Sentences with phrase «material history»

At the heart of the 1968 project is an appreciation for the shared material histories of painting and the so - called decorative arts.

Harlem Flag was first exhibited in Material Histories at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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Archaeological digs in 1968 and 1983 uncovered part of the country's most significant material history from the period, including the musical instrument known as the Runik Ocarina.

Creating sculpture and installations in porcelain, found objects, and other materials, Liu's work responds to Chinese culture and material history within the context of globalization.

In partnership with Harlem Needle Arts, this exhibition interprets New York's African - American material history through contemporary pieces of needle and fiber arts which draw on centuries - old traditions.

Beasley's work is currently featured in «Material Histories Artists in Residence 2013 — 14» (July 17 — Oct 26) with fellow resident artists, Bethany Collins and Abigail DeVille.

In her new exhibition, Oppenheim investigates this particular material history as it relates specifically to women's work.

Material Histories features the work of Kevin Beasley, Bethany Collins and Abigail DeVille, the 2013 — 14 artists in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem.

All three can decide for themselves how much to outgrow material histories.

Scavenging material histories, the artist composes metonyms of a socio - political landscape in a state of entropy.

By combining historic and contemporary finds, the work presents a slice of London's material history over the centuries.

She explores diaries, archives, and other material histories, both public and private.

Attempting to impose a quasi-sociological order on the bedlam of a distinctively American subsistence, New York — based artist Justin Lieberman turns a flux of capitalist odds and ends — receipts, magazine clippings, found photos, counterfeit dollars, lottery tickets, small sketches, public signage, fridge magnets — into a subjective material history of late - modern life.

The images become real not just in a literal sense, but also in a metaphorical one: Raissnia's artistic process provides them with their own material history.

Hairline trails of color, evidence of intense, multilayered under - painting, give each work an air of rich but veiled material history, as the lines on a face or its glimmers of stifled expression might hint at an intense inner life.

In 2006, Barrada founded the independent cinema Cinémathèque de Tanger in a languishing structure in the Moroccan city's famed Casbah district as a way to engage with the collective memory and material history of Tangier.

Alex Calhoun engages with material history, standards of measure, and functionality to create sculptural works inlaid with sophisticated humor.

She is interested in material histories, and her works often move beyond the surface qualities of substances to tell stories about their previous existences.

This remarkable group of objects is presented together for the first time to coincide with the culmination of the Thomas Walther Collection Project — a four - year collaboration between the Museum's curatorial and conservation staff, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has transformed our understanding of the medium's material history from this era.

Liu's work responds to Chinese culture and material history within the context of globalization.

The Place Where You Live Multisite Visit (grades 3 — 12) Students explore Connecticut's material history through the objects and architecture at Connecticut's Old State House and the Wadsworth Atheneum.

It is designed to ease the transition from high school to college by providing the tools necessary for success through object - centered learning and material history, and it is inspired by a Harvard course taught by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Ivan Gaskell.

Curated by Jerry Spagnoli, a leading practitioner of the daguerreotype, this beguiling exhibition presents works by contemporary artists mining photography's rich technological and material history.

«Material Histories,» an exhibition presenting the work of the museum's current resident artists (Kevin Beasley, Bethany Collins and Abigail DeVille) is on view through Oct. 26.

The Studio Museum can be proud of its yearly dedication to studio artists — as with Leslie Hewitt in 2008, «Scratch» in 2005, «Usable Pasts» in 2010, «Evidence of Accumulation» in 2011, «Things in Themselves» in 2013, Everything, Everyday» in 2014, or last year's «Material Histories.»

«Material Histories: Artists in Residence 2013 - 14» presents installations, paintings, works on paper and mixed media works by Beasley, Collins and Deville, three artists who «share an interest in exploring and contemplating the particular histories and experiences of families, regions and cultural groups, as well as their own lives.»

«Speaking of People: «Ebony,» «Jet,» and Contemporary art» and Titus Kaphar ran at the Studio Museum in Harlem through March 8, 2015, «Material Histories» through October 26, 2014.

Should African Americans take pride in surfaces or, like artists in residence in Harlem, «Material Histories»?

Of the three artists in «Material Histories,» one has words as her materials, while another soaks, stains, and coats his materials to the point of burying their history.

It can precede a show like this about appearances to one devoted to «Material Histories,» in which the museum's artists in residence pile on what remains of hard materials and hard facts.

, MoMA PS1, Rockaway Beach, New York (2014); and Material Histories, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2014).

In this conversation, artist in residence Kevin Beasley and Lumi Tan, Associate Curator at The Kitchen, will discuss Beasley's practice and works included in Material Histories: Artists in Residence 2013 — 14.

Material Histories is the most recent in a series of exhibitions featuring work of Kevin Beasley (b. 1985), Bethany Collins (b. 1984) and Abigail DeVille (b. 1981), three emerging artists who have been awarded eleven - month residencies at the Studio Museum.

Marden's early paintings box the viewer into the moment of encounter, offering at most a sliver of spattered canvas along a picture's bottom edge — like a faint crack of light beneath a door — as a whispered invitation to ponder the work's material history and creative context.

This is cast from, and joined with, a found junk shop mirror that, by its nature, embraces arbitrariness, material history and the narrative reward of subject matter.

Linda Cunningham transforms discarded found materials such as structural fragments, a kind of «Urban Mining,» and preserves the qualities of found materials with the material history inscribed in their surface.

They are concerned with time, transience and contradictions and are distinguished by the qualities of found materials with a material history inscribed in their surface.

During the restoration, Theaster Gates preserved the material history of the building and left exposed cracked molding and paint blistering off dilapidated walls.

For this commission, on view through Aug. 19, the artist developed a multi-channel sound installation of compositions that subtly examine the material history of the two sites and their acoustic qualities, using everyday objects and acoustic environments unique to each site, and drawing on his practices of focused listening and architectural acoustics.

Alex is primarily concerned with material histories and function, continually placing pressure on the relationships between historical forms and contemporary materials.

Rauschenberg was drawn to the shape, texture, and material history of the pieces of cheesecloth commonly used by printers to clean lithographic stones and etching plates.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz's (b. 1972, San Juan, Puerto Rico) projects grapple with the slippery distinctions between ethnography, fiction, and documentary film and examine the symbolic and material histories of the communities she observes with her camera.

He is author of McDermott and McGough: A History of Photography and Robert Heinecken: A Material History.

Jesse Harrod's artistic practice is guided by a fundamental commitment to exploring the dense political entanglements of material history, queer - feminist survival, and craft practice.

So, amongst your holiday revelries, now is the perfect time to visit «Gold» at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace: a small but alluring show considering the material history and symbolism of gold through 50 pieces from the Royal Collection.

DRAF invites a writer to study the work in depth, from its technical and material history to its position in the artist's practice and contemporary debates.