Sentences with phrase «of handmade objects»

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have worked alongside master glassmakers in Italy to create a collection of handmade objects, which they liken to still - life paintings by Italian artist Giorgio Morandi.

He rejects conceptual art as the sole claimant of «ideas» and champions the decorative and intimate qualities of handmade objects with stories to tell.

«In an age of mass production, it is easy to forget the joy and beauty of handmade objects.

As a photographic image of a handmade object, it embodies the timeless beauty of craftsmanship and historical resonance.

Ronay's works express the primacy of the handmade object.

«I'm attracted to the sensuality of the handmade object,» he says.

His meticulous craft maintains the primacy of the handmade object - through which the artist retains a tangible presence.

Through the incorporation of performance, the artists featured in this volume have not only broadened the context and function of the handmade object itself, but also usefully blurred the distinctions between the genres of the performing and sculptural arts.

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Our handmade and leather jewelry boxes are objects of beauty in their own right, capturing loose items in one pretty place.

I guess the museum bug bit me hard because I am a curator of intriguing home decor: antiques, handmade items, heirlooms (like my grandma's dishes and lamps), reclaimed objects (my dad made our bench from wood found at my great grandpa's farm, in his storm cellar), and family photos.

He talks of various superstitions concerning the making of wedding dresses; he tells Alma about the ways one can secrete small objects and messages into handmade clothing.

When we think of craft, we tend to think of expensive handmade objects, often considered anachronisms in a world of mass production and mass consumption.

Perhaps the book is hand made art object (the kind of handmade books Publication Studio produces) or perhaps the content is intended to be exclusive.

This making process — along with the idiosyncrasies, imperfections, and errors of the handmade — is vitrified and sealed into distinctive functional ceramic objects.

Although I trade in ephemera often (paper goods with a short lifespan) and that's reminiscent of transient digital media, I do believe there's something special about a handmade object.

The artist employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living plants, creating encyclopedic and accumulative landscapes that penetrate walls and stretch across museums.

Her brilliant stroke was to marry the handmade and the mechanical in photographs of architecturally - inspired mirrored objects built in her studio.

For over 30 years LaPlante has handmade hundreds of instruments and recreated thousands more using scavenged objects.

Extraordinary examples of handmade stone tools, some of the first aesthetically - conceived objects known to humankind, will be included in the exhibition First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone which opens Jan. 27 at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

And while it has been popular of late to display actual handmade African - American quilts, such as the ones exhibited in upscale New York galleries, Huckaby's act of repainting quilts disarms them as fetishized aesthetic objects while folding their weighted cultural meaning into the history of painting.

The result is an engrossing study in contrasts, a grouping of objects that are simultaneously organic and synthetic, handmade and manufactured, spontaneous and calculated.

Her work is interdisciplinary with a creative process that often involves photographing handmade objects of her creation.

An exhibition and sale of glass, ceramics, fiber, and handmade objects by both established and emerging artists from Georgia.

Each of Sachs» work is handmade using plywood, foamcore, synthetic polymer paint, hardware, and found or scavenged objects which Sachs reclaims for his own purposes.

This month features the work of Angela Davis Fegan, an artist who crafts handmade objects as a way to reflect upon the ephemeral and intangible nature of digital media.

But whereas Duchamp's readymades, such as his famous urinal, questioned the artwork's privileged status as a handmade object, the new generation places art within the context of capitalist economy.

This deliberate display of the «history» of each gun emphasizes the handmade quality of the piece in contrast to the sleek perfection of the mass - produced objects to which we have become accustomed.

The resulting sculptures play a game of visual deception as the handmade simulates that which is industrially fabricated: Wood disguises itself as metal and plastic, and sculpture takes the form of a seemingly utilitarian object.

Using a range of materials, from found and handmade objects to plants and naturally occurring reactions, the works are brought together and move in the direction of a perhaps fictional, or not - yet - tapped, «third nature,» providing a «new take on the ways that natural materials can be considered and reconstructed for an audience.»

The uses of imagery and materials in this exhibition are wide - ranging and experimental: rhinestones, sand, matches, cowrie shells, handmade set designs, appropriated sports footage, family snapshots, found objects from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and black contemporary and historical icons such as Harriet Tubman, Paul Robeson, Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, John Coltrane and Terrell Owens.

In very different ways Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde all create situations and tell stories, via sculpture, photographs and other kinds of images, manufactured objects, the found, the handmade and the borrowed.

A talented welder and engraver named Shawn asked Dalton how much his handmade spurs would be, which led to another important question of object vs art object.

A fossilized dinosaur egg, leather gloves, two copies of Djuna Barnes» «The Book of Repulsive Women», and a handmade olive tree are but a few of the objects that appear in «The Selected Gifts (1974 — 2015)» — the majority of which are reproduced at actual size.

Cheat Chains and Telephones (through February 18th) demonstrates at every turn the power of both the handmade object and a good joke.

Dematerialization proved to be a useful myth: useful in that the term was convenient shorthand for the decline of the conventional art object (a painting or sculpture handmade by the artist - author); a myth in that so much advanced work of the period yielded a decidedly material proliferation of paperwork — handwritten or typed texts, contracts of ownership and certificates of authenticity, photographic documentation, inventories, and working drawings.

«At first it appears to be nothing but a common sewer grate,» New York Times critic Roberta Smith has written, «except that its thick steel bars are uncommonly beautiful — handmade, like all of the everyday objects Mr. Gober re-creates» (R. Smith, «Robert Gober,» New York Times, May 6, 1994, p. C19).

These replica parquet blocks, handmade by the artist, form impromptu plinths for small, domestic - sized objects of leather and metal.

The subject matter of the contemporary video works feel unattainable, while the more relatable handmade objects are relegated to the space shuttle's storage.

More than 300 of Schonbeck's inventive handmade instruments — a nine - foot banjo, a drum made from airplane fuselage, a chime rack from castoff objects — now reside in Building 6 and can be played by visitors.

For this new commission they have created a display of industrial ceramic production and handmade objects developed with Granby Workshop as part of their community - led rebuilding of a Liverpool neighbourhood.

MUCH OF LONDON - BASED SCULPTOR Daniel Silver's work occupies an in - between state — between complete and incomplete, between handmade and mass - produced, between artistic object and castoff.

The subjects of her films and videos reveal their close physical connections to their environments, sites marked by legacies of colonial trade and military occupation in the artist's homeland of Puerto Rico, by recounting stories and engaging natural materials as well as inherited or handmade objects.

A juried exhibition exploring the artistic possibilities of one - of - a-kind, handmade books, altered books, and book objects.

Chronologically, this exploration begins with Marcel Duchamp, whose invention of the readymade in 1913 gave birth to the separation of found or handmade objects from the more limited world of sculpture, usually confined to plaster, bronze, marble and occasionally carved wood that had previously represented, exclusively, in the realm of the third dimension in art.It continues through Arp, Man Ray (with an assortment of works from his New York, Paris and California periods), Dalí (represented by two works of major importance: Objet escatalogique de fonctionnement symbolique (Le soulier de Gala) and Vénus de Milo aux Tiroirs)

This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and objects; drawings; paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

Rachel Harrison is well known for her conceptual works constructed from combinations of found objects and handmade creations.

Alexandra Bircken is an artist who has attracted interest for her sculptures and installations that combine knitted elements with organic and lowly materials such as hair, leather, dried grass, latex and twigs, creating amulet - like objects with an arts and crafts aesthetic that reflect her background in fashion design and an interest in the radical aspects of handmade culture.

As for the installation that won her the Turner Prize, Marten used a range of handmade and found objects drawn from daily life such as cotton buds, coins, shoe soles, limes, marbles and eggs.