Sentences with phrase «painting on mannequins»

The Mexican artist discusses his influences, painting on mannequins and works offered in the Latin American Art sale in May

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Then there's the Chair, a seat made in 1969 out of a female mannequin in a compromising position, which was covered in paint stripper by a feminist protestor on International Women's Day in 1986.

Work perceived as trending that sold out the first day included pop comments on Pop (Sylvie Fleury's life - size crushed car that she painted with pink nail polish and posed against a wall caked with makeup; impeccable fabrication (Anish Kapoor's shiny discs that danced down every aisle); mannequin sculptures (Chicago imagist Karl Wirsum's robotic stick figures); body fetish (Guillaume Leblon's truncated ceramic legs and Jonathan Monk's kicking ones, Naotaka Hiro's body casts of himself made with his right hand).

Similar mark - making partitions works on paper, exhibited for the first time as studies for sculptures likeUntitled Draped Figure, in which a mannequin head and torso are bound to wooden architecture with ropes of fiberglass and enamel paint.

The brainchild of Swiss performance and visual artist Mai - Thu Perret, the installation puts forth a collage of objects drawn from her visual vocabulary that includes several female mannequins, two large - scale ceramic eyes, a ceramic dog, and an abstract Rorschach - style painting that hangs on the back wall.

In «Grand Street Brides» (1954), one of several early paintings that attracted the immediate attention of critics and curators, she depicted bridal - shop window mannequins in a composition based on Goya's «Royal Family.»

So, the mannequins from her Schauspieler series appear indistinguishable from those in department store windows, yet their beauty is disrupted by lines of spray paint on their bodies, tape wrapped around their mouths, and other interferences.

On view from November 10 through March 7, 2010, the exhibition features 21 dramatic paintings, photographic series, films and sculptural tableaux, including his famous headless mannequins that portray the complexities of cultural identity.

also has four mannequins wearing her signature «uniforms» - fabric pieces that can be worn or hung on a wall like a painting.

Creating a hyper - kinetic homage to gallerist Mary Boone, the duo floods the gallery's space with paintings, mannequins, caricatures and sculptures that border on obsessive devotion to the New York dealer.

Her materials are similarly deployed without hierarchy: a painting could hang on the wall but may alternately be affixed to the face of a mannequin, or sit on the floor.

«Schauspieler», 2013 2 mannequins fabric, plastic, feathers, bracelets, magnifier, spray paint, adhesive tape, glass, metal, color print on paper 143 x 50 x 70 cm toy animal, two hula hoop rings, hat, 2 bracelets, watch, belt, shoes, lacquer, plastic, leather, glass 165 x 80 x 80 cm installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2015

The image represents a mock up of a magazine cover and can be seen as a bold feminist comment on the sexualization of the female body on magazine covers, referencing many of the elements used in the artist's 30 year career - throwaway objects, mannequins, material debris, assemblage, painting, photography and her distinctive irreverent approach to sculpture and materiality.

Artifacts range from a wooden fire pump to bamboo skis; paintings and prints show a cyclone and women making silk; and mannequins pose in reconstructed workshops and tiny houses — one contains a tasteful depiction of childbirth, with a midwife in attendance and the older children looking on.