Sentences with phrase «of cultural detritus»

Our narrator takes us on a tour of the post-industrial canal via canoe, showcasing the accretions of cultural detritus, a motley crew of urban wildlife, both human and non-human, and improbable plans for redevelopment which have transformed this forgotten space into a material unconscious of the city.

But Sammak also has a knack for finding the uncanny in the mundane and translating little bits of cultural detritus to something fun to look at.

Mixing allegory and abstraction within compositionally dense canvases, Vega sifts through various forms of cultural detritus to explore the vagaries of the human condition.

Each work is a piece of cultural detritus, part of an ever - evolving narrative of his personal pop cultural canon.

All of my work collages bits and pieces of cultural detritus into new narratives.

Those familiar with the krazy kwilt patchworks of cultural detritus, bad jokes, worse songs, delusions, and passages of stunning observational lucidity and romanticism that are the novels of Thomas Pynchon will find all this familiar terrain.

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For the detritus of this dreamland, L.A. serves to level the distinction between teenage idol and drug dealer; it is a landscape where one's identity is provisional, contingent on cultural license.

His referential and detritus - like objects derive their meaning from a discourse based on everyday objects and the urban environment and the meanings they acquire inside a number of socio - cultural contexts that the artist explores.

His drawings do not reference the layered detritus of municipal walls, bus stops or billboards without the cultural weight that informs their production and perception.

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Since the 1970s, Jim Shaw has mined the essentials of American cultural detritus — from comic books, pulp novels, and album covers, to vintage advertisements, movie posters, and noise rock.

Her current solo exhibition titled «Slice of Life» at Honor Fraser in Los Angeles is full of examples of the artist's incredible ability to remix the cultural detritus of her birthplace to find wisdom in the mundane.

Peña anchors the cultural, commercial and political ideologies espoused across a diversity of texts down to the status of household pests and detritus.

«Composed from the media, detritus, and organic matter of Brooklyn, Tehran, and many places in between, Dehghan's collages exhibit an impetus to dissect - physically, theoretically, and psychologically — a select collection of extant materials in order to provide a channel through which the sociopolitical, cultural, and mimetic forces that produced them may be projected outward through their own destruction, reconstruction, and reconfiguration.

Short uses cultural detritus as a point of departure.

Yeapanis selects both manufactured goods and collected detritus of her life as an artist, a consumer, a cultural participant and a waitress, because these materials represent an acceptance and engagement with what is, rather than a striving towards what should / could be.

Since the 1990s, Rachel Harrison (born 1966) has developed a colorful and delightfully grotesque sculptural idiom out of the most contemporary detritus — styrofoam, plastic buckets, vacuum cleaners — which she blends with slapstick humor and art historical and pop cultural references.

Amanda Ross - Ho assembles materials and detritus, from found objects, photographs, drawings, sculptures, to paintings and video clips, into installations that explore questions of craft and «high» art and seem to clue us into a rich and personal socio - cultural world.

Not only does our detritus function as cultural artifact, but what we discard or sweep up alludes to fundamental limitations of our own human faculties.

Throughout his career, Adams has focused on particular cultural phenomena of our age, including the strip - mall culture he observed in Denver in the 1970s and the spill of suburban detritus in California in the 1980s.

Salvaged from billboards, telephone poles, and the supply drawers of beauty salons, this humble urban detritus resonates with cultural meaning and a sense of place.

Locke explores global cultural fusions, creating complex sculptural collages with an eclectic range of objects, including mass - produced toys, souvenirs, and consumer detritus.

Michael Mahalchick creates installation, sculpture, and performance out of the dark cultural detritus he has amassed.

Coming to us with a readymade patina of age due to their reliance on increasingly dated software, these works act as signals for the speed at which we cycle through and abandon cultural detritus in pursuit of the new.