Sentences with phrase «object makers whose»

In the hands of southern California artists such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler — not to mention a host of sculptors, painters, and object makers whose tradition now extends into several generations in whose work the immaterial becomes material, material dematerializes, light becomes object and being becomes (incredibly) light.

Interstitial seeks to answer this question through the examination of new and recently - created free - standing sculptures by contemporary Los Angeles - based object makers whose work exists in the interstices, the spaces between the historical genres of the decorative arts, still life, and abstraction.

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In 1974 he founded, together with a group of artists, writers, film - makers, performance artists and musicians, the Laboratoire Agit» Art, whose aim was to transform the nature of artistic practice from a formalist, object - bound sensibility to practices based on experimentation and agitation, process rather than product, ephemerality rather than permanence.

The objects fall into several categories: the earliest are flint tools from the Paleolithic Era, whose rough - hewn shapes seem sculptural to us today, but were functional for their makers.

Robert Filliou: The Institute of Endless Possibilities positions Filliou as an object - maker whose sculptures examine the very nature of the creative act.

The presence of such obvious citations exposes a problem at the heart of Gates» practice as a maker of art objects whose production functions subversively as the financial engine for his more ambitious community projects in Chicago and elsewhere.