Sentences with phrase «objects by folk»

[29] The Luce Foundation Center features paintings densely hung on screens; sculptures; crafts and objects by folk and self - taught artists arranged on shelves.

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Even though scientific theories may have folk - theories as their origin and folk - theories may have to serve as reliable guides to a given subject in the absence of a developed scientific theory, when truth is the primary concern and time is no object, folk - theories are usually superseded by their scientific counterparts.

Interpreting the clustering of data is now a big business, a potent force in politics, and a powerful tool of government (although plenty of people may object to finding their data scrutinized by those folks, too).

It's a product of their internal mobile game development team dubbed HAL Egg, and featured an adorable UFO helping out all sorts of folks by using its special ability to carry around objects similar to a claw machine game.

Inspired by Southern folk artists, Torpedo Factory associate artist Sissy Cutchen tells us that she likes to «take a funky mood and make it a fabulous object.»

A folk art «memory vessel» in the show began as a humble pot whose function was nullified and its meaning elevated by an anonymous artist who encrusted it with objects of personal significance.

The research was then translated into a series of folk tales, objects and songs, which was performed back to the public by a community choir.

Three works by the outsider sculptor Judith Scott (1943 - 2005), known for creating evocative misshapen presences by wrapping found objects in layers of yarn, share a low platform with the work of the mainstream artist Nancy Shaver, whose delicate assemblage - boxes covered with found papers and fabrics, resemble folk - art updates.

Behind each Copley painting are works from his collection by Wifredo Lam, Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Francis Picabia, Mexican folk objects in shelves with stacks of books ranging from Mad magazine to surveys of Pre-Colombian and Cycladic art.

Other artists have sought to renew the formalist mantra of painting as object, either by painting on three - dimensional household objects or by working with the similarities between painting and plain old fabric design, as in clothing or folk quilting.

The exhibition will include 100 of his unfired clay objects in addition to two documentary films on his work: «Sonny Ford:» Delta Artist, made by William Ferris in Leland, Mississippi in 1969 and JAMES «SON FORD» THOMAS: ARTIST made by filmmakers Jeffrey Wolf and Zach Wolf, using footage shot of Thomas in 1982 while exhibiting his work as part of the seminal touring exhibition Black Folk Art in America, 1930 - 1980, which has been edited on the occasion of this exhibition.

Such compositional «quilting» is complemented by eight new pieces «stitched» together from rough - hewn objects — wood blocks, copper printing plates, t - shirt fragments — that extend FAILE's use of puzzle boxes, and obscure the boundary between fine and folk art.

Other artists original to Black Folk Art in America are represented by objects not shown in the earlier show but exemplify their bodies of work.

Influenced by Surrealism, American folk culture and cartoons, Copley employed humor and intelligence to explore themes that became recurrent in his production, including pornography, patriotism and the unexpected potential of everyday objects.

Artist Faheem Majeed curated the exhibition Post Black Folk Art in America 1930 — 1980 — 2016 for Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago, which consists of 110 objects by modern and contemporary African American artists who have had no academic training.

Highlights include the early 18th - century Editha Kellogg (EK) Hadley chest; an important pastel by American Impressionist William Merritt Chase; Elie Nadelman's Ideal Head of a Woman; Thomas Hart Benton's 1930 oil study Steel for his America Today murals; and the extensive holdings of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, which includes furniture, decorative arts, folk portraits, books, and pre-industrial American tools, as well as objects of Native American material culture.

All of the objects (primarily sculpture and drawing) in John Zane Zappas's solo exhibition are inspired by interplanetary folk music, i.e., seminal synthesizer - based records by 1970s and 80s producer Craig Leon.

You'll discover a collage of miscellaneous objects, such as a punk jacket, a regency dress, Tetley tea folk and Worcester porcelain, in addition to the works by Grayson Perry.

Hobby Lobby is a for - profit corporation — but it is owned by some religious folks who objected, on religious grounds, to providing access to certain contraceptives.