Sentences with phrase «of adobe bricks»

Virtual reality is often exploited for its high - tech gloss and interactivity, Wolfson focuses not on the technology but on its capacity to isolate the viewer.Rafa Esparza in «Figure Ground: Beyond the White Field» (2017), built this rotunda out of adobe bricks made by hand from a combination of clay, horse dung, hay, and water from the Los Angeles River.

As you walked into it, you stepped onto an adobe - paved ground and were surrounded by a rounded wall made of adobe bricks; the ceiling was left open.

I felt uneasy looking at one of the artist's yellow Kevlar Fighting Costume dresses stuffed and laid out on top a stack of adobe bricks, seeing the waist - high adobe platform as a place of sacrifice or burial.

The stone floor was a little cold and hard on the weary feet without shoes, but the room was warm, a testament to the thermal insulation of the adobe bricks.

An antique hacienda made of adobe brick, this casual restaurant serves up Baja California - inspired fare in its charming dining room and spacious patio, both accented by large, inviting fireplaces.

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WHAT IT»S LIKE: From the outside, it doesn't look like much: a weathered brick - and - adobe hacienda hidden down a dusty unpaved side street in Todos Santos, a little beach town 90 minutes north of Los Cabos.

You'll see an exposed portion of the original adobe wall, with bricks dating to the earliest years of the Spanish fort.

Local hardwoods, adobe bricks and handcrafted tiles make up the organic structure where period pieces of furniture alternate with artwork signed by renowned Mexican contemporary artists; where comfortable beds surrounded by gauzy mosquito nets are the best place to enjoy your early morning fruit and -LSB-...]

This spring, Kurimanzutto gallery hosted an exhibition of British artist Sarah Lucas's bodily assemblages made of mostly nylon pantyhose and cotton stuffing contorted and placed on pedestals of stacked adobe bricks, all sourced in Mexico.

Esparza uses the process of building adobe bricks as a tool to investigate culture, labor, ecology, and politics.

An adobe brick archway made by artists Rafa Esparza and Beatriz Cortez reorients and frames the entrance of Ballroom Marfa for the exhibition Tierra.

In the first gallery is his Coatlicue 1 - 4, an arrangement of four towering, self - supporting adobe brick walls, on which are mounted Star Montana's oversize photographs of female - identifying people.

In Marfa, Rafa worked alongside Sandro Cánovas, Maria Garcia, and Ruben Rodriguez for over two months, mixing adobe and molding bricks, to produce tons of building material that he used to create a rich ground for his peers and Ballroom's visitors.

Just outside of Nao's installation, visitors are invited to flip through books on adobe building practices and admire the collection of gavelas, adobe brick molds, are from Sandro Cánovas's personal collection.

I used adobe bricks to cover sections of the floor, but I also used them as a vehicle for having conversations and for inviting other brown artists and artisans to work with me and with each other to consider land and how to create within each other's spaces.

In 1959 he went to work for Hans Sumpf, an adobe brick manufacturer in Madera, California that perfected the process of manufacturing emulsified adobe bricks.

Many of the «sculptures» included often operated with or within more - two dimensional components — I am thinking here of Jon Kessler's Exodus (2016) and Evolution (2017), configurations far more about the transmutation of object into digital image than it is about the materiality of things; Rafa Esparaza's Figure Ground: Beyond the White Field (2017), a weighty and timely installation on labor, colonialization and identity read through adobe bricks; or Raúl de Nieves» beginning & the end neither & the otherwise betwixt & between the end is the beginning & the end (2016), an installation of five ornate, grotesque, and vibrantly hued sculptures set against a backdrop of eighteen colorful acetate sheets made to resemble stained glass windows.

I have many facts and fascinating stories to share with you about the politics of the local six campasinos who control the core preserves.The Mexican NGO Alternare has worked to educate the 37 campasinos within the preserve to practice sustainable organic farming methods to prevent erosion, pesticide pollution, as well as to teach them to build their houses with adobe bricks rather than wood.

As the name of the organization unveils, they are meant to be built with adobe bricks.

The adobe brick mansion was constructed in 1922 for Lewis L. Bradbury, Jr., the son of a pioneer Los Angeles real estate developer and mine owner.