Sentences with phrase «personal mythology»

He is working continually with the theme of personal mythology and the vanity of the artistic process.

In Stardust, Stern melds her own personal mythologies with other theological beliefs to allow for multiple meanings to surface.

The show isn't the first time Armstrong has mined his own personal mythology as a starting point.

This depiction of personal mythology through charged objects is shared with De Chirico and is taken up by contemporary artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Sophie Calle.

Performance and video artist Jacolby Satterwhite has made a name for himself with his immersive, idiosyncratic works, many of which involve family history and personal mythologies in fantastical animated environments that update the innovations of Surrealism and Dada.

Serena Perrone employs various techniques ranging from printmaking and drawing to photography and writing to reflect on personal mythologies, examine differing forms of nostalgia, recount stories of destruction, regeneration, transition, enchantment and disenchantment, and capture images of the synchronistic and uncanny ways that magic and wonder are encountered in liminal spaces.

In 2012, she curated Personal Mythologies with artists Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo and Marigold Santos for the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), where she was visual arts programmer between 2006 and 2010.

A fascinating projection of Guy Maddin's memories and personal mythologies about the city where he was born and raised, juxtaposed upon a fantastical recount of historical facts and urban legends with his trademark silent film aesthetic, grainy and ethereal.

These subjects come together as symbols used to create a visually striking personal mythology that is dark, tender and satirical.

With pop cultural references serving as an entry point, ranging from Time Magazine and National Geographic to art history and Greek mythology, Washington's practice reflects a distinctly personal mythology.

Trenton Doyle Hancock has invented a complex personal mythology that revolves around creatures called the Mounds, human - plant hybrids engaged in a perpetual struggle against thir rivals the Vegans.

Harrison makes use of a multitude of materials and techniques, whether they be found materials or characters and stories from literature, myth, and history, to create his distinctive personal mythology.

During July and August, George Adams Gallery will present a survey of paintings, drawings, and constructions by Roy DeForest and William T. Wiley, two prominent Bay Area artists whose distinct oeuvres have addressed similar narrative and personal mythologies over the last forty years.

«Scapegoated, Discriminated Against, and Stereotyped» — Critic Ben Davis reviews Trenton Doyle Hancock's survey at the Studio Museum in Harlem, peeling back layers of the artist's surreal, sex - and - food - obsessed personal mythology to find a sensitive political consciousness.

Graham's preoccupation with personal mythology positioned him as a master of reinvention, promoting the «artist - as - alchemist,» a critical Post-Modern concept.

Elements throughout the sculpture refer back to Beuys» personal mythology based on the rescue of his downed plane and the elements of his survival; felt, rabbits that provided food and the sled brought by his rescuers.

I am a mixed media artist exploring and creating adventures... working with color, pattern, personal mythology incorporating chicken wire, fabric, tapestry, story naive, primitive, folk art, collage, expressing my voice, the archetypal feminine vibrant, passionate, I, an artist griot shouting my life through totems, hoodoos, dress forms and intimate words, screaming journal entries from the pages adorning what you may or may not see.

Painted in monochrome black, and later white and gold, these pieces evoke something spiritual and eternal, expressing a deeply personal mythology.

Orange blossoms are a major motif in the novel, and also a major feature of my own sort of personal mythology, being a child of Orange County, so they make the cover that much more special to me.

In her first solo museum exhibition, Oakland - born artist Sadie Barnette maps identity construction and personal mythology through the FBI file amassed during her father's years as a Black Panther.

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On the eastern front in 1944, rear gunner Joseph Beuys (b1921 - d1986) was — according to his own personal mythology — rescued from a burning Stuka by Tatar nomads and wrapped in fat and felt.

As our lives become more public, public «reality» is also increasingly curated, and therefore our perceived realities of each other and even ourselves are a curated personal mythology, blurring the lines between public and private life even further.

He bought land and racehorses and commissioned songs from a local band, a practice common among narcotraffickers to manufacture their personal mythologies.

Jacob's wrestling became a story I lived with as part of my personal mythology of illness.

Campbell believes it is our unique quest to discover these personal mythologies and then to retool them to our higher purposes.

As Campbell teaches us, we all makie daily and life choices through these personal mythologies, which serve as our lenses, or worldviews.

«As a teacher, I would often hear students... talk about their family legend with this reverence, and in some ways it was their personal mythology,» says Kiely, who taught high school English for 10 years before quitting to write full time.

Literary snippets, memories, personal mythologies, and art historical references inform the imagery; fused together, these influences explore relationships, domesticity and self - perception.

Partially in response to an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Artists of the New York School: Second Generation (1957), organized by Meyer Schapiro, which included twenty - three artists, not one of them affiliated with the Tanager, gallery members at the Tanager spent five years developing what they envisioned as their own New York project, a series of five two - week exhibitions organized around five themes: Old Masters, nature departed, natured observed, paint, and personal mythology.

Instead, the Museum of American Folk Art presented works with prominent narrative elements ranging from Dial «s personal mythology to historical paintings which address the «Black Odyssey» — the path from Africa to slavery to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.

These distorted figures are a part of the artist's personal mythology, which, serves as metaphor for larger systemic issues that rest at the intersection of class, race, geography, and semiotics.

Working in sculpture and mixed media, Jones» work in part hilarious, part funny remembrance of his personal mythology.

His heap expands on a personal mythology — or maybe lifestyle — of alcohol containers and loud music to match.

This work is a homespun faerie tale, a re-creation of cultural folklore and a personal mythology — a world populated by recurring fantastical creatures and strange hybrid phenomena.

The ongoing discourse, between the natural world but also the exhibition site itself, initiates a conscious realization of our own personal mythologies, and challenges more esoteric trajectories to reflecting a synthesis of our surrounding environment.

This investigation reveals the variety of forms fear takes on, like a shape shifter, forms often found in folk law, religion, film, children's stories, politics as well as in our personal mythologies... the work is intended to suggest a struggle in which hope and magic have the possibility of prevailing.

The boxes of his Coco Mato period, made of minute objects and ordinary but precious materials, reflect a personal mythology, both domestic and cultural, drawn from the hallucinatory imagination fuelled by mushrooms and by the Beat Generation poets» fascination with fantastical Indian cities, like Digpatchan, or the Moroccan streets of the Boulaouane Casbah.

Though the figures and places suggest events both described in headlines and occurring down the block, they also allude to personal mythologies.

tête - à - tête poses a series of back - and - forth conversations across the photographic and video works of fourteen artists that address social, political and personal mythologies of the black body as constructed and represented in visual media.

Pierre's paintings are informed by religious narratives from her upbringing, and are laced with spiritual references and personal mythology.

In this way, I think of my work as intensely psychological, and each photograph begins to suggest a personal mythology and narratives of metamorphoses.

This is in part because the paintings have such an important position in Kusama's history and personal mythology.

Her work negotiates the roles of race, sexuality, spirituality, politics, and popular culture in the formation of personal mythologies.

(4) Much like Matthew Barney, he is developing a personal mythology, drawing on diverse influences (including Joseph Beuys, Star Wars and Jorge Luis Borges).