Sentences with phrase «precarious balance of»

In addition to upending the precarious balance of coastal environments, the unions say that the tourism industry is also negatively impacting traditional fishing and culture.

Mixing influences such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, figuration, Cubism, and Minimalism, Salle is able to present the works as «mirrors» that reflect both the wonders and horrors of contemporary mass media culture, thereby creating in his paintings what Roberta Smith once called «a precarious balance of dystopian and decorative.»

I strive to achieve in my paintings a precarious balance of spatial coherence and incoherence by deploying contradictory projections systems (i.e. oblique, orthogonal, converging).

Katherine Tzu - Lan Mann uses acrylic paint, Sumi ink, and collage on enormous sheets of paper to create works that result in a «precarious balance of harmony and clangor.»

As in the best Hodgkin paintings, a tension arises from the precarious balance of illusionistic space and the purely abstract, tactile richness of the surface.

Instead, a precarious balance of subjectivity and observation is channeled from the tool of the camera to the psychology of the subject.

Olsen has painted the subtle tones of the deserts in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the precarious balance of life and death surrounding Central Australia's Lake Eyre, and South Australia's Coorong National Park where he explored the complex inhabitants of the wetlands and the microscopic ecological drama beneath the water line.

First vilified as killers in life and fable, then romanticized as symbols of freedom and environmental purity, wolves stir up love - hate relationships that may have little or nothing to do with their actual character and value to the precarious balance of nature.

On more than one occasion the film manages to strike a precarious balance of being simultaneously jaw - droppingly gorgeous and hilarious.

The precarious balance of edgy egos and vaulting ambitions was maintained by the allure of opportunities to recoup, re-strategize and rebound in the corridors of the Presidency which have now fizzled into a mirage.

The precarious balance of that 90 - mph fastball tipped in the wrong direction, and Chen could never stop allowing dingers.

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Instead of seeing this era as one of precarious insecurity, here's a positive take on job flexibility, possibility, work - life balance and empowerment.

If this precarious balance is upset, then crisis measures based on statistical methods of control are useless.

At the moment, there is a precarious balance between Muslims and Christians, with Muslims making up some 34 per cent of the population and Ethiopia being courted by some of the oil - rich Arab states.

Edward Berckman suggests that the success of the evangelical and fundamentalist broadcasters lies in their ability to hold to and present this paradox: «The appeal lies in (their) ability to maintain a precarious balance: to communicate a sense of a threatened world while, at the same time, vigorously presenting an image of» (42)

If one or two of the legs are taken away, the result is a precarious balancing act.

First, because he didn't actually hit Escobar; and second, because pitchers are walking clouds of potential calamity with faberge elbows, and you don't need to screw up that precarious balance by accidentally missing the butt.

Before you know it, your precarious position at the top of the triangle will be replaced by a more secure one in a balanced family circle.

It feels particularly precarious when balancing the needs of not just one, but two or more babies.

Since the publication of Laurie Garrett's influential 1994 book, The Coming Plague, people commonly talk about pandemics as nature's retribution: something sprung on us as a penalty for disturbing the world's innate balance, for penetrating too deeply into forests and jungles, for disrupting the order of the Earth's precarious ecosystems.

BALTIMORE — A glut of nitrogen washing over the land from car and factory exhaust and crop fertilizers is degrading water and air quality and even altering precarious balances in species diversity.

Portia Cole and John Curtis, staffers at the American Association of University Professors, write about the association's efforts to help institutions and scholars maintain an effective, if precarious, balance.

Shortages of food and water could tip the balance in Afghanistan, Iraq and other politically precarious states

They're necessary for optimal digestive function, but sometimes an illness, a round of antibiotics, or even stress can throw this precarious balance out of whack.

«The Post» celebrates what that means, tapping into an enlightened nostalgia for the glory days of newspapers, but the film also takes you back to a time when the outcome was precarious, and the freedoms we thought we took for granted hung in the balance.

Hounded by the evil Nulkana, threatened by the ruthless King of Thieves, menaced by the cruel Marquis de Vernoux, their safety hangs in a precarious balance.

Egg and Spoon is a beautiful reminder that fairy tales are at their best when they illuminate the precarious balance between lighthearted childhood and the darkness and danger of adulthood.»

So the system is out of balance and therefore a bit precarious.

If millennials are correct and their employment continuity is more precarious than previous generations, or else they really are going to prioritize work - life balance or following their passions over constant, steady employment, then the fluctuations in their work - related incomes year - to - year might make RRSPs a useful vehicle for those years of lower or no other income.

Which makes me wonder: How precarious is the financial health of the US banks and brokers that they need yet another year before they can, oh, I don't know — disclose what they own on their balance sheets?

They're necessary for optimal digestive function, but sometimes an illness, a round of antibiotics, or even stress can throw this precarious balance out of whack.

Deft players can come up with some genuinely amazing ways of balancing their ladders in precarious positions that seemingly defy the laws of physics.

Also new is an account leveling system and unlocks, an addition that frankly seems out of place in a genre where balance is so difficult and precarious.

This, when combined with the finely tuned stamina bar, successfully balances out the number of fighters who come out swinging for the fences, as getting caught with a head kick in the middle of throwing a haymaker puts them in a precarious situation.

From increase the size of your coffers and armies, the construction of buildings that can improve the qualities of weapons, items, and stratagems as well as the ability to romance and sire progenies, ruling proves to be precarious balancing act.

It is this state of precarious balance that provides the perceptual and psychological tension that is the essential source of their charisma, like the moment, perhaps, between the inhalation and exhalation of breath.

«Precarious Balance» at the Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch; «After Photography» at Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris; «What Bird has done yesterday...» at Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna

He has stated that he strives for discontinuity and tension in his dynamic compositions, creating a precarious balance between projecting and receding panels, varying sized bands, vertical and horizontal alignment (the title If refers to this property of unsureness).

Select group exhibitions featuring his work include Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Precarious Balance, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand (2016); Desire for Freedom, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland (2013); HEIMsuchung: Uncanny Spaces in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2013); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); and Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2011).

She uses everyday materials such as cardboard, plaster, plywood, and resin, pushing the limits of their physical properties to create a sense of precarious balance and impending collapse.

2010 Precarious Balance: Noguchi's Sculpture of the 1940s in Context, Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York, NY Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY Abstract Expressionist New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Select group exhibitions of his work include Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Precarious Balance, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand (2016); Desire for Freedom, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland (2013); Heimsuchung: Uncanny Spaces in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2013); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); and Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2011).

Through a series of concrete and abstract geographies and their latent meanings, in A Staggering Territory Asbjørn Skou offers a critical perspective on contemporary urban planning and its consequences which are presented as a precarious terrain balancing between disaster and utopia.

Within each work there is a precarious sense of balance that may shift and collapse at any time.

But these reactions might also be taken as evidence of a shared strength: the always delicate, sometimes precarious balance that each artist maintained between raw materials and aesthetic impulses, between improvisational process and final statement.

2016 Puff Pieces, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY The Language of Things, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi - Fructose, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA The MAC, Belfast, United Kingdom Ambient Play, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Australia ME, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom Precarious Balance, CoCA, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand Die sieben Todsünden, Diözesanmuseum St. Afra, Augsburg, Germany Discomfort: Experiments in Furniture, Function and Form, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clifton, NJ

In her recent installations for Documenta 13 a series of masks were formed from computer packaging and drinking glasses balanced to create a precarious bamboo forest.

On a formal level, the execution of the piece conveys mystery and a precarious balance from the odd placement of the parts and the shadows created by light as it passes through the holes, a perfect engagement of material with the psychological anxiety that was Surrealism.

As in previous exhibitions (for instance, the 2010 exhibition Micro, Aureo, Adela at MACRO, Rome, or Tamaris at Château de Montbéliard in 2012), salt is a central element of the work, a precarious testimony of the subtle balance between form and the unformed, pure geometry and chaos.

In the former times presenting research as a strategy for artistic practice, had remained the sole domain of research funding from higher education institutions, as it is often a precarious and beguiling balance based on strategic re-formulation; Slavs» and Tartars» regional linguistic web - like encasing or Simon Fujiwara's intriguing journeys involving gumshoe archeology, travel and sexuality are dependent on revealing specific correlations; their instigations have won over funders willing to stay the course, a condition that allows a great deal of curatorial independence.