Sentences with phrase «of pop cultural reference»

Paul McCarthy's major new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth is a joyous sprawl of pop cultural reference, creaky robotics, and splayed legs.

Paul McCarthy's energetic new London exhibition at Hauser & Wirth does not disappoint, turning out to be one of 2011's «must - see» shows Paul McCarthy's major new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth is a joyous sprawl of pop cultural reference, creaky robotics, and splayed legs.

A mercenary by trade, he's frequently apathetic, utterly self - obsessed, fairly unhinged (he talks to the voices in his head, and they often respond), and a veritable encyclopaedia of pop cultural references.

But she bucks this value judgment, focusing instead on the psychology at work behind the interplay of interaction and confrontation between wildly different materials that relate to a confusing set of pop cultural references.

Rendered in bright colors and with acute precision, these works suggest a core sample of pop cultural references that have been manipulated just short of illegibility.

Not exact matches

While the movie includes narration (by Charles Osgood) drawn from the book, it also allows the stars opportunity for topical pop - cultural references as well as narrative detours, as when the mayor goes in for a Who - Root Canal «Sticking» «Who» in front of everything,» he gripes, «doesn't make it hurt less») or Horton's clover lands in a field of clovers, whereupon he sets out to locate his speck - adorned lower out of the thousands stretching before him.

Audiences familiar with Key and Peele's pop - cultural savvy will be unsurprised by the various on - screen allusions to crime thrillers like «Heat» and «New Jack City,» plus throwaway comic references to «Fargo,» «The Shining,» «Crimson Tide» and «Point Break» (all of which figure into one of the movie's better visual gags).

Despite the disclaiming of provoking racial signifiers and within musical and pop cultural references, it does not deserve a revocation of its artistic license and freedom.

With numerous pop - cultural references, movie references, one - liners, visual gags and spoofs that parodied Hollywood and fairytales: Far, Far Away (Hollywood), Burger Prince (Burger King), Farbucks (Starbucks), Versarchery (Versace), Olde Knavery (Old Navy), Saxon Fifth Avenue (Saks Fifth Avenue), Gap Queen (Gap Kids), Tower of London Records (Tower Records), Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy), Baskin Robinhood (Baskin Robbins), Banana Kingdom (Banana Republic), Marilyn Monroe's infamous pose from The Seven Year Itch (1955)- when Fiona's dress blows up, Meet the Parents (2000), Ghostbusters (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Alien (1979), Flashdance (1983), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Spider - Man (2002), From Here To Eternity (1953), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even more, such as Joan Rivers» red - carpet appearance, and the TV show Cops (parodied as KNIGHTS).

In the midst of all this, Reynolds never stops cracking wise on every comic book or pop cultural reference that can be squeezed into two hours.

With its art historical and pop cultural references (which are sometimes combined), Dumas's practice is often based upon the painterly manipulation of found imagery.

Combining art historical, political, and pop cultural references she introduces a complex vision of what it means to be a woman and expands common definitions of beauty.

Memphis Living is an homage to the designs of the short - lived Memphis Group founded in Milan by architect and designer Ettore Sottsass, designs Bas first encountered predominantly through their pop cultural references and simulations, and which he only later came to know as an aesthetic movement.

Apfelbaum's work explores the limitations of traditional disciplinary forms, approaches to abstract representation, and references to graphic pop cultural imagery.

Vernon Fisher: Flaubert's parrot Schrodinger's cat hey look monkeys throwing shit The celebrated painter unveils a new body of work with «a wide range of pop cultural and literary references that highlight the artist's play with imagery, association, and possible meaning.»

1987 1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Reconstruct / Deconstruct, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Extreme Order: Cemin, Gober, Halley, Lemieux, Steinbach, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples (curated by Collins & Milazzo, brochure) Primary Structures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (curated by Robert Nickas) Avant - Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) Paint — Film, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (curated by Eugene Schwartz, catalogue) NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue) Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at The Equitable Center, New York Similia / Dissimilia, Columbia University Art Gallery, New York; travelled to Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Rainer Crone, catalogue) The Castle, documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (curated by Group Material) Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Berlin (catalogue) Anti-Baudrillard, White Columns, New York (curated by Group Material) Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (curated by Jerry Saltz, catalogue) Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue) The Beauty of Circumstance, Josh Baer Gallery, New York (catalogue) New York Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue) 1986 Admired Work, John Weber Gallery, New York Spiritual America, CEPA Galleries, Buffalo, NY (catalogue); travelled to Stavanger Faste Galleri, Stavanger, Norway (curated by Collins & Milazzo) New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Signs of Painting, Metro Pictures, New York, and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (catalogue) Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Collins & Milazzo) Political Geometries: on the Meaning of Alienation, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (catalogue) Post Pop, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (catalogue) Europa / Amerika, Ludwig Köln Museum, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (curated by David Joselit and Elisabeth Sussman, catalogue) Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Sonnabend Gallery, New York The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC Geometry Now, Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (El arte y su doble), Centre Cultural de la Funcacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid; travelled to Fundación Caja de Pensions, Barcelona (catalogue) Rooted Rhetoric, Castel Dell «Ovo, Naples (catalogue)

Through her dynamic application of paint and pop cultural references, Pensato's compositions extend the possibilities of action painting into bold figuration and abstraction.

In your ambitious triptych I Still Face You, for example, you make references to California Pop Art, Piero della Francesca, hard - edge painting — different kinds of styles that refer to different cultural perceptions.

What Lawrence achieves in these ten prints is that perfect, and rare, contemporary synthesis of pop - cultural reference and symbolic depth.

Working to establish balance and harmony between cultural extremes, his unique style of working references both western pop art and eastern artistry as he strives to re-invent a concept of beauty that's welcomed by viewers from all cultural heritages.

Fisher's latest body of work presents a wide range of pop cultural, literary, and scientific references that highlight the artist's play with imagery, association, and possible meaning.

They found unique ways of referencing popular culture, either through stylistic simplifications evocative of popular illustrations and cartoons, or through the direct depictions of pop - cultural tropes.

Through refined, calculated, and controlled gestures, whether it's application of paint, color choices, compositions, or pop cultural references, all of these works lead to moments of reflection and beauty among the chaos.

In its embrace of pop - cultural references, his painting showed a kinship with that of his classmates Derek Boshier, David Hockney, and RB Kitaj.

Phillipson's recent exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection, through the flesh - tone scenario, the imported combi - boudoir (2013), saw the artist create a multi-layered installation that investigated the relationship between virtual and tactile spaces through cultural references as diverse as point - of - view «selfies», experimental architecture, supermarkets, museums and pop videos.

Either as a pop cultural reference point or the conceptual link between the speculative practices of contemporary art and science fiction, this trend has seen dozens, if not hundreds, of international and Australian artists creating sci - fi - inflected pieces, with exhibitions around the world surveying their work.

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.

Marrying art history references and specific pop - cultural passions are key to Roberts» brilliance and in SOFT LIFE / HARD NITES we will see acrobatic amazonian women with hip - hop swagger pull shapes like they fell out of a Matisse painting and into the 21st century.

Razmi's body of work focuses on issues of identity and gender while appropriating national, cultural and artistic references to reposition pop - culture within a contemporary Iranian context, giving her re-embodied, re-contextualized works a tongue - in - cheek quality.

Through her dynamic application of paint and pop cultural references, Pensato's compositions boldly extend the possibilities of action painting.

Frequently interjecting his own name or image into his work, in addition to collected cultural reference, one of Turk's most recognizable pieces is Pop, 1993, in which the artist created a realistic wax figure of himself as punk icon Sid Vicious — posed as Andy Warhol's Elvis.

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The Pop art movement was largely a British and American cultural phenomenon of the late 1950s and»60s and was named by the art critic Lawrence Alloway in reference to the prosaic iconography of its painting and sculpture.

Producing all the costumes, make up and sets and playing all the characters herself, Maclean creates disturbing yet hilarious narratives that blend appropriated present day pop cultural material with a multitude of narrative references.

Mounted on fields of primarily black and blue, Kass incorporates neon lights in her paintings for the first time, limiting her signature palette, to spell out puns and phrases bearing pop cultural references that provide a somber meditation on the troubling present, and uncertain future.

The forms and gestures found in her work derive from a wide variety of inspirations and art historical references, such as CoBrA, Situationism and Abstract Expressionism but also pop cultural aesthetics like graffiti or cartoon that indicate Ekblad's genre - crossing approach.