Sentences with phrase «of cinderblock»

The Suburban compound — a duo of cinderblock huts outside the Grabner - Killam residence — could be understood as an anti-Chelsea, a space by and for artists that attempts to circumvent commercial and institutional means of distributing art.

Loiza includes several components that are markers of comfort and domesticity, including handmade ceramic tile tables, a Jibaro garden made of cinderblock and artificial flowers, and hanging hand - crafted shell macramés that complement a site - specific wall installation.

Cowering under parked pick - up trucks, slinking through weeds at the side of the road, or staring out of cinderblock cages....

But when those driving portions involve guiding a car that has all the handling prowess of a cinderblock on Teflon, the game becomes an absolute chore.

I arrive to see 15 acres of cinderblock, prefab buildings.

The new location, which has already played host to ambitious, large - scale exhibitions (notably, a recreation of Urs Fischer's 1998 sculpture Faules Fundament, or Rotten Foundation; a wall of cinderblocks laid in cement atop a base of slowly rotting fruit and vegetables), also features a sizable selection of the gallery's publishing projects.

In this video, Jonehughes3384 shows off a four bin composting system he built out of cinderblocks over a concrete foundation.

Not exact matches

Some longtime animal welfare professionals can remember the days of tiny cinderblock shelters hidden away from the community, bare concrete kennels and unthinkable euthanasia rates.

Even though Monet wasn't my personal favourite — I was more of a Van Gogh kind of girl — I thought the poster classed up the bare cinderblock walls place nicely with my stacks of books with USED SAVES stickers on the spine and the gigantic Windows 286 computer taking up my entire side of a shared desk and so I kept it throughout my years at university.

His second day on the job as Minneapolis Public Schools» new top chef, Bertrand Weber stood before an audience made up of district brass who would probably sooner eat the contents of their sock drawers than anything produced in this cinderblock hell and sweetly informed them that they would soon be thinking of it as the Culinary Center.

They're made out of traditional iron - reinforced concrete beams and columns, but the cinderblocks in the walls are replaced with «eco-bricks» - plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic waste material such as chip packets - that are sandwiched in between chicken wire and covered in cement.

The headlight beams of Dr. Sergey Kaidanov's battered SAAB bounced off a stand of Douglas firs then came to rest on the unpainted wall of a one - story, cinderblock building buried in the woods several miles from downtown Portland.

Nothing moves me or John, but a huge cinderblock the size of a dining room table comes down, and it hits Dominick right across his legs and it slams him down.

The major projects that Ward - Wiseman Animal Haven is currently involved with include a cooperative effort again with the City of Collinsville and Mayor Stan Sallee to build an Animal Control Officer (ACO) City Building with 11 kennels to replace the cinderblock building currently in use as an isolation unit, and offices for the City ACO.

In a small blue - grey cinderblock building on County Road 561, 6,104 killings have occurred in the past 12 months and more will die today.That doesn't shock Frankie Thorp — she's used to seeing it happen.However, as director of Lake County Animal Control, she said she never will stop being upset about having to kill stray dogs and cats when owners don't accept responsibility for their pets.

Deputy sheriffs, workers from the county's Animal Services Division and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Central Florida took roughly five hours to clear the cinderblock house on Marot Street.

While taking Spanish school in Guatemala I stayed with the Bixcul - Pichilla family in their small two - story cinderblock home nestled at the bottom of Volcano San Pedro.

When walking through a property, pay attention to the little things — like the finishing touches on a bathroom countertop or the craftsmanship of a bedroom door — as much as the big things — like the cinderblock construction of the home and the private, luxury pool on the beach.

Unfortunately there is no Nunchuck functionality in this controller, so the days of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Cinderblock will have to wait for another controller to come around.

It was a great studio visit, which gave me a lot of insight... most memorable was the altered bathtub that Cathy had up on cinderblocks that she uses to scrub the surfaces of her paintings... the paint and cleaning liquids empty through the drain into a bucket, full of dark and mysterious residue.

Finding beauty in the mundane such as concrete, cinderblocks, and other elements of urban decay, he uses a range of techniques and processes to create his work, some analog and some digital such as 3D scanning and printing.

Untitled Project: Sign [Relax and Take Your Fucking Time][+ cinderblock, VHS: Slacker, Paperback: Theory of the Leisure Class], 2010, oil paint on carved wood, installation, 82 x 108 x 58 inches.

Setting the tone for severity, the artist commandeered the Brutalist ambience of the gray, cinderblock - enclosed courtyard adjacent to the gallery entrance with a prominently placed, bodily scaled, faux - concrete - and - asphalt work from 1994, Cell with Conduit, thrust several inches out from the wall by a hefty steel armature.

In 1995, LeWitt floored the art world all over again with a show of «Cinderblock Structures» — the most powerful sculptures of his career — at the Ace Gallery's now defunct Manhattan space.

He mounts one of his earlier paintings, a 1994 piece called Cell with Conduit, in the entryway, and on the adjoining wall installs a mural - size metallic digital print that echoes the wall's cinderblock pattern.

From the beginning, reality appears fluid: the painting seems to become part of the infrastructure while the cinderblock pattern appears to be part of the painting.

The artist employs unexpected media such as cinderblock, fired stoneware, clothing, resin, ear buds, mirror and fiberglass to question the nature of the relationship between people and things.

The gallery is please to announce the acquisition of Chris Duncan's major work, «White Cinderblock,» by the Berkeley Art Museum, for their permanent collection.

Near the entrance to Pier 94, I stood in the shadow of a massive kinetic cinderblock suspended roughly 10 feet above my head, which was developed by Dutch artists Studio Drift and presented by Pace Gallery.

Sperone Westwater will feature Tom Sachs» (b. 1966) recent sculptural work of everyday objects — a boombox, a Barbie doll and a cinderblock — recreated in his signature experimental style.

With the car's cinderblock base representing stasis, and its coating of tire treads suggesting perpetual movement, Ward's Smart Tree holds up a mirror to the flux surrounding the High Line itself and reminds viewers of the High Line's history as a major transportation artery in Manhattan.

Or, from another perspective, it is as though there is some basic picture — any old image — that represents a kind of rough - and - ready cinderblock consciousness of something; it is covered over by contradictory yet complementary veneers, but nothing has been substantially altered in the process.

Compare two 40 × 40 greenhouses, one totally made out of 1/2 ″ thick clear glass where the outside temperature is -20 C and one with transparent 1/20 ″ plastic on top and hollow 2 foot wide cinderblocks where the outside temperature is +40 C and the ground covered with 1/2» thick plastic in both.

Being the daughter of a home - builder, I was lucky to have unlimited access to scraps; and those scraps of plywood, corrugated steel, two - by - fours, nails, and leftover cinderblocks provided the basis for fabulous forts.

The South wall has two doorways and a cinderblock chimney — which, of course, we drywalled over.

But after discovering the big cinderblock building to the left was positively swarming with hundreds of carpenter bees...

(They had to use a different type of decorative cinderblock on the addition.