''... The found
object quality of these works draws on histories and practices in painting such as abstract minimalism of the»60s and»70s, quietly positioning an apparent similarity to these real world objects which are rudimentary tools for identification,» according to Karma.
Not exact matches
Checking air
quality, keeping track
of loud sounds, logging fresh shipments
of cargo, and locating lost
objects in the floating laboratory is also boring and time - consuming
work for astronauts, so Astrobee will be loaded with sensors and an RFID scanner to track inventory.
Similarly, excellence in
works of art or in games is a specific
quality of the concrete
object or game.
What Lasch adds to this picture is that married women's large - scale entry into the workplace coincided with the shift to an economy that «depended on
work that had no other
object than to keep people at
work and thus to sustain the national capacity to consume, which in turn sustained production, which sustained... an approximation
of full employment» all without reference to the intrinsic
quality of the goods and services produced or the intrinsic satisfaction
of the
work that went into them.»
Moving in tightly, using natural light to achieve a kind
of luminescent
quality, he now
works with what might be called commonplace
objects of nature, creating abstract studies
of the form and fabric
of lichens, ice crystals, seeds, wind - blasted wood, insect - eaten leaves.
Gesture drawing and schematics can
work well also, as they reveal the inner structure and rotation lines
of objects, buildings, even journeys (think maps drawn with a Zen - like
quality).
Titles, show wins,
working ability and other
qualities have their important place to be sure, but if I want a companion I'd best be looking at breeders who raise and treat their dogs like companions instead
of like
objects'd art.
They do not apply in the cases
of liability for a defect after a guarantee for the
quality of an
object or a
work was given, or in cases
of fraudulently concealed defects or injury to persons.
• Follow the level design pipeline from «pen & paper» game designs to implement spectacular character based levels and ultra-fun gameplay mechanics •
Work closely with level layout artists to identify level assets and gameplay direction to ensure visual and technical
quality for the levels • Follow direction
of Lead Level Designer to maintain gameplay vision consistency • Contribute to level concept, layout, implementation (camera, entity, etc.), prototype modeling, scenario creation, event scripting, game balancing, pacing, and gameplay tuning • Contribute to general game design, as well as cooperate with all other facets
of game production (programming, environment / world art and animation) • Place and trigger entities (such as enemies, movers, and
objects) to create fun, absorbing gameplay • Master internal tools for modeling environments and integrating game play • Rough out world geometry, camera paths, and lighting using 3D world - building tools • Assist with the scripting
of gameplay entities and events • Creatively resolve gameplay and production issues • Meet production schedules and deadlines • Collaborate with Design team to define and refine gameplay mechanics • Multitask effectively, prioritize competing demands, and follow through on details
Painted under strongly directed artificial light using everyday synthetic
objects — such as plastic fruit, paint brushes, and jugs — these observational
works explore the
qualities of balance, stillness, and structure that we associate with the classical composition.
The Thingness
of Color, which includes
work by Sarah Cain, Franklin Evans, Matthew Rich, and Cordy Ryman, explores exactly what the title suggests — the three - dimensional
qualities of hue itself — with colorful
object - hood firmly in tow.
Sometimes, her
works explore the material
qualities of household
objects and soft furnishings — past bodies
of work have explored hanging dresses and coats, «stacks»
of material, paper bags, curtains drawn before darkened windows.
This group
of intergenerational artists closely considers the process
of art - making in their
work by playing with scale, the ephemeral
quality of their materials, the nature
of time and language, and the relationships between the
objects that they create.
The play
of light on these
works gives them an eerie, immaterial
quality that's only enhanced by the viewer's awareness
of them as made
objects; the whiteness
of the paint acquires a new intensity as your eye takes in the darker and brighter elements that contradict it even as they make it up.
Complementary in their solid, vault - like presence, the surface texture
of both
works belies the
object qualities of the artists» materials.
EAST HAMPTON, NY: Eric Firestone Gallery presents MirrorMirror, a group exhibition featuring
works by artists concerned with reflective surfaces, the
quality of a mirrored
object's reflection, and doubled images.
Many conceptual
works take the position that art is the result
of the viewer viewing an
object or act as art, not
of the intrinsic
qualities of the
work itself.
(2) On the
quality of interiority in her
works: «It is also an attempt to penetrate the surface
of an
object, presenting not only the outside but what occurs within - the essence or core.»
With an insistence on the haptic
qualities of the hand - made
object, the
work included in this exhibition ranges from the imperfections
of the loose gesture to the precision
of hard - edge abstraction.
«The abstract
quality of my
work is often troubling to some viewers who are looking for
objects that are recognizable and therefore has a name.
What she does change are intrinsic
qualities of the room in which the art is displayed, such as the lighting and wall colors, using these elements to transform the mundane
objects into
works of art.
The museum's unique collection
of international contemporary art is a selective collection
of works created by artists who occupy key positions in the field, either because they have created a distinctive visual language,
objects and images with great originality and
quality, or because they have reinvented important aspects
of cultural production.
The result is a
work of art composed
of multiple
objects that were once singular and utilitarian and are now presented as one
work that is imbued with entirely different aesthetic and conceptual
qualities.
In a series
of works started in 2012 Thomas Ruff essentially takes an idea that was first introduced my artists like Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy - Nagy who simply placed
objects of various shapes, textures and opacities onto photographic paper and captured their physical
qualities through the optical traces they left on the light sensitive surface
of the paper.
Many conceptual
works take the position that art is created by the viewer viewing an
object or act as art, not from the intrinsic
qualities of the
work itself.
In Gober's hands, ordinary
objects become imbued with poetic
qualities like love, loss and redemption, and Untitled, like the sinks before it, is a signifier
of these and the many compelling themes that underpin his
work.
The
works are displayed mounted to materials such as aluminum or plexiglass, though rather than using these materials in their traditional mounting methods, the images are adhered to the surface and leaned on shelves or stood on the floor, with exposed sections
of their mounting substrate and their freestanding nature highlighting the
object qualities of the prints, along with their physical connection to the depicted subjects.
Regardless
of their emphatic materiality and simplified modular construction, both his outdoor
work at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and his recent indoor sculptures seem calculated to destabilize the viewer's experience
of their seemingly static
quality as
objects.
Since British sculptor Anthony Cragg (born 1949) began
working in the 1970s and came to fame in the 1980s as part
of the New British Sculpture generation, his
work has undergone a number
of permutations while consistently remaining motivated by a fundamental concern with the
qualities of his materials — whether they be found
objects, raw materials or manufactured compounds like fiberglass.
The three - dimensional
quality of Halley's
work asserts the
object status
of the paintings in a way that photographic reproduction simply can not represent.»
Their «New Sculpture» pushed beyond Minimalism and called all previous conceptions
of the art form into question by employing unusual materials that had never before been used.Throughout his career, Sonnier has experimented with materials as varied as latex, satin, bamboo, found
objects, satellite transmitters, and video.In 1968, the artist began
working with neon, which quickly became a defining element
of his
work.The linear
quality of neon allows Sonnier to draw in space with light and color, while the diffuseness
of the light enables his
work to interact on various architectural planes.Sonnier's architectural neon installations in public spaces have earned him wide acclaim in an international context.
Through their formal
qualities, along with personal, cultural, and technological references, the
works evoked questions about the physicality
of the art
object.
Works of art have an
object quality,» she muses, «but are able to access esoteric space and time, independent
of bodily logic.
Knickerbocker discusses
qualities and approaches in the
works in terms
of day - «stability, continuity, a kind
of plotline managed through repetition, a plan» - and night - evoking «the shifts, the shadows, the
objects, the sweep
of the brush... all [conspiring] to suggest
working in the moment, without the help
of a blueprint.»
Harry Geffert's
work blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture, resulting inlandscapes and still life
objects that demonstrate the surreal
qualities of space, time, and memory.
Although Höller's massive, shiny tubes are oddly beautiful
objects in their own right when installed, the point
of these
works lies not the sculptural
qualities of the slides themselves but in the delight that comes with lying on one
of the sliding mats provided and launching yourself down one
of the corkscrewing chutes.
This is not a new story: artists have been gathering from the streets and use the original source to make new
work since maybe a hundred years, since the rise
of a social system that throws away and keeps buying; the replaced
object is usually a different
quality, a different material and design to the previous.
I am also inspired by the juxtaposition
of disparate
objects and the highly textured
qualities in the
work by many
of today's artists.
Taking a monochromatic grey palette as its organizing principle and aesthetic theoretical vehicle, this exhibition reveals the emergence
of that which subtracts or divides — a polemics
of black and white or the search for a middle ground, a shade
of grey — in the
work of artists from around the globe: including Shiva Ahmadi, Yasima Alaoui, Ayad Alkadhi, Afruz Amighi, Reza Aramesh, Shoja Azari & Shahram Karimi, Bruce High
Quality Foundation, Dilip Chobisa, Seth Cameron, Arthur Carter, Noor Ali Chagani, Nick Farhi, Nir Hod, Rachael Lee Hovanian, Joseph Kosuth, Liane Lang, Farideh Lashai, Shirin Neshat, Enoc Perez, and Dan Witz, Grisaille: originally derived from a 19th century term for monochrome painting, especially the portrayal
of three dimensional
objects in two dimensional form,
of which the
work of British based Liane Lang in this exhibition approaches the closest contemporary example
of this art historical origin, the gris or grisaille is updated in this exhibition to reflect the embattled gesture
of not simply the monochromatic, but also any opposition to color as such, in at once its aesthetic and political modes.
Working intuitively, the artist translates both the fixed and mutable
qualities of a singular
object or grouping before her — shape and form, texture, colour, shadows and highlights, the play
of light across a surface — into abstract compositions that evoke a specific atmosphere.
There is an aura that pervades these
works of everyday
objects that require the viewer to look closely, to take in the complex surface
qualities and ambiguous abstractions, while simultaneously recognizing the underlying «real - life» image captured by the artist's lens.
Interested in a painting's potential to function as the very embodiment
of the
object it depicts, Kahn has also developed
works in which the shaped stretchers combine to create the form
of an actual
object, while a synthesis
of hand - drawn motifs and words epitomize its essential
qualities.
Amy Patton is a Texas - born, Berlin - based artist whose
work often explores the
object - like
qualities of narrative and the associative processes we use to make sense
of all we encounter.
Reece Terris is a Vancouver based artist whose
work alters the expected experiential
qualities of a place or
object through an amplification or shift in the primary function
of an original design.
Through their formal
qualities, along with personal, cultural, and technological references, the
works evoke questions about the physicality
of the art
object.»
This interaction forged an intangible aesthetic that carried on into their future
works; an aesthetic based on the reductive
quality of the
object and an emphasis on the corporeal energy
of light.
The washed layers
of paint evoke a wistful and airy
quality but it subverts convention as Hipple incorporates everyday
objects into her
work such as Q - Tips, duct tape, bed sheet, etc..
I selected 40
objects from the collection
of the Fine Arts Museums
of San Francisco and asked individuals to participate in a «dialogue» with a
work of art, each taking an expressive gesture and gaze that embodied their emotional response to the art
object... Slow - motion cinematography, frozen gestures, and an unseen moving stage comment on the active / passive
quality of the interactions.
Mitchell recently abandoned that moniker, and her
work has taken a material turn, incorporating painting, installation, found
objects, and assemblage that nonetheless retain the participatory, voyeuristic
quality of her performance
work — most likely owing to her use
of tactile, unsettlingly inviting materials such as large, thin, powdery sheets
of rubber.
Inspired by Louis Kahn's uncamouflaged use
of cement — with seams showing, the irregularities celebrated — her
works embrace their inherent materiality and have a distinct
object - like
quality.