Sentences with phrase «of quotidian»

Think about those numbers in the context of your quotidian trudge through the concrete jungle of a large metropolis: bumping into clumsy commuters, juggling your phone and heavy bags of grocery shopping, or trying to call up a Lyft on a drunken night out.

Think of the quotidian «underenforcement» of constitutional provisions (or adminsitartive or criminal provisions) on the one hand and the breakdown of civil order and civil war on the other.

While the oeuvres of both Bruenchenhein and Suh are rather established, the change in representation for Smith solidifies the increasing attention that the Detroit - based sculptor, whose works repurpose found objects to examine the experiences of quotidian life, has been receiving.

By dissecting traditional correlations of meaning and by opening up new contexts and orders, he found he could break the paradigms of the quotidian and explore the interaction between reality and perception.

The qualities and intentions attributed to Denny's paintings, of an interactive dialogue between the observer's perception of quotidian architectural space within which they meet the painting and the spatial illusions created by the paintings themselves — are actually qualities Denny had imbibed from Barnett Newman, in his paintings and his professed intentions (amongst other qualities)-- and so, to denigrate Newman's (and Rothko's) as subjective, «private» visions is completely unwarranted, but it chimes with Bunker's wish to portray «publicly engaged» art as somehow an advance on «high modernist» subjectivity.

Throughout the notebooks, intensity of method combines with a mix of quotidian marginalia and endless detail of a life engaged with social and street activity.

Collezioni Private is developed specifically for Kunsthalle Lissabon and presents a series of new drawings, close to still lives, which depict Du Pasquier's ongoing interest on the expressiveness of quotidian forms and the domestic shape of objects.

He's a character created by an anonymous abstract painter who gleaned in the early days of Pop that simple compositions of quotidian subjects were going to be a market hit.

Known for drawings packed with thousands, even hundreds of thousands of tiny, energized marks, Linder's large - scale images of quotidian are inspired by her immediate surroundings through a process of embodied observation.

Similarly, Ellis» large - scale paintings feature the reoccurring presence of uninhibited motion as black swaths of paint bob and weave their way through an amalgamation of quotidian images, objects, and colors; elegantly forging a cadence analogous to the artist's aural compositions.

From the press release: Brooding and violent, at times absurd and at others disquieting, the LONDON PICTURES reveal what might be termed the nervous system of quotidian contemporary society: the impulses, outbursts, sorrows, hopes, temper and desires of daily urban life.

Limo 227 NE 2nd Street Miami, FL 33132 Known for architectural scale interventions that unsettle the functionality of quotidian infrastructure, Los Angeles based artist Nate Page created a dramatic temporary intervention into the urban fabric of Miami's downtown.

Brooding and violent, at times absurd and at others disquieting, the LONDON PICTURES reveal what might be termed the nervous system of quotidian contemporary society: the impulses, outbursts, sorrows, hopes, temper and desires of daily urban life.

Large sculptural installations and multimedia works define Sudarshan Shetty's oeuvre, often employing assemblages of quotidian objects that suggest new possibilities of meaning and perception, through diverse approaches that have included sculptural and architectural elements.

Their work, like all art, is a fractalization of reality; reconstitutions of the quotidian; glimpses of personal interiority.

Utilizing the abandoned evidence of quotidian human existence as raw material, Marianne Vitale (American, born 1973) transforms decaying elements of rural life into rugged visual poems alluding to a larger universal and celestial cosmology.

Pjota puts into perspective the relations between power structures, the inability to be individual within a bureaucratic system and an administered freedom that functions within the limitations of a quotidian context.

There is a delicate treatment with the wistful layers but it jolts you into an unexpected turn with the inclusion of quotidian objects.

Robert Henry Contemporary featured Richard Garrison's solo show of beautiful abstract deconstructions of the quotidian colors of everyday objects, the beauty of the banal.

His use of quotidian items such as old furniture and domestic appliances appears by turns indifferent and sentimental, but his works» real poetic power derives from their engagement with a core idea in Taoist philosophy — the dialectic between the individual and the world.

Opie's «Statue of Shahnoza» is part of a group exhibition exploring the subversion of the quotidian and the transgression of boundaries between public and private spheres.

Saturated hues seem to echo the swollen emotions and confusion of these quotidian melodramas.

A version of this review appears in print on March 1, 2013, on Page C26 of the New York edition with the headline: The Colors and Joys of the Quotidian.

Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop Art and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing often overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.

Charles Gaines takes large photos of quotidian items — tropical house plants, trees, portraits of friends — and maps their values onto gridded paper.

Other artists in the show employ strategies of accumulation and «recuperation,» drawing on objects present in their surroundings to create dense, poetically lyrical works that combine a love of abstraction with a commitment to the use of quotidian materials.

In these works, found everyday objects have been stripped of their commercial or symbolic value, negating their utility and concealing their identity to capture the surprisingly enigmatic nature of the quotidian.

«It Takes a Village,» Alejandro Diaz's latest solo exhibition, pulls together a seemingly disparate variety of references from Minimalism, Conceptualism, Abstract Expressionism, and even British Pop to unapologetically expose the reality of quotidian life in the artist's own personal interest in South Texas, and specifically San Antonio.

Cast in varied, bright colors and presented in the gallery's storefront window on glass shelves, the Brancusi-esque formal properties of these quotidian objects reveal themselves; a «pure,» universal form which, when endlessly repeated via mass production, is intended to ensure brand loyalty.

Working in a variety of media including drawing, film, performance, and sculpture, he creates complex installations comprised of quotidian materials such as cable, cardboard, Q - tips, foam, and tape along with personal products like shaving cream and toothpaste.

In their depictions of quotidian scenes, Larsen's paintings emphasize the way visual and narrative hierarchies are conjoined or interrupted.

Schulze, who is perhaps best known for immersive, spatially transformative installations, both acknowledges and destabilizes our existing pictorial understandings of quotidian objects.

Observations of quotidian, urban architectural elements and sounds from her Parisian environment provide the material scaffolding from which she constructs and delicately balances her saturated hues and rectilinear shapes.

Examining the form and function of quotidian objects, Mathison builds geometric groups and visual fields.

He locally sources the tires for each city, emphasizing the latent violent potential of quotidian objects, while furthering his dialogue with architectures of violence and radical politics.

This exhibition at James Cohan Gallery seeks to develop these earlier ideas around what I termed «vernacular» or «everyday» abstraction: that is artistic practices that actively privilege and operate in the grey area between an essentially non-representational image / object and the use of quotidian materials and processes.

Her tableaux are styled to within an inch of their lives, taking swathes of draped fabric and homeware objects like lampshades and taking them out of the quotidian and firmly into the odd.

With their collage of quotidian materials, their vertical orientation reminiscent of skyscrapers (albeit in miniature), and their use of a sculptural idiom, the columns are typical of Genzken's approach, for although her oeuvre is heterogeneous, architecture, sculpture, modernism, and the readymade remain touchstones of her artistic practice.

January 30th - February 9th, 2008 Hergenhahn's installation will consist of a series of pencil drawings gathered from experiences of quotidian life, and a video projection and wall etching in the gallery.

Rivers employed both painterly surfaces as well as an explosion of quotidian references to convey the experience of The Accident.

Rope, fruits and isotonic drinks are just a few of the quotidian materials put to use by the artists who seem to be striving for meaning in the everyday.

1 Georges Seurat (National Gallery, London): The story of the complex evolution of the quotidian but disturbing Bathers at Asnières was told through drawings and oil sketches on small panels in such a way that you felt you were following the young Seurat's ambitious progress, moment by moment, draft by draft.

Lifelike invites a close examination of art since the late 1960s based on commonplace objects and situations that are startlingly realistic, often playful and sometimes surreal — works that investigate the quieter side of the quotidian.

The spirit of Yu Hong's creation most often arises from her personal life and the surroundings of quotidian existence, constructing a world which ingeniously fuses together perceptions of time and memories, as well as adeptly seizing the sporadic emotional evolution of human experience.

Hergenhahn's installation will consist of a series of pencil drawings gathered from experiences of quotidian life, and a video projection and wall etching in the gallery.

Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.

Takamatsu's «Oneness of Rust» and «Slack of Net» explore the singularity and complexity of quotidian materials.

Adopting an almost anthropological approach, he recombines aspects of the quotidian with his incisive artistic wit, opening up space to challenge the rules of the everyday through his poetic alterations.

Notations in Passing intersperses photographs of everyday life in Southeast Queens with artworks that investigate the interconnectedness of quotidian life, the global economy, environmental crises, and race - based oppression within African and Caribbean diasporas.

In this way, the visual aspect of the work gives a sense of the perpetual history of quotidian life, but no indication of a particular moment.»