Sentences with phrase «poetic use of materials»

These objects physically express — through the poetic use of materials — feelings of threat, fear, anxiety, unrest, instability, and impending loss.

Contemporaries like Aron Wiesenfeld, Judith Raphael, Robert Schwartz, Richard Piccolo, Robert Barnes, Susanna Coffey, the Leipzig school, Rackstraw Downes, F. Scott Hess, Tom Uttech, Judith Linhares are inspiring for a variety of reasons — the poetic use of materials, provocative approach to subject or the places they take me to.

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He has created compelling and poetic bodies of work using a range of materials that include raw pigment, stone, stainless steel, synthetic polymer, resin, and wax.

Having rescued some two million card entries from the shredder, Bunn used them as raw material to cover the walls of the library's elevator with literary works of poetic fancy.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results - referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

Following the tour, attendees will be invited to participate in a handling session, in which artist educator Harry Baxter will discuss the range of materials Tacita has used to create this poetic body of work.

His poetic use of found materials, printed and reproducible images, his unconventional and inventive mark - making, and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb stains of nature and of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed within Schnabel's entire body of work as well as in the work of a subsequent generation of artists.

His poetic use of found materials and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb the environmental stains of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed in the work of a subsequent generation of artists, including Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Wade Guyton, and Nate Lowman, among others.

Through the use of such materials, Quinn's works are at once poetic and confrontational through their exploration of life, death, sexuality and religion.

His art associates the use of simple and common materials that redefine the nature of the object and its space with a constant poetic reflection on the practice of sculpture, evident in the numerous texts in which the artist has always related thought with experimentation in new practices.

Today she continues to use pantyhose, air conditioning parts, and other salvaged materials to construct poetic environments that meditate on the resilience and vulnerability of the human body and the forces that shape our experiences of the world.

In his poetic use of delicate materials, such as gold leaf, glass or mirror, Hodges» proximity to James Lee Byars becomes apparent.

Since the early 1990s, Pedro Cabrita Reis has made masterful use of architectural materials including cement, bricks, wood, steel, metal, beams and actual fragments of architecture, which he juxtaposes with elements from the visual arts such as enamels, pigment and neon light to create poetic, imagination - led works of great political value, capable of revealing memories associated with the context in which they are located and from where they come.

One of the medium's pioneers is the American minimalist artist Dan Flavin, who from the early 1960s onwards developed a tightly structured exploration of electric light and colour through his poetic and atmospheric sculptural installations using found materials.

One of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Felix Gonzalez - Torres» (1957 — 96) reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor and evocative use of everyday materials resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable, rigorous and generous, poetic and political.

With works dating from 1975 to 1988, the exhibition «Poetic Form» focuses on John Chamberlain's mid-career return to the use of car metal as a sculptural material, as well as his long - term interest in vibrant, colorful expression in 2 and 3 dimensions.

A generation of artists, grouped together under the term «Arte Povera», emerged in Italy in the second half of the 20th century who, influenced by Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana's artwork, and turning to the use of simple, everyday materials, realised a series of works that, without relinquishing a kind of poetic awareness of the world, were profoundly critical of industrialisation and consumer society.

She avoids explicit images and instead tends towards poetic representation, abstracting the experiences recounted to her by using simple materials indicative of the environment and poverty which surrounds the victims.

Using several media, from collage to performance, she explores the sensual and formal properties of everyday objects and materials (venetian blinds, fans, infrared detection devices, etc.), taken out of their original context and rearranged into abstract compositions, investing them with a new, poetic meaning with political or emotional overtones.

A generation of artists emerged in Italy in the second half of the 20th century who, influenced by a questioning of the nature Piero Manzoni's artwork and the ground - breaking concept of Lucio Fontana's space, and turning to the use of simple, everyday materials (that is, stripped of any auratic encumbrance), realised a series of works that, without relinquishing a kind of poetic awareness of the world, were profoundly critical of industrialisation and consumer society.

Her works evoke impressions of remembered experience and landscapes from her roots as an Italian, as well as reference to religious iconography, using poetic ways of combining found and fine art materials — a practice that comes in part from years of living in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she encountered a number of beat - era artists there, and from her previous career in dance.

Each of the six artists will present works aligned with the methodologies or interests inherent to the poetic process, lending a lyrical sense to both material and object by using a mix of individual abstract language and intuitive composition or gesture.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results — referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

While some works loom as softer cryptic poetic construction including Lorna Macintyre's wall assemblage and Michael Stumpf's aluminum dangling orb flooded with colored silk, others like Felix Schramm create physical disasters with the use of drywall and other construction materials.

The artists uses in her objects, materials such as glass, earth, stone and metal and has been developing a poetics of simple things, «autonomous and utopian», which connect the archaic with the present, or even confabulate a future.

In its reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor, and evocative use of everyday materials, the artist's work resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable; rigorous and generous; poetic and political.

One of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Felix Gonzalez - Torres's reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor, and evocative use of everyday materials resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable, rigorous and generous, poetic and political.

I was already interested in performative sculpture; the artists Joseph Beuys, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, and Tetsumi Kudo, in particular, interested me because of their embrace of poetic mythmaking and their use of everyday materials.

Taking previously used materials and turning them into a new product using minimal amounts of processing and energy is a great approach to today's waste - laden culture, and with the Airpaq project, there's something poetic about converting lifesaving car parts into a bag meant to be carried while walking.