Sentences with phrase «of scavenged materials»

This microhouse in Stoughton, Massachusetts built by Derek Diedricksen is a micro-shelter made out of scavenged materials.

His transmutation of scavenged materials borders on the alchemical, and the resulting canvases are nothing short of spellbinding.

They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

Not exact matches

Such a material could one day scavenge the heat lost in other settings too — for instance, under the hood of an automobile.

Such materials can be used to help scavenge or dissipate the heat in engines, or be developed into a window coating that improves the efficient use of energy in buildings, the researchers said.

I found the treatment of this topic less even - handed, with Lewis Binford's views on the Olduvai material and scavenging given free rein, while the often contrary findings of Henry Bunn, Pat Shipman and Richard Potts — who have found that some Olduvai bones were processed by stone tools before carnivores got to them — are not included.

Our design team frequents the remnant material markets to scavenge through piles of factory castoffs before they end up in landfills.

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These are some of the most sought - after crafting materials in the game, but you don't get them from fighting large monsters, or even from scavenging bone piles like Ancient Bones, Boulder Bones and Coral Bones.

Mission objectives can be tackled simultaneously by a coordinated group, where multiple hostages can be saved at once and materials on all corners of the map can be scavenged.

They establish their kingdom of youth, building a clubhouse from scavenged materials and relying on a paperback borrowed from the public library, How to Live in the Woods.

In the PC version of H1Z1 you need to scavenge for materials like duct tape and cloth scraps to craft bandages or even makeshift body armor.

Roughly 30 to 40 percent of the aluminum coil from which the Ford F - 150 is stamped becomes scrap, meaning there is a lot of excess material to be scavenged.

Crash - landed on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis, Isaac must comb the harsh environment for raw materials and scavenged parts.

In the battle for survival scavenged materials must be wrought into usable items, gear and weapons if you are to have any hope of making it home.

The trailer shows off a number of gameplay mechanics such as scavenging for materials, building your base and of course, fighting off zombies.

We'll scavenge for supplies and crafting materials, desperately engage the «infected» hordes and occasionally secure a vehicle for some post-apocalyptic green laning; all of which features in the brand new slice of gameplay footage.

Resource management is a big part of that — your residents will consume food, ammo, materials, medicine, and more as time goes on, and a large portion of your time will be spent scavenging or doing errands for the resources you need.

In order to survive, players must explore, scavenge for food and materials, build shelter, and fight off a variety of creatures.

As varied as it is satisfying, Crossout is a post-apocalyptic MMO action game from Targem Games that gives you the chance to scavenge and craft the materials to build more fearsome vehicles of battle beyond the imagination of any ten - year - old.

His work frequently incorporates found and scavenged materials — what the artist has labeled «post-consumer objects» — as well as techniques of interactivity and performativity, resulting in unique forms with a deep relevance to their context and time.

Bradford, who will represent the United States at the 57th International Venice Biennale, is known for his monumental abstractions made of transformed materials scavenged from the southern California neighborhoods in which he was raised.

It's made on a very thick burlap fabric, and this is because, at the time, right after World War II, artists couldn't actually get all of the materials that they needed, so Herrera and a number of her peers would scavenge for materials.

bridge and tunnel kids have more fun (the return of La Morena), 2011, kinetic sculpture with scavenged materials, 8 x 5 x 8 feet.

Coolquitt has frequently utilized scavenged materials to create Apollonian, totemic, energy staffs, or entropic, pathos - infused gatherings of urban detritus.

Such scavenging and reuse of found materials lent Rauschenberg's art a sense of place and came to define the aesthetic of his Combines (1953 — 64), a group of works that blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and collage.

Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall - size collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks — underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space — that emerge within a city.

He builds his pieces from things scavenged on the streets of New York City, bringing together disparate materials to produce allusive abstractions.

It had not yet caught on in 1990, when Zittel graduated Rhode Island School of Design and began scavenging the streets for materials.

A fundamental part of the artist's practice is influenced by the collaborative building process undertaken by dwellers of improvised urban settlements around the world — favelas, barrios, slums, or shanti towns — who rely on recycled and scavenged materials to ingeniously, but often precariously, respond to their rapidly changing living situations.

Untitled was made soon after the artist came to New York, as the artist began experimenting with cost - free materials for her artworks: its scavenged egg cartons, upholstery stuffing and slashes of ink demonstrate Kusama's early interest in repetitive motion.

«I knew the routine of the guards, so I'd be able to go scavenge material from the basement,» Ward says.

Using a wide variety of materials include foam, paper, plastic and lightweight wood — Ryan also loves to scavenge litter found on his walks around Chicago, which he then repurposes for his artworks.

His spectacular frenzies of color and form become visual analogues of the very urban landscape from which he scavenged his materials — poetic visual kaleidoscopes of the communities and underground economies to which Bradford's inherently referential source material gestures, and the volatile emotional admixture of desires, concerns and vitality that make up the complex socio - economic layers of Bradford's worlds.»

Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall - size collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks — underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space — that emerge within a city.

Pope.L is included in The Barnes Foundation's exhibition, Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, which features work by more than 50 international artists who have taken to the street to play detective, make fantastic maps, scavenge and shop for new materials, launch guerrilla campaigns, and make provocative spectacles of themselves to speak to issues as diverse as commodity fetishism, gentrification, gender politics, globalization, racism, and homelessness.

Established artists like SWOON, reimagine the Street Art aesthetic, offering sophisticated commentary on economic and environmental issues through work that includes intricately cut wheat paste stencils, floating sculptures and installations made of scavenged, found and low - fi materials.

Elsewhere in the exhibition, a large group of Polaroids of shoplifters and related material scavenged from the demolition of Richmond's Cloverleaf Mall evokes one consequence as income disparities climbed to new levels during the 1980s and 90s.

Throughout the month of July, Salas and her team scavenged New Haven for disused household materials ranging from baby cribs to hand - knitted crocheted throws to mid-century living room lamps that the team disassembled and reconfigured into fantastical totems that enlivened The Lot — a local transit park near the Artspace gallery.

A vigorous «archeologist» of that predominantly African American neighborhood, Bradford builds each work around a carefully chosen compendium of found materials or, as he calls them, «materials with a built - in history,» that might recall Robert Rauschenberg's creative scavenging in the late 1950s.

Though restricted to only two series («Wire Instruments,» 1989 — 90, and «Pet Stains,» 1989 — 92), the exhibition will bring us some fifty works, including not only drawings but a number of objects the artist made from scavenged materials, constructions that were both inspired by and the subject of many works on paper.

She and Rauschenberg famously scavenged for unorthodox materials during trash duty, one of the chores required by all students and teachers.

Gardar Eide Einarsson's multi-lingual, always - appropriative practice scavenges its imagery and forms from mass media; the artist treats his source material as both ridiculous and insidious, imbuing it with his ethos of humor and acute critical distance.

At the 2009 Venice Biennale, she shocked and delighted visitors by navigating a flotilla of rafts, handcrafted from scavenged materials and garbage, into the city's waterways.

Known for his portraits made of unconventional materials such as peanut butter, sugar or syrup, the artist created classical photographic portrait compositions made of scavenged garbage on site.

For those unfamiliar with Mexico City, these two terms refer to the ingenuity of people constrained by poverty to build, destroy and fabricate using adapted, scavenged and recycled materials.

* The terms autoconstrucción and autodestrucción (translated literally as self - construction and self - destruction) refer to methods of building and eventual destruction that arise from the constraints of poverty, which require scavenging, recycling, and adaptation of materials.

Leirner creates her work out of discarded or scavenged mass - produced objects and materials, ranging from obsolete airline ashtrays to devalued currency; used stationery, envelopes, and mailers, to used shopping bags from museum stores and high - end airport boutiques; professional business cards; and all of the left - over components from multiple empty cigarette packs.

Sculptor Anna Sew Hoy (Los Angeles) makes work from materials scavenged from the streets of her urban environment.

Scavenging for material has been a modern art practice since the careers of Picasso, Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters.