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.
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.
Not exact matches
@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade
personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed
through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age
mythologies and their many derivations since.
Throughout his practice, he plumbs the simultaneous degradation and accretion of meaning
through the process of
mythology, often embodied in forms strongly associated with sub-cultural communities,
personal memorials, or historical obscurities.
The exhibition presents an experimental form of storytelling
through a combination of video, photography, sculpture, drawing, and an artist's book, that examines the way narratives develop
through geography, history,
mythology, fiction and
personal experience.
In the years before the mid-1980s art market boom, Schnabel forged a pictorial language that embraced unconventional methods and materials with a visceral effect; he introduced to the American contemporary art scene a particularly European post-war sensibility
through his admiration for Francis Picabia and his
personal artistic dialogue with Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo; and he broke with the prevailing conceptualism
through figuration,
personal narratives and references to history and
mythology.
Lori Merhige's installation, Matriarch, explores family
mythology and
personal narrative
through a reconsideration of a family heirloom — her grandmother's embroidery — repositioning it as part of a larger installation driven by loss and reconciliation.
The exhibition continues the programme Barney has developed over the last seven years in which narrative sculpture is generated
through a complex system of storytelling that intertwines
personal, historical, and modern
mythologies.
Exhibition explores collapse of the modern universalist project
through formal investigations of Constructivist pedagogical experiments, combined with my
personal mythologies.
A narrative element grounded in literature, history and
mythology, as well as in
personal experiences, feelings and relationships, runs
through these works.
His works are not specifically autobiographical, but express the artist's identity and sexuality
through a
personal mythology and aesthetic sensibility that oscillates between baroque opulence and minimalist asceticism.
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.
His use of space refers strongly to the formalists concern for edge but go beyond that in the regard for image — the content therein alluding to a
personal mythology of forms which are delivered
through a primitive, gestural handling of the paint.
«A reformulation of ancient
mythologies that merged together become part of my artwork in conjunction with my
personal experience of the sacred
through mythical stories, traditions and legends, rituals, superstitions and intuitive revelations.