Not exact matches
In her creative practice, she cuts
photographic prints to
form woven diptychs, which are pinned in place and flow
over a surface.
Revisiting manifestations of the black square and tracing its evolution
over time to a more layered and frayed entity are a new suite of paintings by Ellen Gallagher riffing off of Kazimir Malevich's Black Square on a White Ground (1915), mixed media works by Turiya Magadlela, a bound fabric wall sculpture by Laura Lima, and Jonathas de Andrade's
photographic iterations of the black square, which use plastic tarp to reference the movement of land occupation and the square
form as a historic reference to capitalism.
In response to this partial view that overlooks the complexities of daily life across a vast continent of
over fifty nations, Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography forces a recognition of the contradictory and varied
forms of
photographic practice that are now arising across Africa.
Here it comes in the
form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a
photographic close - up of shifting desert sand,
over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.
Aside from those previously listed, high - profile installations, his work — shown by Alexander Levy since 2012 — often manifests itself in
photographic form, whether documenting that car crash, a fake tree imperceptibly placed in an unknown forest, or natural landscapes that he's literally painted
over.
Three - dimensional depth map sculptures drawing on «the formal relationship of both the
photographic negative and the binary relationship between cast and mould» will populate the site - specific networked installation, taking
over the entire building and exploring «the mutability of symbolism held in
form» in dialogue with its architecture.
Featuring
over 40 original prints, each made by Brancusi himself, this exhibition reveals Brancusi's visionary dedication to the
photographic medium as means of personal expression — an art
form that the artist explored parallel to his sculpture.
Consisting of
over eighty vintage prints originating from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, this exhibit offers the viewer a unique opportunity to identify, follow and contextualize many of these recurrences — the combination of which
forms the basis of a highly original and influential lexicon developed by the only
photographic member of the Abstract Expressionist group.
Governor General Award - winning artist and writer Robert Fones is widely celebrated for his exquisitely rendered paintings and hybrid
photographic sculptures that make us puzzle
over the
forms that surround us in our everyday, zeroing in on the most engaging paradoxes of visual perception.
Over the ensuing decades he continued a systematic and rigorous exploration of the processes of painting, generating an abundant output that can range from
photographic realism to the most uncompromising abstraction and take the
form of the subtlest exercises in monochrome or the most intense colour, with every variation in between.