Sentences with phrase «metaphors for contemporary»

These complications act as metaphors for contemporary American society and life in the Internet age.

For help, see Susan B. Thistlewaithe, Metaphors for the Contemporary Church (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1983); Avery Dulles, Models of the Church (New York: Doubleday, 1974); and Paul Minear, Images of the Church in the New Testament (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960).

If 0.5 mm is clearly a metaphor for the contemporary Japanese condition, mega-popular blogger and author Han Han's debut film, Houhui Wuqi (The Continent, 2014) is clearly his vision of China.

The works build through a stream of images and ideas with a dreamlike, surreal feeling, to which Heffernan contributes by titling each one «Self Portrait...» In her recent paintings, the figure set in a tortured landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experience.

What emerges is a hybrid of the mechanical the organic — a metaphor for contemporary human reality.»

Not exact matches

In short, I intend to give to this metaphor for the ministry content out of a doctrine of the Christian life that includes the best of each major contemporary version of the Christian in mission.

What would it mean to go to the scriptures — for example, to the Pauline metaphor of the body and its members — with such contemporary experiences and questions fully present and articulated?

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

The metaphor for God that is most difficult to assess for its contemporary usefulness is «father.»

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

The misery - sodden entertainment of contemporary electioneering is ushered in as a dismal metaphor for Machiavellian, self - serving corruption in all walks of life in David Gordon Green's down - the - middle classical political comedy, Our Brand Is Crisis.

Like Arthur Miller, Howe leaves readers wondering exactly how much of a metaphor the Salem witch trials might be for contemporary goings - ons.

Helicopter (1985), a title ascribed after the painting was finished, offers a contemporary urban metaphor for the abstract affect created by Manister's rhythmic mark combined with flashes of vivid color.

Sterling Ruby's interdisciplinary practice incorporates sculptures, collages, ceramics, paintings and videos, which act as markers and metaphors for the burdens that plague contemporary existence.

Juxtaposing images of the First World War memorial in the churchyard with the cranes and girders of contemporary urban development, Emin's personal heartache now becomes a metaphor for the lives fractured by the conflict, the passage of time and for the loss and eradication — as well as survival and perpetuation — of history and memory within the built environment.

2002 «Untitled,» Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY «Doors: Image and Metaphor in Contemporary Art,» New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

Tags: California, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Concept Center for Visual Studies, Don Voisine, Gregory Lind Gallery, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Maine, Maine College of Art, McKenzie Fine Art, Metaphor Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Peabody Essex Museum, Portland School of Art, PP Projects, RMIT University, University of Richmond

In Conversation with Dr. Kostas Prapoglou Conveying cogent metaphors of an island's historico - political mythologies, Casts of an island (2016), is the solo exhibition by Cypriot - born, Athens - based artist Socratis Socratous, currently on view at Point Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Meanwhile, the sharp contrast between the formal language of the works and their content creates a dynamic that is a perfect metaphor for the artist's quest for utopia within the spiritual ruins of contemporary consumer society.

It is perhaps worrying that Christopher Wool's direct and assertive works speak to our own zeitgeist most directly: his message of Riot finds many sympathisers in the febrile atmosphere of contemporary US politics, while Hole in Head — displayed right behind Noland's bullet - riddled cowboy — is a rather apt metaphor for many people's collective experience of Donald Trump's presidency.

Rituals since 1851», Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy (2015); «Chercher le Garçon», MAC / VAL, Paris, France (2015); «Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s - 1990s», Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (2015); «Progress», The Foundling Museum, London, England (2014); «Study from the Human Body», Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2014); «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists», Frankfurt MMK, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England (2014); «Education», Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland (2013); «Victoriana: The Art of Revival», Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England (2013); «Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa», Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA (2013); «The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945», Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2012); «Six Yards, Guaranteed Real Dutch Wax Exhibition», Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands (2012); and «Migrations: Journeys into British Art», Tate Britain, London, England (2012).

Conveying cogent metaphors of an island's historico - political mythologies, Casts of an island (2016), is the solo exhibition by Cypriot - born, Athens - based artist Socratis Socratous, currently on view at Point Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Cyprus.

The exhibition illustrates the ways in which the hours of darkness continue to provoke the contemporary imagination, providing apt metaphors for the diversity and intersections of human experience along with the anxious tenor of the day.

Symbolic Space: The Intersection of Art & Architecture Through the Use of Metaphor, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York

«I think contagious is a really good metaphor for what we're trying to do here at the Contemporary Arts Center; inspiring people through contemporary art,» Contemporary Arts Center; inspiring people through contemporary art,» contemporary art,» Platow says.

She employs «scientific information» as an abstract, open metaphor for her diverse narrative, which functions simultaneously as a self — portrait and an insight into contemporary Israeli life.

1972 Bestiary, Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY Recent Figure Sculpture, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Artists» Benefit for Civil Liberties, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Selections from the Aldrich Museum Collection, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT After Surrealism: Metaphors and Similes, John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

2007 Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Naples Museum of Art, Naples FL & Arkansas Arts Ctr, Little Rock, AR 2006 cARTalog, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA 2005 Holiday Group Show, George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Pulp Friction: New Takes on Paper, Betty Barker Gallery, New Canaan, CT 2005 Span, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY 2005 Drawing National, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD 2005 Now: Here: This, Studio Gallery 88, New York, NY 2003 Cycles, Patterns, Intervals, Fredericksburg Ctr for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA 2002 Memory and Metaphor, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 2001 Drawing National, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD 2001 Women and Books: Uncovered, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC 2000 The Collectors» Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK 1999 From Hairbread to Wishing Machines, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada 1998 Priva B. Gross International, Works on / of Paper, City University of NY, Queensborough College, Queens, NY.

Reflecting on her various travels, Dwan wrote, «I see the journeys as both adventure and metaphor of my ongoing quest for that which is beyond the clamor and the inherent struggles of contemporary life.»

If it has more to do with metaphors for spiritual crises, that, too, seems contemporary.

My recent paintings and sculptures focus on the African - American experience of navigating public spaces while remaining buoyant within them... Working beyond the physical image of the body, objects of buoyancy, and navigation become metaphors for selfhood, resilience, and the sanity required in the turbulent oceans of contemporary America.»

2005 The Gallery, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England Symbolic Space: The Intersection of Art and Architecture Through the Use of Metaphor, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA

Combining video, animation, light sculpture and interactive media, the exhibition takes the metaphor of «the voyage» as a starting point for an exploration into the ways contemporary artists are expanding on the human perceptual experience.

For the show, Birte Kleemann, Director at The Pace Gallery, selected works that examine the treatment of Mercy as represented from devotional paintings to the use of the artist's body as a metaphor for the suffering of humankind in contemporary worFor the show, Birte Kleemann, Director at The Pace Gallery, selected works that examine the treatment of Mercy as represented from devotional paintings to the use of the artist's body as a metaphor for the suffering of humankind in contemporary worfor the suffering of humankind in contemporary works.

In Big Windows: Skin: Portals, Nicola López draws on her recent monumental installation In Gentle Defiance of Gravity and Form at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, to explore architecture as a metaphor for the human experience on both societal and individual levels.

Reski enacts his own succumbing to the onslaught of contemporary pop - cultural imagery as a theatrical backdrop in which to plant images that distil desperation into metaphors for desperation.

The winged form holds a shining heart cupped in its hands — the perfect metaphor, says David Rubin, curator of contemporary art, for the work in «San Antonio Collects: Contempocontemporary art, for the work in «San Antonio Collects: ContemporaryContemporary.»

but they are., Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Lineup, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Pareidolia, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA Will's Creek Survey 2004, Allegany Arts Council Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD New American Talent 19 (two year traveling exhibition), Arthouse, Austin, TX (catalogue) One Line Collective, The Flatiron Building, Chicago, IL Lines, Angles, Curves, Adobe Gallery, Castro Valley, CA 2003 Closer Than You Think, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA Relish, works / san jose, San Jose, CA Dark Spring, Drive Thru Studios, Chicago, IL 2002 Western States Small Works, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA Ag: works25, works / san jose, San Jose, CA 1999 Introductions 1999, The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Mills College Museum, Oakland, CA Bay Area M.F.A., The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA Hubub, works / san jose, San Jose, CA 1998 Rhythm, Gesture & Metaphor, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT Spanning the Bay, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA 1997 shrink, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 1995 25 x 25 # 20, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA (edition) Fluxus (in conjunction with John Cage: A RolyoverCircus at Philadelphia Museum of Art), Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

Darryll Schiff is an established artist and photographer from Chicago whose work offers «metaphors for the impermanent, ephemeral quality of our lives, the constant flow and frenzy of contemporary times, illusions, and of perception versus reality».

Minneapolis, MN Anomaly, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft. Collins, CO Flora and Fauna: Myth and Metaphor, Bloomington Art Center, Bloomington, MN Art of Recovery, MN State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN New paintings by Margo Selski, Art Resource Gallery, St. Paul MN 2004 Ex Nihilo Gallery / City Pages Wine Tasting, I.M.S. Bldg., Minneapolis, MN Saint Paul Art Crawl, Tilsner Cooperative Gallery, St. Paul, MN 2003 Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis, MN Children of Eden, St. Cloud Civic Theater, St. Cloud, MN Art Resources Gallery, St. Paul, MN Sold on Art, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN Art of Today: Artists from Minnesota and North Dakota Exhibition, Plains Art Museum Rolling Plains Art Gallery, Fargo, ND 2002 Bloomington Art Center Show, Bloomington, MN mnartists.org Launch Celebration, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN Another Twist, Winona State University, Winona, MN Sold on Art, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN Art of Today, Artists from Minnesota and North Dakota 2002 - 2004 Exhibition, Plains Art Museum Rolling Plains Art Gallery, Fargo, ND Visible Fringe Art Festival, Visible Fringe Gallery, Minneapolis, MN River Gallery, St. Paul, MN Rogue Buddah Gallery, Minneapolis, MN Group Exhibition, Loring Park Playhouse, Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Foundation for the Arts, (Group Exhibition) Minneapolis, MN Fandango, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN 2001 Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibition, Minneapolis., MN (Merit Award in Oil Ptg.)

However, his incomprehensible language and actions frustrate any clearly prescribed exchange, serving as a wider metaphor for the precarious communication between contemporary artist and audience.

But as the general outlook as well as the market for contemporary American art improved during the late 1950s, the metaphor no longer had traction.

Group Exhibitions 2018 Official Selection, Garden State Film Festival, Asbury Park, NJ 2017 Worm's Work, curated by Mild Climate, The Finishing School, Athens GA Unloaded, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta GA Official Selection, 5th Annual Short Shorts, White Space Atlanta GA Official Selection, Best Shorts Competition (Award of Recognition), La Jolla, CA Official Selection, The World's Independent Film Festival, San Francisco, CA 2016 Acts of Sedition: A Group Exhibition, White Box, NYC, NY Transitions: States of Being, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw GA Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA 2015 Drawing Experiment, Chastain Gallery, Atlanta GA Birdwatching, Gallery Walk at Terminus, Atlanta GA 2014 Exquisite Exhibit, curated by Joey Orr, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA Score: Artists in Overtime, MOCA GA, Atlanta GA 2013 Ant Linkage, Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA Drawing Inside the Perimeter, High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA 2012 Paper Moon, Clayton Gallery, Kennesaw State University Museum and Galleries, Kennesaw GA Soltem Os Bichos, Atlelie397, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil 2011 Watching Hands: Artists Respond to Staying Healthy, David J. Spencer Museum at the CDC, Atlanta GA Something Along The Lines of Rock «N» Roll, Solomon Projects, Atlanta GA New Media from the Permanent Collection, MOCA GA, Atlanta GA 2010 Hand to Hand, AthICA, Athens GA Limitless, Agnes Scott College, Dalton Gallery, Decatur GA Everything and the Space between Everything, Agnus Scott College, McCain Library, Round Wall Gallery, Decatur GA Hand to Hand, Chaffee Art Center, Rutledge VT 2009 More Mergers and Acquisitions, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA Accessing the Artist's Brain: Drawing as Metaphor, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga TN Three Small Deaths (film screening), DiverseWorks, Houston TX Everything and the Space between Everything, Jackson - Hartsfeild Airport, Atrium Gallery Atlanta and Agnes Scott College, McCain Library, Round Wall Gallery, Decatur GA Hand to Hand, Western Kentucky University Gallery, Bowling Green KY 2008 The World's Smallest Art Fair, Anna Kustera Gallery, NYC NY Hand to Hand, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2007 Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA Tablet: Contemporary Southern Painting, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga TN Tenth Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, ASU Museum of Art, Tempe, AZ Exile From The Land Of Reason, Eyedrum, Atlanta GA The Petrified Man, Welch School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA 2006 Flamingo Sculpture Garden, Scope Art Fair, Miami FL Run For Your Lives, DiverseWorks, Houston TX Hand to Hand, Ruby Green Gallery, Nashville TN 2005 Toy, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh PA SouthXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL Gas, Food, Lodging: Imagining Escape, Welch School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Ga..

For the artist, these gestures serve as metaphors for aggression, control, and self - preservation, as well as comfort, safety, and order — all omnipresent concerns of contemporary urban liFor the artist, these gestures serve as metaphors for aggression, control, and self - preservation, as well as comfort, safety, and order — all omnipresent concerns of contemporary urban lifor aggression, control, and self - preservation, as well as comfort, safety, and order — all omnipresent concerns of contemporary urban life.

2013 Education, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland 2013 Block Party: Contemporary Craft Inspired by the Art of the Tailor, AUB, Bournemouth, England 2013 Living Archive, Paco Das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brasil 2013 Bienniale Cuvee, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria 2013 Out of Fashion, gl Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark; travelling to Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark 2013 Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting: 15th Anniversary Collection, MOCA, North Miami, USA 2013 Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations, Contemporary Art Centre, Louisiana, USA 2013 Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA 2013 Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 2013 Le Pont, Musée d'Art Contemporain, project for Marseille - Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture 2013 Pedro Lasch, Susan Harbage Page and Yinka Shonibare, Nasher, Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, USA 2013 Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, England, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA 2013 Victoriana: The Art of Revival, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England 2013 Kunst & Textile, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany 2013 Miniartextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy

The image is updated each year, and each year, depending on the weather and the water level, the work looks a little different — a nice metaphor for the way contemporary art shifts even as it endures, often seeming a little different every time you catch up with it.

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Matthew Kluber, curator, Jeff Fleming, (brochure), 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Animamix Biennial: Metaphors of Un / Real, curator, Victoria Lu, 2010 Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, John F. Simon, Jr. and Matthew Kluber: Hybrid Media (catalog), 2010 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Borderland Abstraction, Curator, Hesse McGraw (brochure), 2010 Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Matthew Kluber: Half - Day Closing, 2010 FOCUS09 / Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cool Stories for When the Planet Gets Hot II, curators, Corinne Erni, New York and Anne - Marie Melster, Spain; traveled to: Valencia Museum of Illustration and Modernity, Valencia, Spain: Pavilion City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, UN Climate Conference COP 15, 2009 Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, So Much Water So Close To Home, (film installation / exterior projection), 2009

Contemporary art from elsewhere gave me far more — the Kabakovs with their tremendous lament for a mother Russia that might have been, using the illusion of cinema as the purest of metaphors; the lissome visions of the Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair in painting and sculpture at Tate Modern — Islam meeting modernism.

His large scale time base works avoid negative impact on the environment, challenge the conformity in contemporary art and allow for a reflection that goes beyond the completion of the piece to focus in its concept, process, and the metaphor that comes forth because of the material chosen.