Sofas, Birds and Knees is an exhibition of
new photographs rendered in Play - Doh by artist Eleanor Macnair, featured previously.
Not exact matches
Original
photograph: Empire State Building,
New York City, 1955 by Elliott Erwitt
rendered in Play - Doh by Eleanor Macnair © Eleanor Macnair
Celebrated by the
New York Times, Eleanor is the founder of the ever - popular and much - lauded project,
Photographs Rendered in Play - Doh, where she re-creates photographic icons in clay, and publishes the resulting sculptures online.
The exhibition features
renderings, models,
photographs, and video footage tracing the creation of some of
New York's most loved public artworks from the last 5 decades by such artists as Red Grooms, Christo and Jeanne - Claude, and Kara Walker.
Dancers and female painters figure in her second
New York gallery show, evoked in images culled from old
photographs and
rendered in simplified shapes that sometimes merge in a surface brushiness or are outlined in the manner of cartoons.
The exhibition title To
Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light appropriated by Broomberg and Chanarin, is in fact the coded phrase used by Kodak to describe the capabilities of a
new film stock developed in the early 80s to address the inability of their earlier films to accurately
render dark skin.
On view at David Zwirner will be series of works from the late 1980s to the present, including the
New York debut of the artist's most recent large - scale digitally
rendered photographs, in which Douglas continues his investigations of photography's complex and layered relationship to documentation, place, and history.
Her compositions are often hybrid spatial environments that juxtapose two - and three - dimensional
renderings in a single frame, join several canvases into
new works, or create diptychs of paintings and
photographs in the form of prints, slideshows, and videos.