his own desires.1 This overlay of impressions and memories onto his subjects results in an intensely personal catalog of images derived from his family history and individual interests.

Together, many of the works in these exhibitions seemed to beg the questions: Despite abstract painting's inherent ambiguity, can its most capable practitioners manipulate its techniques or language consciously enough to at least control its emotional temperature or, at most, to convey certain subject - specific messages?