Sentences with phrase «of visionary»

For a supposedly materialistic, mechanistic nation, the United States has produced an impressive number of visionary artists.

Although New York was reconceptualized in theory as a rational metropolis of visionary dimensions, utopianism was outpaced by the congestion it was conceived to forestall, and the soaring development of the city created margins, shadowy corridors and pockets of eccentric space that subverted the premise of a rational plan....

Artsy's integrated online and live event bidding will allow you to participate in our 2016 Benefit Auction in real time through the end of our Visionary Awards Gala, on Monday, April 11 at 11 pm ET.

Curated by noted art historians Christopher Bedford and Katy Siegel, this will be the first large - scale public exhibition to bring together a vital lineage of visionary black artists.

Making reference to the Tower of Babel, López's pieces explore themes of visionary and utopian architecture and how progress, growth, decay and deconstruction are inherent aspects of the processes of building and creation.

The artists connected with Park Place were interested in the theories of visionary inventor Buckminster Fuller.

The exhibition explores the life and career of the visionary American designer and includes...

Leonard Contino is the kind of visionary artist described by Rilke as a single - minded migratory bird.

Mr. Estes» paintings, the work of a visionary, are all about vision itself.

The Life of Images offers a sweeping retrospective of a visionary photo painter whose work continues to resonate

The art of the visionary outsider Minnie Evans (1892 - 1987) has been visible in New York for decades, perhaps most prominently in a solo show at the Whitney Museum in 1975.

This year, as the world marks the 400th anniversary of the visionary artist's death, the Metropolitan Museum is at the centre of a major exhibition that seeks to reunite them.

Others described them as «an uncannily accurate step in the right direction», «[a] s exhilarating as a Charlie Parker solo or a holler from Big Joe Turner», and, almost thirty years after they had been painted, as carrying «the force of a visionary project».

This week, Tate Britain will open a major new exhibition of visionary Victorian artist John Martin's paintings of biblical disaster.

What / Why: «Danforth Art has become recognized for its commitment to Boston Expressionism, a school that em; braced a distinctive blend of visionary painting, dark humor, religious mysticism, and social commentary.

Hancock's sculpture is part of the artist's elaborate self - scripted mythology around «Mounds,» human - plant hybrids threatened by the evil race of «Vegans,» but his is only one of the visionary universes glimpsed within the exhibition, which surveys such «outsider» artists as Minnie Evans, Bessie Harvey, Marie «Big Mama» Roseman, and J. B. Murray.

Exploring the integration of art and science, «Ghosts in the Machine» also tries to identify an art historical lineage of works preoccupied with the way we imagine and experience the future, delineating an archeology of visionary dreams that have never become a reality.

This is where SITE now offers public programs including previously established series like My Life in Art, lectures that focus on significant people who have spent their lives immersed in art, and Innovative Thinker, an annual lecture series that highlights the work of visionary contemporary arts educators.

Each of these vaguely figurative shapes is based on a specific instance from the history of visionary abstract fashion and anti-fashion created by various artists (and two fashion designers).

Although linked to the Northwest School of Visionary Art with artists Mark Tobey, Guy Anderson and Kenneth Callahan, Graves's works

Closing soon is the retrospective of newly - discovered Modern painter, «Transformation of a Visionary: Paul Mommer» at the Islip Art Museum.

The Habitable Spaces project is a series of visionary structures that will be built in rural Texas.

A group of visionary curators and gallerists helped them along, including Walter Hopps — then of the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum)-- one of the first to organize a Pop Art show (the historic «New Painting of Common Objects») including Goode's work; and Nicholas Wilder, whose gallery was artist - centric — when he sold a work, he'd divide the money amongst all the artists he represented.

From the rolling pastures of Capability Brown to radical contemporary cobblers, there is a world of ambition in these five exhibitions of visionary design.

COMMISSSIONED PORTRAIT AUCTION 2016 As part of the Visionary Awards Benefit Auction, artists Deborah Brown, Hassan Hajjaj, Ellen Harvey, Ryan McNamara, Franco Mondini - Ruiz and Martha Wilson will create one - of - a-kind portraits for winning bidders.

Anyone who has followed Mehretu's art over the years recognizes that a fixed set of pictorial tics is less indicative of visionary consistency than of branding.

Elements of visionary art are evident in Chuck Bowdish's tiny watercolor of a figure by the shore and James Castle's ragged farmhouse interior.

One of the largest exhibitions MoMA has ever lavished on an artist, the Polke show — titled «Alibis» — will serve as a vital introduction to his work (which most Americans have only seen in dribs and drabs) and help viewers understand how his early importation of Pop techniques helped shape the work of Kippenberger, Oehlen, and the other standard - bearers of visionary postwar German painting.

Curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, and designed by Christian Wassmann, Never Built New York presents 200 years of visionary architectural and urban designs that never came to be, all brought to life for the first time with original drawings, renderings, newly commissioned models, and 3D visualizations.

The exhibition explores the life and career of the visionary American designer and includes iconic works from his oeuvre, taking viewers from his first New York City design studio established in 1974 to the present.

Robert Smithson's short creative life is an American epic, the story of a visionary who got out of the city to find the truth in the vast horizons of the west.

In a special addition to the program, Pratt Institute Board of Trustees Chair Bruce Gitlin stepped to the podium to present an honorary degree to a surprise recipient: Pratt Institute President Thomas F. Schutte, Ph.D., who received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in recognition of his visionary leadership and transformational impact on Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and the New York City arts and design community.

Taking a cue from the Allan Stone Collection itself and Mr. Stone's appetite for juxtaposing diverse objects of wonder in his gallery and homes, our booth will center on the imaginative, expressive and magnificently crafted works of visionary ceramic artist Dennis Clive.

These gifts — and others — have transformed the Museum's permanent collection and mirror the generosity and enthusiasm for contemporary art of its visionary founder.

The central thing that distinguishes Chris Martin from his forebears (Forrest Bess, Alfred Jensen, and Simon Gouveneur) is his meshing of visionary symbols and images derived from mass culture, particularly from the world of popular music.

With their clusters of visionary orbs, shimmering reflections and radiating starbursts, they suggest modernist fireworks... read more... «NY Times Art in Review: Beck, Dorland, Hume, Becker, Woods»

Her own weaving of artistic forms and narratives is no domestic chore, but a mode of visionary fabrication from deep - seated strands of self.

Shahzia Sikander's imagery references historical Miraj paintings of the visionary night journey of the Prophet Muhammad, a salient motif in Central Asian and Indo - Persian miniature painting.

This spring, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will present If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day: Collections of Claude Simard, an exhibition that explores the collective, resonant, and enduring global web of art through the inquisitive eye of a visionary and fervent collector, artist, and gallerist.

New York City as it might have been: 200 years of visionary architectural plans for unbuilt subways, bridges, parks, airports, stadiums, streets, train stations and, of course, skyscrapers

Despite his credentials as somewhat of a visionary, Rauschenberg saw an artwork not as an expression of a single work of genius, but one of an endless universe of possibilities, possibilities that had the potential to impact positively on the lives of others.

Hauser & Wirth has built a reputation for its dedication to artists and support of visionary artistic projects worldwide.

«It is a great privilege and honour to represent the works of this visionary artist on behalf of his estate and to work closely with his family,» the gallery said.

Since joining the family business in 1995, Nadja Swarovski has built on this heritage by implementing a series of visionary design initiatives which have transformed the company's image, turning crystal into a much desired component in the creative industries.

Often in dialogue with literature, the early work of this visionary artist explored mythology and cultural archetypes related to gender, while more recent projects address our complex relationship to the natural world.

Opening Wednesday 27 June, the exhibition is a two - week celebration of visionary design that sees students from 200 + creative courses unveiling never - before - seen work to thousands of industry professionals and design lovers.

The famed JRPG classic Chrono Trigger was a collaborative effort between the creators or Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Dragon Ball, for example, while it was a joining of visionary Yoko Taro and Platinum Games led to the chart - topping release of Nier: Automata.

Ground Zeroes is not the work of a visionary auteur.

The inaugural recipient of the Visionary Award was John Graham, who founded Humble Bundle — a digital video game storefront whose sales directly benefit charitable organizations.

Codemasters has their hands full with Damnation, but it's this type of visionary game that seems to throw it all together, stew it at 350, and then leave us wondering why someone hasn't done it before.