Sentences with phrase «poised between»

WALKING INTO «Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions» at Tate Liverpool, visitors found themselves poised between Jasper Johns's 1962 lithograph Painting with Two Balls II and a mid-1970s David Hammons body print in which the artist's features are framed within an ace of spades.

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These works, poised between painting and sculpture, are more reactive to their surroundings than the shrine - like canvases.

Her distinctive approach to painting emerged from the cauldron of the New York art world, poised between late modernism and postmodernism of the 1960s and 1970s.

As radical as he was reactionary, Edgar Degas was poised between two eras.

The exhibition includes works by twenty - one international artists that solicit pure wonder, «a liminal state of being poised between knowing and not knowing, and defined by an experience of something truly new.»

Informed by a research - based, interdisciplinary process, her artworks are often marked by a visual language poised between film and theater, and a series of narrative experiments oscillating between script and document, fragment and whole.

His «camera-less» photograms were made in the darkroom by arranging and exposing objects directly on top of light - sensitive paper; juxtaposing geometric, industrial, typographic and organic forms to create images that are poised between abstraction and representation.

Spalletti's work is always poised between painting and sculpture, in a successful attempt to wed the two worlds.

Poised between sculpture and architecture, Graham has realized numerous glass and mirrored pavilions all over the world since the 1980s as prisms through which we view others and ourselves.

Poised between investigations into child psychology and the distinctly adult, his paintings and watercolours seem to function as a kind of «rite of passage» between the horror of childhood and the horror of adult life.

He made a kind of conceptual yet sensuous painting that he perfectly poised between the two main factions of the»80s, Neo-Expressionism and the Pictures Generation.

Poised between architecture and painting, the artist is also playing with the western notion of a painting being either a window to another world or a mirror reflecting whatever is held before it.

It consists of four suspended taxidermy sculptures, each poised between metamorphosis and flight.

They describe a world poised between two poles of earnestness and irony.

They remain perpetually poised between opening and limit, perimeter and spill.

Poised between writing, art, and criticism, Gauguin brings together many different worlds, all of which should have a seat at the table during any meaningful discussion of art.

Often depicting lone female figures in dreary though regularly exclusive domestic interiors, her canvases convey an oddly charged atmosphere, poised between the tedium of housework, the boredom of rainy days spent alone at home, and something darker, weirder and more theatrical altogether.

These are poised between two video performance pieces by Martha Rosler and Suzanne Lacy.

His grotesque and provocative inventions, drawing on paradoxes, vaudeville and peep show, are poised between absurdity and moral criticism.

Poised between reality and abstraction, memory and interface, Instagram merges the analog photograph of traditional photography with digital coding to form a networked digital image.

Above all, he captures the feel of city life; streets and parks poised between optimism and despair.

His provocative and comic inventions, drawing on paradoxes, vaudeville and peep show, are poised between absurdity and moral criticism.

Pirelli HangarBicocca presents a solo exhibition of works by Micol Assaël, an artist who astonishes the viewer with environments poised between art, science and technology.

Poised between representation and abstraction, the organic and the digital, his work appears to have been pollinated, or perhaps infected, by stray data.

In a decade poised between the avant - garde and big installations for big markets, he helped give painting itself its fifteen minutes of fame.

Three whole galleries are given over to Richter's blurred, history - haunted portraits in black - and - white; to his squeegee - executed abstractions, poised between faith and doubt in the future of painting; to color charts, seascapes and blotchy aerial maps.

Vanessa Marsh, too, seems poised between villages and the great outdoors.

Perfectly poised between our world and another, these totemic figures have arrived to help us confront ourselves and the junk of our past and present.»

Philip - Lorca diCorcia, known for creating images poised between documentary and theatrically staged photography, has had a dynamic career with acclaimed international exhibitions, including a major survey of» his work organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in 2013 that traveled to the De Pont Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands, and The Hepworth Wakefield in England.

These instruments of reflection — visual and cognitive — highlight the voyeuristic elements of design in the built world; poised between sculpture and architecture, they glean a sparseness from 1960s Minimalism, redolent of Graham's emergence in New York in the 1960s alongside Sol Le Witt, Donald Judd and Robert Smithson.

Pirelli HangarBicocca presents a solo exhibition of works by Micol Assaël, an artist who astonishes the viewer with environments poised between...

I mean art poised between the human, the natural, and the spiritual.

From being greeted by Katharina Fritsch's disturbingly hip, pony - tailed Händler (Dealer)(2001), with his one cloven - hoof, to Richard Prince's appropriated Marlboro Man photograph Cowboys, to David Hammons's arcing circle of glued together liquor bottles Untitled, to a huge room - full of Jim Shaw's profoundly weird collection of Thrift Store Paintings (1970 - ongoing), Unexchangeable does the remarkable task of restating the problem of art's paradoxical position between exclusivity and ordinary life, poised between rarity and abjection.

Poised between writing, art and criticism, Gauguin brings together many different worlds, all of which should be considered for any meaningful discussion of art.

Tate Britain, London Whiteread's inside - out casts of everything from hot - water bottles to chicken sheds are poised between banality and a spellbinding poetry of the past

But because traditional Chinese painting has long been poised between figuration and abstraction, many 20th - century Chinese artists have hesitated to embrace this Western tradition.

Poised between the organic and the manmade, the practical and the poetic, Pardo's art playfully insists that form needn't necessarily follow function (or vice versa) instead suggesting multiple and mutating definitions and applications that toy with our expectations.

Yet nothing carries the power and betrayal of the early 1950s, poised between misogyny and self - deprecation.

Subverting ideals of male beauty in beautiful black - and - white prints, often monumentally scaled, his steady scrutiny of his hands, feet, knees, legs, and much more revealed baroque swags of skin, odd eruptions of hair, broken nails, and ropy veins — a willful over-sharing poised between documentary and performance.

While Crash may not have brought much originality to the platform genre, the first game in the series was at the time a high watermark for colourful graphics, and the gameplay was perfectly poised between just - one - more - go addictiveness and argghh - how - can - you - do - that - to - me frustration.

Toward the end a choice is poised between killing a character so they can live in ignorant bliss until the world ends: Or not kill him and take the chance that they can prevent the end of world.

Part of the exclusive Uplands community at the Mauna Kea Resort, this luxury Big Island vacation rental is poised between gently sloping mountains on one side and lush fairways stretching toward the Pacific on the other.

The year is 2039, and Los Angeles is poised between order and chaos.

«[Shirley] Temple must be approached as an intermediary and complicating presence poised between the adult originated film fiction and the viewer.»

Apart from Day - Lewis's mighty turn — poised between clomping Illinois farm lawyer and brooding thinker — there's career - high work from Tommy Lee Jones as Republican scowler Thaddeus Stevens, a fierce abolitionist who learns to compromise for the greater good.

War for the Planet of the Apes is a film that resides in an ethical grey zone, teeming with grand post-human vistas whose shadings of light and shadow are redolent of how the world is poised between salvation and oblivion.

Without a word spoken, the first two shots in Thief, Michael Mann's groundbreaking 1981 feature debut, announce a simultaneously grim and dreamlike vision that seems, in retrospect, perfectly poised between the great urban crime films of the 1970s and the formal aesthetics of the 1980s — the «style decade» that Mann's subsequent cinema and television work did so much to help shape.

For better or worse, «The Americans» seems poised between programmatic procedural and something a bit artier and more ambitious.

The approach to 40 can be a strange, middle - ground kind of time, awkwardly poised between young and old.