Not exact matches
The display is arranged thematically, to show the full range
of Johns» materials, motifs and techniques including his unique use
of encaustic and collage in paintings, as well as the innovations he has achieved in sculpture and the
graphic arts by expanding the
possibilities of traditional media.
Examining the role that African
art and culture plays in the genesis
of Rythm Mastr's main storylines — particularly as a gateway to this alternative reality — this paper posits Marshall's project as a revisionist history in
graphic form that offers a world
of possibilities outside
of the commonly accepted narrative constructed around African
art and modernism and its institutional legacy.
The double negation and its
graphic negation operate at two levels: a question, after Duchamp, as to the
possibility of making a work
of art that is not a work
of art, and a political reflection on what the converse
of artistic work might be, on how work can evade non-work — that which discourages it to exist — or can exist as a permanent negotiation with that which threatens to obliterate it.
The exhibition is arranged thematically, encompassing the full range
of Johns» materials, motifs and techniques including his unique use
of encaustic (heated beeswax) and collage in paintings, and the innovations he has achieved in sculpture and the
graphic arts by expanding the
possibilities of traditional media.
Artists readily exploited the fax machine for its
graphic and interactive
possibilities, positing the medium as a precursor to the then - nascent field
of new media
art and within the legacy
of mail
art.
Not only does it afford easy access for an
art - hungry public who can enjoy the artist's works from their own living spaces, artistically it offers an almost infinite range
of representational and
graphic possibilities.
Melikyan's
art is multilayered, drawing upon the traditions
of rug and textile weaving in his native Turkey, American abstract painting, and the
possibilities of computer
graphics.
CENTER ON CONTEMPORARY
ART: 1420 11th Ave. «Blurred,» site - specific installations from landscape architects to artists to
graphic designers who explore the breadth and depth
of architectural
possibilities.