Sentences with phrase «ornamental object»

For the second commissioned project on the Whitney's fifth - floor terrace, New York - based artist Virginia Overton (b. 1971; Nashville, TN) explores the contrast between the concepts of the «sculpture garden» as a cultivated setting for contemplating artworks and the «garden sculpture» as a vernacular ornamental object.

Highlighting the religious meaning of the cross, he said: «The crucifix is not an ornamental object or a clothing accessory which is sometimes abused, but a religious sign to be contemplated and understood.

«My guess is that once hunting became unimportant to subsistence, people continued to make arrowheads to keep them as ornamental objects, to exchange for trade, or to pass on to their children,» says Shen.

The practice of using hyper - sexualized women as ornamental objects has been especially brazen in the racing game genre.

Themes of historical architecture, ornamental objects and untamed natural landscapes create the formal basis for her works.

The glass works in the gallery show the infinite number of colours, forms and textures these pieces of art can take — and objects range from practical bowls and vases through to ornamental objects and large abstract sculptures.

Not exact matches

Leigh's works are known for their intense physicality, and the New York - based artist is extremely adept at forming and firing ceramics to create singular objects and assemblages that range from the ornamental to the ominous.

Ms. Benjamin attacks her canvases with chunky, muscular brushstrokes that abstract her varied imagery, Ms. Braman creates 3 - D hybrid objects that burst with color (painted or otherwise) and Ms. Cherubini builds absurdist ceramics with careening ornamental flare.

Hidden among the smaller objects and vessels are butterflies, bees, snakes, berries and flowers fabricated in a variety of materials that call attention to their narrative and ornamental functions.

Curated by filmmaker and artist Jodie Mack, this program of short films foregrounds objects and collections in a parade of motifs that range from the ornamental...

Not to be outdone by Ford's large - scale attention - grabbing works, Tomaselli coalesces paint and collaged objects into seductive, ornamental imagery reminiscent of an Eastern design aesthetic.

Its once - lived - in rooms, with their ornamental flourishes, offer the perfect setting for an artist preoccupied with the psychological, imaginative dimensions of domestic spaces, objects, and rituals.

noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, February 19 FACULTY BIENNIAL ARTIST TALKS: Looking Through the Surface with Barry Badgett, associate professor of sculpture, and Ogallala Vision with Diane Thomas - Lincoln, assistant professor of painting and drawing and director of Art and Design's decorative and ornamental program Barry Badgett uses translucent surfaces in sculpture to interpret personal experiences, objects, and ideas.

Isolated from their usual surroundings, the focus is on the serial structure of the objects and the tension that arises between spatiality and ornamental flatness.

The Museum's once - lived - in rooms, with their ornamental flourishes, offer the perfect setting for this artist, so preoccupied with the psychological, imaginative dimensions of domestic spaces, objects, and rituals.

Her work references both the transformative effects of photography as well as the sculptural relationship of objects to the body, alternating between an association with objects that are intimate, wearable or ornamental and an idea of scale that verges on the architectural or monumental.

Cornaro structures the gallery space with matte black plinths built at varying heights, which she adorns with objects; an ornamental stone carving covered in lichen, a marble urn, a clay model cottage, rolls of green velvet.

The centerpiece of «The Order of Things» consists of three sculptural elements taking the appearance of large ornamental cabinets with objects and a collection of shells cloaked in monochromatic black.