Sentences with phrase «photographs challenge viewers»

A staple in art historical discussions of institutional critique, Lawler's photographs challenge the viewer to think about the context in which works of art are displayed, and subsequently the overlooked aesthetic choices made by the places in which they are viewed, sold, and stored.

Not exact matches

The collection challenged viewers with the beautiful and the bizarre in a wide range of paintings, sculptures, design pieces and photographs, all fluidly grouped by associations and themes.

Laying aggressively directive slogans over photographs sourced from magazines, Barbara Kruger often addressed the viewer directly, challenging them to critically assess their influenced, consumerist lives.

LRF: The challenge of working on the same subject matter for over a decade is how to keep the photographs dynamic and interesting to the viewer over that extended period of time.

In this book (more a stand - alone artist's project than a traditional catalog) Stettner compiles photographs that play with light and shadow, surface and depth, to challenge the viewer's perceptions and create alternate visual worlds.

James Belfield reviews Teju Cole's Blind Spot, and how it challenges the viewer to find the links and comparisons between photograph and text.

These politically charged photographs and their accompanying texts are not used to make overtly ideological statements, but are open - ended in ways that challenge viewers to test their own convictions.

Much of Kruger's work pairs found photographs with pithy and assertive text that challenges the viewer.

In work ranging from photographs, cut wood sculpture, prints, and billboards, Montgomery foregrounds poetic verses that challenge the viewer to rethink his conceptions of the world, or paint an evocative picture of another world.

Through the last three decades, he continues to challenge himself as a photographer and offers viewers new discoveries through thoughtful and visually arresting photographs that suggest overlooked aspects of the medium,» said curator David E. Little.

Inscribed, a new show of photographs accompanied by personal writing, challenges the viewer's sense of discovery.

Park continues to challenge the viewer's assumptions by photographing each paint - splattered vessel, once more displacing the genre's meditative element with a more immediate, contemporary practice.

«I am interested in the intersection between fiction and representation,» said Diamond, «in deconstructing the photograph and challenging our perception as viewers.»