Seen together, their works
present fragmented images of American life from the 1970s to the 1990s, pointing towards the spectacle of consumer culture in general, at the same time as revealing their own personal engagement with American culture in particular.
Not exact matches
A truly contemporary Christ can not become
present to us until we ourselves have died to every shadow and
fragment of his transcendent
image.
The BMA
presents Front Room: Adam Pendleton, a dramatic installation of new and recent work by the New - York based artist that examines the relationship between abstraction and representation through layered and
fragmented texts and
images sourced from the artist's personal library.
Here newspaper clippings, found
images,
fragmented language and everyday objects aggregate into captivating collaged portraits of the world at
present — the US incarceration system, Hell Yeah Tumblr sites, domestic violence month — emphasizing an immediacy of content and material, and speaking to numerous trajectories within art history.
Means of producing and displaying
images are central to his methodology and he unpacks the
image as both subject and object, unfolding ways in which
fragments of the
present can connect with those of the past, the hidden with the visible, and the sentient with the physical.
Powerfully striking
images, portraits of obsolete architecture and natural landscapes, and visions of remote deserts turn up throughout her works, combined with
fragments of text and scenarios where past and
present intertwine.
Conceptualized around the notion of the broken screen, Aitken's films
present nonlinear narratives built from
fragmented and repetitive abstract
images.
This exhibition
presents work from three distinct series primarily focusing on the debut of Stills; works revealing Baum's juxtapositions of
fragmented images and silhouettes of text.
Dreamlands
presents early experiments with cinematic space that jolt the spectator out of the conventions of seeing, postwar works that offer a darker and more
fragmented experience of the moving
image, and contemporary works that often exploit the infinite malleability of the digital
image.
The
images,
fragmented and then displayed as three dimensional works,
present the viewer with multiple, shifting perspectives when viewed from different angles and engage the environment in which they are
presented.
Also featured is an original, rare drawing
fragment of the Foundation Building by Petersen, a digital reconstruction of the architectural evolution of the Foundation Building, as well as
images of student exhibitions and publications from 1965 to the
present demonstrating the development of the Chanin School's pedagogy — which has influenced the study and teaching of architecture worldwide.
Using fabric, bits of glass, photographs, and casted
fragments from other processes, Jones opens a space of possibility with ideas of archetypes and humor; sexuality and identity; and ideas of timelessness, going into the deep past to make
images about the
present moment.
Gathering source materials by casting an inclusive and penetrating gaze on our nation, St. John layers newspaper clippings, found
images,
fragmented language and everyday objects into captivating collaged portraits of America at
present.
Mann's
images taken during this time evoke
fragments of Twombly's creative life and suggest elements of the
present on their way to becoming aspects of memory.
Here we
present images revealing that the axial valley at 4,000 m water depth is blanketed with unconsolidated pyroclastic deposits, including bubble wall
fragments (limu o Pele) 2, covering a large (> 10 km2) area.