Sentences with phrase «material ephemera»

The artists take as their medium the debris of mass culture to address the urgent question: what are we to do with reconstruction in a time where history and all its material ephemera have been subjected to extreme fragmentation?

The material ephemera and the oral histories that construct her narrative will be presented in an immersive installation, as a reconstruction of a space resembling the municipal archives of Bordeaux.

Not exact matches

Brischler's source material is culled from a wide swath of cultural references including book covers, vintage film posters, ephemera from long - out - of - print queer publications, and digital imagery in the age of social media.

These include artists» materials and interviews, documents related to conservation assessments and treatments, and ephemera associated with the creative process.

The exhibition brought together more than 300 works including ephemera and materials from Pettibon's personal archive.

Each artist's works translate perceptions of subdued emotions through muted colors, materials, and snapshots of ephemera voice as literal expressions of catharsis and of the mental healing process.

As can be seen in the rash of exhibitions recently or currently on view, the digital revolution has been a double - edged sword for artists who work with or in the medium of ephemera and miscellany; on one hand, artists can easily manufacture their own work; on the other, some printed materials may soon be obsolete, changing the nature of the visual landscape and cultural communications.

Online, in the digital recreation of the original 1959 exhibition Paintings by Clyfford Still, at www.clyffordstill1959.org, users can explore all of the works in the original exhibition, materials used to plan the exhibition, such as diagrams and notes, vintage installation photographs, and other ephemera.

Ephemera installed throughout the exhibition by Allison Rudnick, the department's assistant curator, supplied a sense of material culture on the home front: a group of nine chromolithographic postcards from several nations shows zeppelins looming cartoonishly over iconic landmarks, and two examples of printed cotton toiles de guerre from 1916, combining French patriotic and military motifs with a classical ornamental vocabulary.

They will present a «living history» of Riot Grrrl, with new work by a half - dozen contemporary artists significantly influenced by the movement's ethos, alongside a host of rare archival materials from its heyday — zines, flyers, videos, records, cassettes, and other ephemera.

The exhibition also highlights archival materials including event flyers by artists Keith Haring and David Wojnarowicz, as well as ephemera from clubs such as MEAT and the Clit Club that merged activism, art, performance and parties.

Muted colors, materials and snapshots of ephemera voice literal expressions of catharsis and a knowing evocation of the mental process of healing.

Organized by ICP's Assistant Curators Susan Carlson and Claartje van Dijk, Winning the White House: From Press Prints to Selfies features works by Cornell Capa, Grey Villet, Elliott Erwitt, Bill Eppridge, Chris Buck, Stephen Crowley, Ken Light, Mark Peterson, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese, and others as well as campaign ephemera, posters, and video materials created for candidates from John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Included in each forger's profile are their original works, personal effects and ephemera, photographs, film clips, and representations of the material and techniques used to create these convincing artworks.

[Lovell] works in a shadowy periphery between substance and ephemera, two and three dimensions, spiritual and material culture, self and other, populating this ambiguous space with people, places, and objects from the past.

The archival material and ephemera on view include banners, buttons, posters and postcards from the Armory Show as well as photographs of the artists.

The exhibition will include hundreds of photographic works, along with additional materials including books, ephemera and objects - created by the artist in many formats and mediums of photography, allowing the viewers for a fuller understanding of the diversity of his output.

The exhibition is further punctuated by documentary material including ephemera from famous actions, behind - the - scenes photos and secret anecdotes that reveal the Guerrilla Girls» process and the events that drive their incisive institutional interventions.

Working with found and original materials, she creates zines and books as well as archive - like installations that map conversations between texts, ephemera, personal memorabilia, and photography.

Ward's work represents urban American life through its physical ephemera with found material from Harlem, such as shoes and a neon liquor store sign.

It will consist of primary and secondary source material that will include: ephemera, drawings, photocopies, photographic documentation, newspaper articles, maps, catalogs, transcribed interviews (my own and pre-existing), photographs (of locations where these performances originally took place), and audio and video components.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

This comes together in sculptural form at the courtyard of his atelier in the Rue de Jules Ferry in Dakar, where found and transformed objects and materials including threads, fabrics, clothing, branches, stones and other ephemera are installed around a tree.

Thanks to developments in conceptual art in the 1970s, wherein artists, in the lineage of Joseph Kosuth, attempted to distill the artwork into the presentation of words and ideas rather than crafted objects — not to mention the recent vogue for archival ephemera as exhibition material — artists, curators, and museumgoers are well - acclimated to seeing pieces of text on display in museum galleries.

This year's shortlist consists of Knut Henriksen, whose dominating sculptures reference modernist architecture, utopian ideals and pragmatic solutions with dazzling visceral results; Vibeke Tandberg who has filled a room with among other things, 119 plaster casts of freezer doors as a comment on recycling; Lars Lauman who has crammed a room with ephemera from an era that seemed chemically obsessed, including E.T dolls and archival science material on acid attacks; while Mattias Härenstam has set up a pulley that drags a birch tree branch around the exterior of a room, blocking people from entering or exiting the doorway.

The Library Company was early to recognize this, acquiring an important collection of Revolutionary War materials in 1785, and has since built its collection of American ephemera into one of the most important in the world.

Carefully building a nuanced soundtrack whereby even the collective voice of its re-enactors never drowns out the source material, what might be an otherwise banal video collage eloquently reveals our personal response to nostalgic ephemera to be a whisper relative to the flat and highly constructed voice of pop culture.

Works include a graphic score and inscribed Buddhist singing bowls by Biggers; process notations and studio ephemera by Lee Boroson; two edible drawings, a musical score, and instruments for preparing a piano by Cage; three instructional certificates of authenticity by Felix Gonzalez - Torres; an agreement for a living artwork by Paula Hayes; a reanimation of Lucy Lippard's reference materials from the exhibition catalogue for 955,000; a book of instructions by Yoko Ono; five artist books by Edward Ruscha; a photograph by Xaviera Simmons (Bard B.F.A. «04); a muster contract, field desk, Zouave rifle, and muster roll by Allison Smith; a recipe by Rirkrit Tiravanija; eight compositions by La Monte Young; and a realization of George Brecht's event score Motor Vehicle Sundown (Event) with Xaviera Simmons and members of The Surrealist Training Circus.

Shinro Ohtake's feverishly collaged scrapbooks burst with found materials as free associations of images and everyday ephemera.

Additionally, the exhibition will incorporate a small selection of special ephemera, artist books, and archival materials, including documentation of notable dance and theatrical performances that were organized or commissioned by the museum during the 1960s.

The Archives include: published and unpublished writings, correspondence, photographs, moving image material, drawings, museum, gallery and exhibition files, fabricator files, exhibition ephemera, and publications.

In addition to the paintings, For All the Wrong Reasons, offers printed background material on Mousavi, his artist statement, and historical ephemera.

This publication traces the trajectory of Latham's practice and brings together archival material, including documentary photographs, texts, correspondences and various ephemera, in order to build a picture of the artist's life and work.

The exhibition will include drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, ephemera, and material culture that deal with changing conceptions of the body over time in Philadelphia scientific and artistic culture.

Huanca's installations fuse tactile materials, such as clothing and ephemera to create architectural collages that are performative in nature.

Alongside this, a sourcebook volume contains interviews with the participating artists, compiled with the source materials and visual ephemera better suited to this two - dimensional format.

Finally, the material value of printed ephemera will be presented as part of a continuous effort to document, collect and archive actions and accomplishments of the women's movement.

This exhibition features extensive archival material, including photographs, texts, and ephemera, drawn from LAPD's archives.

The show features rarely - seen photography, archival material, and ephemera documenting the crucial role of performance, fashion, and music at the Times Square Show.

On view in the East Building Study Center from September 30, 2016, through January 29, 2017, the National Gallery of Art Library presents an exhibition of ephemera and documentary material from the Dwan Archive.

Her installations, sculptures and collages compose multiple simulacrums with discarded materials; such as, clothing, shoes, and ephemera.

Drawing on inspirations ranging from Buddhism and American modernist painting to psychedelia and Amy Winehouse, Brooklyn - based painter Chris Martin (born 1954) «lets the paintings make themselves,» with often generously scaled canvases characterized by flat yet textured planes of bright, saturated color, frequently incorporating found materials and highly personal paper ephemera.

The documentary relies heavily on recovered materials and historic ephemera, charting the band's explorative, yet brief, lifespan.

The Museum continues to conduct research on Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe and welcomes any information regarding additional, unknown works by her, as well as supporting materials (e.g., correspondence, photographs, and ephemera) related to the artist.

They present a «living history» of Riot Grrrl, with new work by a half - dozen contemporary artists significantly influenced by the movement's ethos, alongside a host of rare archival materials from its heyday — zines, flyers, videos, records, cassettes, and other ephemera.

A consummate and prolific collector himself — of art, books and popular ephemera — Prince's work has continued to explore concepts of authorship and ownership in relation to the consumer materials of contemporary culture.

Using elements from the tangible world such a artists» materials, travel ephemera, tobacco and wine labels allowed Motherwell to construct a narrative for the viewer while still maintaining his automatic and gestural style of painting.

With these and other images anchored by thousands of pins to bulletin - board - like surfaces, his shallow reliefs form a palimpsest that teems with humble materials such as cut - up magazines, string, plastic, gold leaf, and other ephemera.

Recycling ready - made materials, repurposing common household items and creating art from the refuse of everyday life are classic strategies of the modern and postmodern avant - garde, from early - 20th - century Cubist collages of newspaper clippings and the ephemera of popular culture to today's recycling...

With MoMA's vast resources and a myriad of engaging supplementary materials and ephemera, this exhibition was not only a critical accomplishment, but a popular one, too.