Sentences with phrase «religious statuary»

It was quite a scene: Standing in a dark basement filled with shattered religious statuary, I felt like I was on the set of a horror film.

Now, as then, The Uncanny brings together a wide range of figurative sculptures, mannequins, dummies and sex - dolls, animatronic puppets, body - casts and anatomical body fragments and models, religious statuary, stuffed animals, photographs, film stills and photographic archive material; as well as Kelley's own oddball collections of ephemera, which he calls his «harems», and which are now in the possession of another Los Angeles collector.

Described as the «queen of mixed media» in Artforum magazine, she interweaves disparate and unorthodox materials — trees, human hair, scrap metal, silk flowers, religious statuary, and taxidermy — to create sculptures that are both precise in their attention to detail and baroque in their emotional range.

Not exact matches

Kelley's «harem», as he called it, brought together mannequins, waxworks, automatons, medical dolls, sex dolls, movie stand - ins, religious and ancient statuary, along with recent sculpture and photography that evoked these various sources, by Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith, Charles Ray, Laurie Simmons and others.

Depictions of animals illustrate popular beliefs and religious practices, and royal statuary represents rulers and activities of the court.