Sentences with phrase «otherwise banal»

Our interest in Letha Wilson — on show thanks to San Francisco's Romer Young Gallery — has grown over the past several years from watching her skillfully cut, fold and paint otherwise banal photographs of nature, to her current use of concrete which heavily transforms her photos into three - dimensional objects.

Prismatic lighting and small, surprising details in the models» clothing lends these otherwise banal images a psychedelic effect, which is exaggerated by each girl's preternaturally large, sparkling eyes.

Jenna Burchell is an anti-disciplinary artist whose practice emanates from her desire to activate otherwise banal spaces and create immersive sensory experiences.

In her most characteristic work, she combines popular imagery from everyday urban and domestic scenes, sometimes paired with curt texts, to skew otherwise banal images into anxious scenarios infused with a sense of irony and black humor.

In both cases, Skudder's decision to make her art props small result in an understated humor that light up otherwise banal still lives.

Carefully building a nuanced soundtrack whereby even the collective voice of its re-enactors never drowns out the source material, what might be an otherwise banal video collage eloquently reveals our personal response to nostalgic ephemera to be a whisper relative to the flat and highly constructed voice of pop culture.

New York - based artist Frank Heath's artistic practice is catalyzed by unexpected interventions into otherwise banal scenarios.

The prose is similarly deliberate and seemingly mundane, but the otherwise banal details are made more seductive by the fact of their foreign locale.

Kidding aside, accessories make an outfit your own and add personality to an otherwise banal ensemble.

Not exact matches

However, Whitehead sees mans religious experience as providing a stabilizing unity and teleology to an otherwise largely banal existence.

Clemson, Michigan and Washington each fell for the first time yesterday in the first truly chaotic Saturday of an otherwise pretty banal season (so much for that).

By making you physically fling — as in, put in a slingshot and shoot out — everything from explosive barrels to defensive buildings like outposts and armories, Siegecraft successfully gameifies the most banal part of traditional RTSs and summarily smothers what might otherwise be a dynamic and interesting game.

Although the banal subject matter and the serial nature of these paintings could indicate there was no emotional investment in the painting process, the prominent placement of the artist's first name at the top of each painting suggests otherwise.

January 17 - March 9, 2014 Ester Partegàs often addresses the most banal aspects of the urban landscape with a keen eye for telling details that otherwise would be overlooked or dismissed.

Other exhibition highlights include a selection of animations and a well - known series of photographs featuring discreet interventions that the artist has orchestrated in various landscapes and interiors, injecting comedic irony into otherwise everyday banal imagery.

Ester Partegàs often addresses the most banal aspects of the urban landscape with a keen eye for telling details that otherwise would be overlooked or dismissed.

Students explored their notions of beauty and the sublime, reflecting on Adams's ideas about beauty as an admitted pursuit that is «suspect,» and created projects adapted from the ART21 Season 4 Educators» Guide in which they sought to make a beautiful image from something they would otherwise deem ugly or banal and mundane.

It is this distinctive artistic alchemy that is central to the exhibition, in which she reforms the banal — hairnets, balloons, wires and cling film — into the graceful, ephemeral and opulent, often bringing ambiguous and sinister undertones to otherwise pretty pieces.

Here, poor strategic choices and writing that veers between banal, overzealous, and imprecise damage the advocate's credibility and weaken otherwise sound substantive arguments.