But it wasn't until the 1900s that artists began to incorporate found
objects into sculptural works as an artistic gesture.
Anne's unique artistic expressions will consolidate
the objects into a thought provoking and stimulating installation.
As a student in the 1970s, Bender tinkered with variations on Pop art and began to incorporate found
objects into his paintings and sculptures, eventually realizing that assemblage afforded a way to make use of his compulsion to collect.
Franklin's current body of work uses geometrical enclosures and limited color palettes to isolate
her objects into self - contained worlds.
Perhaps simultaneously his piece evokes the heritage of Mingei visual culture that refashioned daily utilitarian
objects into objects considered «beautiful.»
Gradually, Kounellis introduced new materials, such as propane torches, smoke, coal, meat, ground coffee, lead, and found wooden
objects into his installations.
For over forty years, the artist has been making work that's like The Feminine Mystique come to life, transforming everyday household
objects into what her gallery, JTT, calls «nightmarish and fantastical dreamscapes.»
Others turn found
objects into collectibles.
Anselm Kiefer creates his own unique universe between painting and sculpture, using an almost alchemical method of incorporating
objects into his canvases.
By placing
these objects into dialogue, we hope to better understand the ways we reckon with times gone by.
Donovan made her first pin drawings in 2009, continuing her practice of accumulating common
objects into dense, visually rich compositions.
Bruce Conner also integrated abandoned and discarded
objects into his work.
Once considered one of the seven metals of alchemy, and now a modest substance, Geers uses tin to transform
these objects into works of great beauty.
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 film is less about the artist's iconography than the embedded intellectual process that allows him to transform everyday
objects into remarkable sculptural forms.
He added found
objects into the work as formal elements, with a great deal of humor, and without the irony of Dada or anti-art gestures.
Graduating painting at Columbia University and the University of Illinois, Carolee Schneemann started using simple mechanisms to set her paintings in motion at the early stage of her career, integrating photographs and everyday
objects into works she referred to as «painting constructions».
I combine video, sculpture and found
objects into visual metaphorical narratives.
Contributor Joan Davidow explains how Jim Hodges made a career of turning ordinary and overlooked
objects into things of beauty.
The standard explanation of this work as an indictment of the authority of the museum and its classification of
objects into arbitrary cultural hierarchies has always felt somewhat canned and unsatisfying.
As he became more successful, Hawkins began to collage mass media images and eventually found
objects into his paintings, and he developed a technique he called «puffing up» a shape: building it up from the support by mixing cornmeal into the enamel paint.
His art is based on the power of simple evocation, which transforms ordinary
objects into instruments of poetry.
Transferred from tactile
objects into two - dimensional projections, the process animates but also alters these
objects into something fleeting, desirable and unobtainable.
The late Tetsumi Kudo was an influential member of the respective «anti-art» movements of Tokyo and Paris in the mid-20th Century, incorporating store - bought and found
objects into conceptual works and assemblage - dioramas.
Exhibiting since 1996, Tara Donovan (b. 1969, New York) has produced a body of work that transforms ephemera and the banality of everyday
objects into the extraordinary.
Shinique Smith brings awareness to the global epidemic of poverty and homelessness by incorporating found clothing and discarded
objects into her sculptures and installations.
Through such unexpected compositional arrangements, Ward enacts a transformation of everyday
objects into visual markers rich with symbolic and narrative implications.
By transforming and manipulating industrial and / or found
objects into works of art, Wentworth subverts their original function and extends our understanding of them by breaking the conventional system of classification.
Portland - based artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins specializes in mixed - media sculpture — transforming household
objects into creations that speak to the chaos of domestic life.
Not to be outdone by Ford's large - scale attention - grabbing works, Tomaselli coalesces paint and collaged
objects into seductive, ornamental imagery reminiscent of an Eastern design aesthetic.
Similarly, Jasper Johns, working at the same time as Rauschenberg, incorporated found
objects into his work.
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948, Cildo Meireles is a conceptual artist whose large - scale sculptures and installations transform everyday
objects into politically charged works of art.
Sarah Sze's mesmerizing site - specific installations transform everyday
objects into interconnected galaxies of logic - defying instruments of disorientation.
Using the plastic - molded tops of battery - operated remote controls and other common electrodomestic equipment, enlarging them to a giant scale, the artist combines these found
objects into sculptural compositions that recall the work of Anthony Caro.
He transforms everyday
objects into a new, imaginative form.
Incorporating elements of each, Rauschenberg's Collection resonates with the eighteenth - and nineteenth - century practice of gentlemen collectors accumulating
objects into a Wunderkammer, or room of marvels.
Given his history of transforming everyday
objects into large - scale installations and intricate constructions that hint at the power of excess and the void, it's clear that Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren is no stranger to repetition.
Transforming familiar
objects into preserved memories, Rafman's works taps into the tension of technology and a world that exists between extremes of passion and disengagement.
Often combining glass work with photographs, text, and other objects, McElheny converts
these objects into works of art that contain multiple layers of meaning.
His aim is to turn
these objects into artworks.
Evocative of Louise Bourgeois's distinctively melancholic works, Schwartz's three - dimensional wall pieces made of upholstery fabric, jewelry, feathers, charms, and other every - day materials re-appropriate decorative motifs and transfigure
objects into the unfamiliar, their readability and intentions rendered opaque.
«Also, forcing a pile of similar, well defined
objects into a tight space makes them overlap, which creates an image that's abstract.»
It's not about putting a speaker on the objects, but rather transforming everyday
objects into speakers or transmitters of sound.
In the 1950s, Rauschenberg created what would become his most well - known «combines,» where he merges painting and sculpture by adhering photographs, detritus, and found
objects into paintings.
In the exhibition, artists Jeff Colson, Renee Lotenero, Kristen Morgin, Joel Otterson, Rebecca Ripple, Aili Schmeltz, and Shirley Tse take quotidian and overlooked objects outside of their usual settings and modify, disassemble, and / or reassemble them, catapulting
the objects into other dimensions, ones that are, at times, strange, comical, and unnerving.
Related Books: Altered Curiosities: Assemblage Techniques and Projects Secrets of Rusty Things: Transforming Found
Objects into Art Found Object Art II
These are not alchemistic acts of turning formerly invaluable
objects into precious artefacts, but conceptual exercises and manual gestures that add layers and narratives to pre-existing abstracts.
Follow Lauren Fensterstock as she travels from the rocky coast of Portland, Maine, to the beaches of Sanibel Island, Florida, to orchestrate a colossal collection of shells and disparate
objects into a cohesive, organic form for her Project Atrium installation Holophusicon at MOCA Jacksonville.
Michael E. Smith (b. 1977) transforms found
objects into hauntingly sparse sculptures that reveal only the most rudimentary traces of their former function.
The inevitable amusements verged on silly — artist David Horvitz staked out pickpockets to reverse - scenario street theft by inserting
objects into viewers» pockets, Sean Raspet filled the Société Berlin booth with Soylent, a meal supplement product given out free.