Sentences with phrase «riff on contemporary culture»

Like Roe Ethridge and Elad Lassry, who were also included in that exhibition, Ms. Prager explores Hollywood, fashion and commercial imagery to riff on contemporary culture.

In eighty - eight striking paintings and sculptures, Crosscurrents captures modernism as it moved from early abstractions by O'Keeffe, to Picasso and Pollock in midcentury, to pop riffs on contemporary culture by Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Tom Wesselmann — all illustrating the complexity and energy of a distinctly American modernism.

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Updated with contemporary pop culture riffs on iPads, Captain Sully and John Mayer, dubbed «the Sheryl Crow of our generation,» there are also mocking jabs at Katherine Heigl and Nora Ephron.

Jetzer points to the work of the Guerrilla Girls and Barbara Kruger — whose black, red and white block lettered poster works are now iconic — as examples since both riffed on contemporary in - your - face ad culture to bring to light issues of sexism, exploitation and privilege within American society.

Toeing the line between modern expression and interior design, Zittel riffs on the dimensional possibility of Minimalist sculpture and the infinite customizability of contemporary consumer culture.