Sentences with phrase «native vernacular traditions»

Notes curator Claudia Bohn - Spector: «Our exhibition hopes to show that Berman was a transitional figure, who deftly blended the art of the European avant - garde with native vernacular traditions, like jazz and folklore, and his own hybrid version of American and Jewish mysticism.»

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Questioning the distinctions between high and low art, Ceramics presents new works that are an appropriation and celebration of the cultural and historical vernacular traditions of her native Poland and a wider European context.

Drawing on the visual language of architecture and functional design, Djordjadze creates sculptural environments that foreground the lasting legacy of Modernism while evoking the vernacular and folk traditions native to the Caucasus region in the Republic of Georgia.

Influenced by the folk aesthetics and history of her surroundings, Norton's work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country - music alter ego Ninnie, in a manner that combines feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky.