One man's junk is another man's treasure: Artist creates «Tetris» artwork out
of everyday household objects
Her transformations
of everyday household objects, from furniture to clothing, are infused with human emotion and rawness, and also show a playfulness of material and language that is both subtle and ambitious.
Not exact matches
This week in Tuesday Tutorials I'm bringing you a round - up
of some
of my favourite posts from the previous week, focusing on science exploration using
everyday household and kitchen
objects.
There are hundreds
of different
objects and ways to kill the undead hordes found within Parkview Mall: Firearms and blunt weaponry,
household and sporting goods, and hilariously funny
everyday purchases.
There's a lot
of unfortunate, understated horror in the curse put upon the
household staff in Beauty and the Beast, dooming them to live out part
of their lives not as humans, but
everyday objects.
Dine, by now considered an important young artist
of the period, continued to produce highly evocative works involving the paraphernalia
of everyday life — paintings and constructions
of robes,
household utensils, ties, toothbrushes and utilitarian
objects placed like props in front
of various colored canvases.
It simply means looking through today's eyes, and these shows match a wave
of younger artists at play with Minimalism and
household objects — what one shows calls «
Everyday Abstract — Abstract
Everyday» and I might call Neo-Minimalism.
Lee creates poetic
object - based installations fashioned from
everyday materials and
household items such as soap, towels, cardboard boxes, and plastic containers, which he transforms through subtle gestures
of painting, drawing, and placement.
Inspired as much by poetry and philosophy as by the affecting material qualities
of sculpture, Salcedo subtly and painstakingly transforms
everyday household objects and garments - symbols
of a vanished existence and
of the human tragedies that are its cause.
During a time
of continued upheaval and uncertainty, artists
of all media have been instinctually drawn to still life and the modest,
everyday objects that are its subject: flowers, vessels, food,
household items, and even trash.
Tony Feher (1956 - 2016) was known for his use
of common
household and
everyday objects usually overlooked and generally discarded.
Zoe Beloff uses stereoscopic film to reenact ten séances held by an early 20th - century French medium in The Ideoplastic Materializations
of Eva C. Jennifer Bornstein's What It Was and Celestial Spectacular use 16 - millimeter film to document UFOs, eclipses, meteor showers and other extraordinary phenomena playfully constructed from
everyday household objects.
Everyday household objects from furniture to clothing are re-contextualized and transformed through expanded definitions
of domesticity.
Yet upon further inspection, it is evident that their purposes run parallel; each piece — a stacked pyramid
of crumpled rice paper, a pile
of woven baskets, archival material and oiled canvases — seems to be the embodiment or reflection
of what Zhu has maintained throughout his career, regardless if the media were
everyday household items,
objects of suburban life, or what the critic Li Tuo has deemed «thick paintings».
While these emerging artists clearly share a fascination with the
everyday, the most striking common aspect
of their practices is an uncanny, subtly grotesque emphasis on the body as it assumes the forms
of (or interacts with)
household objects.
Morton's work reflects upon historical painting and literature, whilst also considering notions
of the
everyday and alluding to the domestic through her use
of found
household objects.
Known for transforming
household objects into dynamic sculptural installations through the addition
of ceramics, paint, and found materials, Hutchins» practice examines the artistic potential
of the
everyday.