Sentences with phrase «quotidian objects»

He locally sources the tires for each city, emphasizing the latent violent potential of quotidian objects, while furthering his dialogue with architectures of violence and radical politics.

The artist makes portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants, and of other distinct communities, using the focused attention of observational painting to mark those who are socially unmarked in society, along with the apparently anonymous goods that constitute a transnational trade in quotidian objects such as flowers, garments, handcrafts and letters.

The items include quotidian objects such as pillows, furniture, and potted plants; the conversion of these items into art subjects is obvious, given the inclusion of Duchamp's infamous readymade urinal in the stack of items.

Instead of paint, natural seasonal and artificially dyed flowers from corner bodegas and markets in New York City were employed to mark the canvas, applied with quotidian objects — rubber mallets, dildos, bowling pins, and billiard balls — rather than paintbrushes.

Using quotidian objects as the foundation for their work, Lyon and Bustin's practices similarly evoke the mixed sentiments found in domiciliary settings: equally comforting and melancholic, durable and decayed.

The air within and around all manner of other quotidian objects and spaces was also «mummified,» from the space under a bed to the inside of a hot - water bottle.

These are situated atop large, white - plaster sculptures that have been alternately modeled after iconic works from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, or after such quotidian objects from the contemporary residential landscape as a rustic mailbox, a birdbath, and an inflatable garden snowman.

Using quotidian objects as the foundation for their work, Lyon and Bustin's practices similarly evoke the mixed sentiments found in domiciliary settings: equally comforting and melancholic, durabl...

In America, Pop Art was born, investigating the unique auras surrounding quotidian objects and fearlessly appropriating the daily images that flooded the collective consciousness.

This new work, as a result, points to the latent violent potential of seemingly quotidian objects, as well as the complex and inter-related systems of control and profiteering that surround civilian bloodshed.

This group exhibition, organized by Walead Beshty, aims to uncover the fundamental systems that are invisible in everyday life, using works by artists like Franz West, Liam Gillick, Claire Fontaine, and Dan Flavin to question how one looks at quotidian objects and images.

She often transforms quotidian objects or ordinary - looking figures into something new and strange through repetition and manipulation of scale and color.

Composed of glazed ceramic, Jesse Wine's sculptures figure everyday, quotidian objects alongside direct citations of historical artworks that make up a shared cultural landscape.

The paintings teach a straightforward but profound lesson: as in Roman cuisine, where the simplicity of means is a way to highlight the extraordinary quality of well - sourced ingredients, Morandi's poetic minimalism shows that the act of looking at even quotidian objects and spaces can be an extraordinarily generous experience.

On view from September 7 through December 9, 2017, Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson illuminates the roles played by these two pioneers of international modernism in promoting design and expanding its study to encompass quotidian objects.

Vertical sculptures examining how people instil sensual and spiritual meaning in quotidian objects occupy the central position of the gallery; Ugo Rondinone's orange yellow green blue pink red mountain (2015) work, for example, features mountain stones painted with day - glo colours recalling ritualistic totems.

Hyperbolic color planes and tactile quotidian objects are used as props to enhance color interaction and hint at the mundane within an overblown and histrionic constructed composition.

His practice employs collage, painting and video to recontextualize quotidian objects in absurd and fetishistic narratives.

He was an enthusiast for Claes Oldenburg's oversized quotidian objects, Lee Bontecou's shaped canvas convexities, Lucas Samaras's bedecked and bejeweled boxes, and Dan Flavin's fluorescent geometries.

The works thus comprising Alvi's oeuvre not only reconsiders the worth of disposed paper products, but it also points to the importance of neglected quotidian objects — logs, tree trunks, and coins, among other items, combine with the collages and subsequently meditate on themes of consumerism, economy, desire, and commercialism.

G. Daniel Massad's still lifes depict strangely beautiful quotidian objects set against seemingly impenetrable black backgrounds, their textures and shapes illuminated by a subtle play of light.

Roberto Gómez's practice interrogates the ways in which quotidian objects and actions structure daily life, and reflect social behaviors.

Born of a synthesis of art and science — both artistic invention and intervention — formerly quotidian objects morph into dreamlike assemblage constructions.

Broken vases, glass panels, and other quotidian objects seep into abstraction, questioning how we perceive objects and place value, and disrupting existent systems of knowledge.

Using artifacts, discarded quotidian objects, and wartime ephemera, Attia transforms the space of the gallery into one of introspection, allowing the viewer to become aware of the complicated and often inaccurate depiction of our multiple histories.

In America, Pop art was born, investigating the unique auras surrounding quotidian objects and appropriating the daily images that flooded the collective consciousness.

Employing high - key color, a subtly cartoon - influenced approach to rendering shapes and spaces, and a heroic attention to detail, Cerletty imparts startling uncanniness to seemingly quotidian objects and scenes.

The chairs, blankets, flower - filled vases and other quotidian objects in her work further signify spaces of domesticity and maternity.

Examining the form and function of quotidian objects, Mathison builds geometric groups and visual fields.

In this body of work, large plaster sculptures modeled after iconic works from the Greco - Roman era and quotidian objects such as garden ornaments are each anchored by a blue «gazing ball» of hand - blown glass.

In this lithograph by Claes Oldenburg, the famed Pop artist takes his interest in quotidian objects to the page, charging a torn notebook with whimsical energy.

Selecting common hand saws, shovels, axes, baking pans, and cake servers, quotidian objects that are assigned along gender lines of domestic work and construction work are painted with titillating scenes of women frolicking about in a lake, or simply posing in nature.

In 1987, he began to produce works intended for sitting and lying down that focus on the boundary between artefact and quotidian object, thus forming a bridge between art and reality.

She often uses found quotidian objects and ready - made images, stripped of their original context and placed in unexpected relationships and combinations.

As though he were referencing French Existentialism, the lack of human presence is palpable and becomes a quality within the painting that, in turn, heightens the importance of the quotidian objects represented (i.e. the still life and the interior).

Through the process of documenting America's foundation through both mythology and quotidian objects, photographer Taryn Simon reflects on the heart of national identity by capturing that which is often obscured.

By decontextualizing these quotidian objects from their traditional function, Munson creates a new way of looking at them, infusing them with an air of mystery and unfamiliarity.

Schulze, who is perhaps best known for immersive, spatially transformative installations, both acknowledges and destabilizes our existing pictorial understandings of quotidian objects.

Cast in varied, bright colors and presented in the gallery's storefront window on glass shelves, the Brancusi-esque formal properties of these quotidian objects reveal themselves; a «pure,» universal form which, when endlessly repeated via mass production, is intended to ensure brand loyalty.

A leading contemporary and conceptual artist, Michael Craig - Martin is a London - based creator of iconic minimalist paintings and prints of quotidian objects.

These things can not be coupled with the word «mere» in that the artistic representation returns the quotidian object back to us with the additional personal resonance.

There is a delicate treatment with the wistful layers but it jolts you into an unexpected turn with the inclusion of quotidian objects.

Employing everyday objects and domestic materials, Salcedo creates works that serve as monuments to moments of political crisis or tragedy, suffusing the quotidian objects with layered meaning.

Large sculptural installations and multimedia works define Sudarshan Shetty's oeuvre, often employing assemblages of quotidian objects that suggest new possibilities of meaning and perception, through diverse approaches that have included sculptural and architectural elements.

Barrickman employs diverse techniques, bold colors and quotidian objects to create surreal landscapes on large canvases that are visually entertaining but rigorously considered and executed.

Quite informed on the Applied Arts, Arte Povera with the quotidian objects found by the artist, and punctuated with the pared aesthetics of Bauhaus that Berendes presented assemblage and plaster reliefs, which adequately reflected the essence of the fairer seasons.

Swiss artist Urs Fischer is best known for his dramatic transfiguration of the exhibition space, as well as for his unexpected transformations of quotidian objects.