Sentences with phrase «pouring polyurethane»

She constructed it by pouring polyurethane over a suspended armature of chicken wire covered in plastic, using a sculpting technique that she'd pioneered in the early 1970s.

When Linda Benglis began pouring polyurethane on her studio floor, creating a sculptural object, paint itself began to function as a readymade.

They left Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, Jackie Winsor's Burned Piece and Exploded Piece, Lynda Benglis with her Night Sherbet of poured polyurethane foam, Michelle Stuart with canvases of graphite and earth, Suzanne Harris's Inhabitant, and Wheatfield by Agnes Denes — long since harvested of its thousand pounds to give way to the luxury rentals of Battery Park City.

Sterling Ruby (born 1972) is an American artist who works in a wide range of aesthetic and material strategies, from sculptures made of saturated, glossy, poured polyurethane, bronze and steel, to drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, spray - paint paintings, photography and video, as well as textile works that include quilts, tapestries, garments and soft sculptures.

She invented dramatic, large - scale sculptures in surprising materials (including, most memorably, poured polyurethane foam with phosphorescent pigment) that can make the likes of Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor and Matthew Barney look timid.

It was therefore striking that Carrie Moyer and Kathy Butterly took the opportunity of a public conversation with Siegel to talk about color — with Moyer zeroing in on the over-the-top palette in Sam Gilliam's 1969 «Along» and Butterly highlighting the materiality of pigment in Benglis's poured polyurethane.

Not exact matches

The sculptures are made of expanding polyurethane foam that Deshayes mixes and pours on his studio floor to create amorphous organic shapes.

These works include her richly layered wax paintings and poured latex and polyurethane foam sculptures of the late 1960s and early»70s; innovative videos, installations, and «knots» from the 1970s; metalized, pleated wall pieces of the 1980s and»90s; and pieces in a variety of other mediums, such as glass, ceramics, photography, or cast polyurethane, as in the case of the monumental The Graces (2003 — 05).

This subsequent survey focused on the exploratory breadth of materials Benglis experimented with over the course of her career: polyurethane foam, glass, enamel, stainless steel, beeswax, and poured latex.

She cast the hardened amorphous flow of polyurethane in bronze and then, recently, amplified the original with another pouring of polyurethane, mimicking the way sea creatures attach to existing forms.

Evoking Lynda Benglis «s pigmented polyurethane foam pieces from the late 1960s and 70s and Carolanna Parlato's 2010 poured paintings, Godward drips, pours and splashes skeins of brightly colored foam and paint, embedding objects in the ooze, like dinosaurs trapped in a rainbow - colored tar pit.

Dripping with glow - in - the - dark polyurethane and mercurial poured steel, HILLS AND CLOUDS (2014, pictured above) evokes beached mats of algae, or bald cypress treetops swathed in Spanish moss in the artist's native Louisiana.

Polyurethane pours like Night Sherbert A (1968) read like a kaleidoscopic, legato reimagining of Jackson Pollock's famous drip technique.

Although the exhibition features a Louis stain painting from the Rose collection («Number 3,» 1961), Siegel's overall emphasis is on the more radical possibilities of departure evident in Lynda Benglis's 1970 «Untitled,» made from pours of pigmented polyurethane foam, which appears nearby.

Cultivating an eclectic formalism across mediums, Ruby creates vivid poured - polyurethane sculptures, drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, spray paintings, and videos.

Male artists by no means dominate, though; Cheim & Read also shows fantastic works by their pioneering female artists, including iconic corporeal sculptures and works on paper by Louise Bourgeois; polyurethane foam and cast aluminum sculptural pours by Lynda Benglis; a work from Jenny Holzer's «TOP SECRET» series; and iconic expressive abstractions by Joan Mitchell.