On display are new
plaster forms that consider the human head as architecture; and a series of new embroidered tents.
On display is one of West's Accomodes, which resembles the artist's earlier works of pure white paint on
plaster forms attached to wires and found objects.
These hollow
plaster forms resemble discarded, vessel - like artifacts, which carry an anthropomorphic charge.
His oddly - hued
plaster forms called Passtücke (Adaptives)- ordinary objects wrapped in gauze and dipped in plaster - are sculptures to be worn by the viewer that contort the body into bizarre positions.
Her pieces, unlike blown up plaster molds from clay, are built structurally and directly by making hollowed
plaster forms using the rags and t - shirts as a kind of support for the shells, which she then melds together with burlap.
Obscured and covered, the objects co-determine with the loosely applied molding paste, tar gel, and
plaster the form of the sculptures, which are very distant relatives of Giacometti's narrow, upright, walking figures.
Cast in iron from an original
plaster form lined with felt that belonged to the daughter of Joseph Beuys's neighbour, the artist Gotthard Graubner, this object's original function was a therapeutic backrest used to support an injured body.
Not exact matches
Esquites is basically that in salad, bowl
form; it is less messy for sure (a good alternative for first dates because who really wants to exchange likes and dislikes with mayonnaise and corn kernels
plastered on face...?)
Last year I visited Migis Lodge by Sebago Lake in Maine and the proof of how much I loved the place was
plastered all over my walls in the
form of photos.
Honeycombs like the one pictured above
plaster the surface of rocks around the world, but how they
form has long been a mystery.
Peter: (laughs) We had figured out a way that was very important to understand how craters
form when the projectile deforms a great deal; so the best way was [to] take an egg, fill ed it up with
plaster of paris, and then you just use the yolk and cook them to different degrees.
HONEYCOMB patterns, like the one pictured below,
plaster the surface of rocks around the world, but how they
form has long been a mystery.
When the
plaster hardened, the researchers could cut it open to examine the interior structure, highlighted by some colorant that
formed stripes distorted by flow.
As a contrast to the darkly massive exterior of the building, the interiors are
plastered in light shades and, since the rooms richly vary in
form and size the interior materials are relatively few and uniform.
There are several... some use
Plaster of Paris, some baking soda, some grout, and some a powdered
form of what makes up Tums!
The Hubs did a great job hanging these really large
form pieces of art since they're quite big and some of them are quite heavy, not to mention
plaster walls aren't the easiest.
So they assign the rumpled, frequently
plastered ex-golden-boy a full - time babysitter in the
form of the smartly dressed Crowder (Rosamund Pike, aptly cast in the Lauren Bacall role).
The block was then jigsawed to a profile that described a hood, windshield, and body to which were appended rough
plaster of Paris fender
forms.
Yet, there's just so much more in
form of Kamui, Suda51's influential, weird writing and the dozens of ideas
plastered all over it.
Acheiving a surface that resembles flaking
plaster walls, with rich pure pigment color, Gross crops and reverses quotidian images to reveal abstract shapes and
forms that are at once familiar and foreign.
Modeling
forms from recollection, as Bailey does, is a modern echo of the mimetic drawing of
plaster casts to build up a visual memory bank.
In one Plexiglas work titled The Vessel 2011,
plaster casts of arms and hands
form swanlike shapes, with the hands holding (or throwing) beaks
formed from modeling clay.
[/ pq] Pink Winged Victory (1960) features a balancing act of lumpy, intensely colored
plaster shapes that reinterpret the Classical motif as an abstract (and, from one angle, unmistakably vaginal)
form.
Across the show, huge
forms forged from wood, fabric, foam, mesh, and
plaster resemble giant improvised toys and architectural decorations designed for elaborate stage sets.
Drawing upon traditional and newer
forms of craftsmanship, her work employs a variety of materials such as bronze,
plaster, glass, porcelain, paper, aluminum, latex, feathers or beeswax.
A cardboard box, a bath, a sink — cast in white
plaster or concrete, all lose their individuality to become universal
forms, and perhaps even quasi-abstract.
Crouching Woman (1906 - 1908), Meditation without arms (after 1900), Torso of a Young Woman with Arched Back (1909): these masterpieces demonstrate Rodin's experimental nature in large - format
plaster sculptures and convey his sensual depiction of the female body through raw, fragmented
forms.
Vieira's
plaster fragments bring the Parthenon to industrial walls, while Esther Kläs's horizontal slabs
form a broken pyramid.
Ian McMahon creates voluminous, pillow - like
forms using an innovative technique of sprayed
plaster.
Her kneaded geometrical surfaces, the wood and
plaster blocks that jut out at right angles from the wall, as well as the aggressive color scheme and sensuous surfaces of her materials serve to make the surrounding architecture more dynamic: A multifaceted compositional intertwining of colors and
forms is created, which neither the space nor the viewer can resist.
Dancer (1943), is made from bone and
plaster and has been painted, its
form is smooth and curvaceous, slightly alien but painted in an organic nature.
Later, Schwitters would go on to make small
plaster sculptures like 1945's Opening Blossom (pictured left), using paint to emphasise the
form.
Geist's painted wood and
plaster sculptures often utilize the totemic structure we associate with Brancusi, but they reject purity in favor of a more playful
form of expression and lively sense of color.
Spanning more than 45 years of her career, the show, titled «Suspension,» exhibits six black ink drawings and 25 sculptures that dangle from the ceiling, including her famous Janus series (1968), a collection of organic, amorphous, bug - like
forms made in bronze and
plaster, and Arch of Hysteria (2004), a double - headed work made of fabric, in which male and female torsos are fused and hung at the waist.
Brazilian artist, Ana Smile, has created a bit of controversy with her company Santa Blasphemy, which creates
plaster religious statues painted in the
form of pop - culture icons such as Batman, Frida Kahlo, Catwoman, Captain Hopper, The Joker, and Minnie Mouse.
It can easily be used to make a copy of another three - dimensional object, by applying soft
plaster to the original to
form a mould.
It's not unusual to discover bits of rebar winding through magnolia blossoms; in Sunflowers the «seeds» at the center of each blossom are
formed by pushing
plaster through the extruded metal of a toaster oven rack.
After hardening, the mould is removed and new
plaster can be poured into it to
form a positive copy.
John Miller A Refusal to Accept Limits, 2007 Imitation gold leaf on various materials including plastic objects, rope and
plaster on fiberglass
forms 20 elements Variable dimensions
The hazy patchworks of light and shade
formed by his
plasters mutate into the soft smog of an out - of - focus picture.
The show encompasses work from his famous Passstücke (or «Adaptives», from the 1970s — bizarre shapes and objects made from
plaster and metal which invite the audience to pick them up and interact), through his beguiling Das Geraune («Murmuring», 1988), a collection of three giant papier - mâché
forms with holes for mouths, to the enormous outdoor sculptures in aluminium and epoxy resin he conceived from 1996.
In these works, Benglis revisits the elongated wall - hung
forms of the wax paintings of the late 1960s, pigmented
plaster Totems, and glitter and painted
plaster Hoofers of the early 1970s.
Many are composed of found household objects enshrouded in
plaster, relinquishing their original
forms to the amorphous
plaster encasement.
The London - based sculptor and video artist blends common artistic materials like
plaster, paint, and lacquer with unexpected organic — sometimes even edible — matter into
forms that look fleshy, gooey, and seductive, if not a bit intimidating.
In LaKela Brown's relief
plaster casts we see an archeology of adornment and cultural currency whose
form insists upon not just a presence, but an irrefutable history.
A 36 x 36 inches removal to the lathing or support wall of
plaster or wallboard from a wall, Lawrence Weiner constructing the work for the exhibition «When Attitudes Become
Form: Works — Concepts — Processes — Situations — Information,» Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, 1969, photo courtesy of Lawrence Weiner, aars / vaga
Barbara Hepworth with the
plaster of her Single
Form at the Morris Singer foundry, London, May 1963.
For example, in the sculpture titled,... And there's my marble double, a heavy gray
form holds its negative mirror image — a
plaster cast of a foam head with rubbed out eyes, imperfections and cracks; a discarded hat display.
Her new work, made in
plaster and latex, revealed a turn toward more organic processes, and introduced the «Lair» as a unique sculptural
form.
These found relics, messily adorned in acrylic paint, act as unusual plinths for
plaster and ceramic
forms.