Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The South
wall has two doorways and a
cinderblock chimney — which,
of course, we drywalled over.