Sentences with phrase «politically engaged exhibitions»

Building on Artists Space's history as an institution whose program has increasingly emphasized community participation and political organization (see last year's Decolonize This Place, which turned the gallery into a weekly activist meeting hub), Coop Fund foregoes traditional media like painting or sculpture in favor of video, art - science hybrids, updated junk sculpture, and institutional critique, making an implicit statement about these media that, for their associations with high - modernist seriousness, are appropriate to a politically engaged exhibition.

Issues of race, identity, the impact of the media on self - perception, and sexuality comprise the sinews of this politically engaged exhibition.

Not exact matches

Fifteen years on, their Dear Art exhibition, originally conceived for and shown at the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana / Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, is a response to Stilinović's text in the form of a snapshot of art's relationship to politically and critically engaged practice in the present day.

The exhibition also considers his work in relation to contemporary aesthetic debates about politically engaged culture.

Since 2006, he has organized or curated over 30 exhibitions, with a focus on artists whose practices involve social or politically engaged themes.

The exhibition will feature 20 works made between 1957 and 1967 covering his development as an artist from the late 1950s through his transition from Pop in the early 1960's to a politically engaged, topical artist whose works tackled the most pressing issues of the day in the later half of the decade.

It could be argued that certain offshoots of the 1980s extended their antennae into the new decade, as that new, politically critical artistic practice engaged with the conditions of its exhibition and the contextual constraints of art.

Her poetic and politically - engaged work is part of museum collections across the United States, and featured in the 2017 exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern.

In this landmark exhibition drawing from several collections, the vibrant works of all three, including Colescott's Les Demoiselles d'Alabama: Vestidas and new works by Thomas made specifically for the show — tell a uniquely American story, from Colescott's canvases delving into a dark colonial past to Marshall's politically - engaged tableaux to Thomas» explorations of female identity.

SFU Galleries support conceptual and experimental exhibitions and programs that explore ways in which contemporary art is socially and politically engaged.