Sentences with phrase «objects on a monumental scale»

During their 33 - year collaboration, the husband and wife team have garnered attention for their playful sculptures of ordinary objects on a monumental scale.

In 1963 he moved to New York and in 1965 began making his large outdoor sculpture featuring common household objects on a monumental scale.

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Exhibiting at the gallery for the first time, DeLucia's work centers on images of domestic objects rendered in monumental scale through sculpture and relief.

The gallery's website describes Chamberlain's process as «crumpling, crushing, bending, twisting and welding to form individual objects, which may be further painted and sprayed, [and combined] into aggregations, often on a monumental scale.

Often working on a monumental scale, with light and temporary materials, some of her sculptures seem to represent an ordinary object (a raspberry, a pile of newspapers), whereas some represent «sculpture» itself (public monuments, an ancient goddess, Neolithic stones), and some represent the act of making (a swoop of the hand, a crush of the fist).

Her work references both the transformative effects of photography as well as the sculptural relationship of objects to the body, alternating between an association with objects that are intimate, wearable or ornamental and an idea of scale that verges on the architectural or monumental.

Often working on a large if not monumental scale, she takes ordinary, domestic items - such as platters and chargers - and elevates them into powerful, sculptural objects.