Not exact matches
Jeana Eve Klein's recent
studio practice has coalesced
around the broad theme of value, specifically how society assigns value to
objects.
Taylor worked as Rauschenberg's
studio assistant from 1975 to 1982, and the legendary artist's repurposing of trash and ordinary
objects for fine art is an evident influence on his Collection of Perishable Rings (1988), where assorted discarded circular items — a tin can, a cork, a roll of masking tape — form a mesmerizing sequence of shapes that seem to roll
around, on top of, and within each other.
With the help of
around a hundred or so employees in his New York
studio, he deals with popular culture subjects and often creates reproductions of banal
objects, elevating their status to becoming works of art.
The works, which began emerging from the artist's New York
studio around 1959, were made of canvas and other fabrics, stretched over steel frames and stitched with wire, sometimes incorporating airplane parts, war - surplus materials, laundry — conveyor belts, industrial - saw teeth, and other incongruous
objects.
Around the panther, which is strangely absent, are
objects that Anderson collected in her
studio over the course of eight months.
Around it were arranged several discreet
objects: a tool box, a drywall chair with Polaroids of Jason working on the garage in his L.A.
studio, a cardboard «rabbit hutch,» and a small model of the garage itself.
Fascinated by the inevitable decline of all material towards collapse, Tricia Middleton collects
objects from the world
around her to juxtapose against repurposed relics from her
studio production, amassing and grafting these items onto one another to create
objects and environments that mimic natural processes of accretion and decomposition.
His happenings were performed in fabricated environments created in his
studio and galleries and staged
around soft props that were early incarnations of the large - scale, sagging sculptures of mundane
objects, such as Floor Burger (1962), which the artist later developed.
The idea: «To play
around with some
studio junk and stuff from the hardware store to make a few awkward
objects without thinking intuitively with feeling!»
What initially seems like unpolished remnants from the
studio, the work reveals itself as well considered
objects carefully placed
around the gallery inhabiting small quiet corners and alcoves.