Sentences with phrase «plaster figures»

Full of a quiet expression, these towering straw and plaster figures set out to explore the nature of character.

Installations of the artist's life - size plaster figures of ordinary people in everyday activities, pastel drawings, and photographs of Segal at work in his studio by his longtime collaborator, Donald Lokuta.

Each cast plaster figure presents the female body as literally «topless», in a range of poses from the coy to the confrontational.

They are joined by plaster figures loaned by the Kunsthalle Bern — the entire ensemble meticulously restored by the artist's Paris - based foundation.

Down in the dusty workstations underneath the Studio School, she creates amongst piles of old flannel shirts, rags and towels, and mounds of plaster figures in states of movement and arrest.

Last summer, Rachofsky and Faulconer purchased the largest sculpture from Koons's recent Gazing Ball series of white plaster figures with blue glass globes that, following its loan to the Koons retrospective opening this month at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, will take up residence in the Warehouse.

And in Look - Out (2005) by Anthony Kulig, the artist plays with perspective affixing a pair of small - scale plaster figures to the wall in such a way to create a skewed bird's eye - view.

The Dancers, 1971 four plaster figures on wood base 56 x 71 1/4 x 106 inches Installation on the Locks Gallery sculpture roof terrace

In the four decades since his distinctive white - plaster figures established him as a startling innovator as well as a deeply engaged, passionate sculptor, George Segal has experimented widely, reaching more deeply into and beyond his early environmental collages.

Famous for his environments populated by disturbing plaster figures, George Segal is ranked as one of the best American sculptors.

By the 1900s he was experimenting with combinations of tiny plaster figures and found objects.

According to Kate Steinitz, an early collaborator with Schwitters and donor of the Lust Murder Box to the Museum, the title is based on a damaged plaster figure that once lay in the box and was daubed with lipstick to make it look «bloody.»

Kerstin Hansson's army of friendly plaster figures is contrasted to Åke Hodell's audio work, and Sonja Nilsson's ambiguous filmic portrait of a young woman stands against Lucas Cranach's famous portrait of Venus.

In her 1998 show at Galerie Lelong in New York, she presented her first series of nuns, in which plaster figures bent their heads to the wall in prayer, while thick horsehair cascaded off their backs and across the gallery floor.

At the Vatican Museum, an armless plaster figure made by Marino Marini in the immediate aftermath of World War II is rife with ambiguity — did the artist mean it to be a circus performer, as the title claims, or a disguised, desacralized Christ for a godless world?

In 1956, he finally consented to put on display a group of plaster figures entitled «Femme de Venise» in the French Pavilion.

In a large painting and several small works on paper Patricia Treib continues her breezy exploration of shape and color, while Nick Goss contributes a tabletop of unpainted plaster figures cast from elaborately folded wooden models as well as one large painting and two drawings, deftly straddling abstraction and representation.

In Without Words, an unfinished plaster figure of a child wears roller - skates while tethered to an empty wooden storage crate, complicating any possibility for skating.

Photographed in grainy black and white, Epstein's high - relief sculptures are naked, grubby with London soot, ruined temporary plaster figures.

This month, Ann Christopher RA tells us about casting plaster figures, her love of Richard Serra's work and her new sculpture in Uganda.

There are carved wooden weaving tools rendered in an absurdly large scale; ceramics in the form of a globe (abstractions of a vast space); textile blankets; plaster figures with long articulated necks and torsos adorned with felted costumes; appliquéd sandbags; and drawings of patterns that reflect a grammar of the body's motion.

«Nicole Eisenman: Al - ugh - ories» also includes one of the artist's large - scale plaster figures, which she began producing in recent years, and two new oversize wax heads made specifically for this exhibition.

There are times when events boil over in her mind and then her thoughts become an avenue of statues, granite, marble, stone statues, plaster figures that do nothing but move their lips and tremble.

Edward Kienholz, American, 1927 — 1994, Back Seat Dodge» 38, 1964, paint, fiberglass and flock, 1938 Dodge, recorded music and player, chicken wire, beer bottles, artificial grass, and cast plaster figures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Art Museum Council Fund.

Highlights include American artist Jeff Koons Hon RA, whose figures for his 1980s «Banality» series were drawn from cheap tchotchkes; Frank Benson, whose Human Statue (Jessie)(2011) reproduces, using high - end digital technology, a stunning simulacrum of dancer and musician Jessie Gold; and newly elected Academician Rebecca Warren, known for her plaster figures filtered through other artists from Giacometti to cartoonist Robert Crumb.

As a child, I remember casting plaster figures and animals from cheap rubber moulds.

Although the endgame is high Modernism, including Abstract Expressionists (de Kooning, Frankenthaler, Motherwell, Diebenkorn) and Pop (Lichtenstein), Elderfield first trots out a number of Old Masters, including Chardin, Eakins and Gerome, with a provocatively Pygmalionesque portrait of himself carving a plaster figure of Tanagra.

Hannah Greely's old - fashioned restaurant booth echoes George Segal, but Segal's white - plaster figure has long gone.

Titled «Women of Venice», after a group of plaster figures that Giacometti consented to be displayed in the French Pavilion in 1956, the exhibition sets seven striking, royal - blue sculptures by Bove — a response to Giacometti: upright and planar, like cubist figures rendered in sheets of Fimo — in the pavilion's enclosed courtyard.

Altmejd's ability to hold seemingly infinite layers of information manifests itself in a transparent, mirrored and multilevel structure that houses all of the varied bodies of work in his extensive practice: werewolves, plaster figures, bird men, heads, smashed mirrored panels, and explosions of resin fruit.

Edward Kienholz, Back Seat Dodge» 38, 1964, paint, fiberglass and flock, 1938 Dodge, recorded music and player, chicken wire, beer bottles, artificial grass, and cast plaster figures, 66 x 120 x 156 inches.

Fred Wilson, Untitled (Zabid, Sokoto, Tokolor, Samori, Veneto, Zanzibar, Dhaka, Macao), 2011, illuminated acrylic painted globe, tassels, steel armature, plaster figure, and powder coated aluminum plate, 28 x 20 x 20 inches

The plaster figures often have parts that are missing or unfinished, or, as in the case of Tourist, elephantine (the Tourist's head and feet are swollen beyond realistic proportion).

When I was old enough (and careful enough) to finally handle the plaster figures, it was one of the proudest moments of my childhood!