Sentences with phrase «role of abstraction»

Since its opening in March, the exhibition has been widely heralded for its «political charge» (see for example reviews by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker and Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine), for its impressive diversity of artists included (though I wish this still was not so rare as to be newsworthy), and the controversies surrounding Jordan Wolfson's ultra-graphic Real violence (2017) and of course the Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), which not only raised highly problematic issues around race and its representation in contemporary American art, censorship, and quite interestingly to me at least, the role of abstraction, also had the unfortunate side effect of overshadowing so many stronger inclusions in this year's iteration.

One of the central subjects in Bick's artistic practice is the role of abstraction in contemporary art context.

Jackson tells me that she first encountered new ways to think about the historic role of abstraction during her undergraduate tenure at Cooper Union, where several artist teachers, including Walid Raad, Dore Ashton, and Doug Ashford, showed her that artists could be part of critical, public political theory.

In 2010 My Lonely Days Are Gone brought together ten contemporary artists to explore the potential of a given physical space to generate wall works that commented on the role of abstraction.

Erotic serenity and clarity of thought collide with scatological playfulness, and the historical role of abstraction.

In this podcast Edwards, Gilliam, and Williams discuss the role of abstraction in their work as well as the most important influences on their careers.

This journal discusses and provides research into the contemporary role of abstraction.

The AAA Journal acts as a forum for the presentation of ideas and topics, and to further the discussion and research into the contemporary role of abstraction.

Not exact matches

As Whitehead says, there are periods when philosophers can play an important role as critics of abstractions.

The goal of this work is to characterize the role of dendrites in learning and memory processes so as to formulate a unifying theory regarding their contribution in memory formation across brain regions and abstraction levels.This will be achieved via the development of computational models that start at the single cell level and expand to the microcircuit and the network level, while varying in their degree of biophysical detail.

Taking the role of a firefly inspired by nature, you inhabit a Tron-esque world of abstraction and «bio-luminescence,» teeming with wonder and ripe for exploration.

Featured artists ask us to consider what role geometric abstraction might serve in our current non-utopian times, just over one hundred years after Kazimir Malevich and Vladmir Tatlin's watershed exhibition, The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10.

Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture with that tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes gestural brushwork and photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.

He discusses his portrait commissions, his choice of subject matter, theories of realism versus abstraction and drawing versus color, and the role of the unconscious and the accidental in his art.

The exhibition looks at the role of the color black across a range of practices, spanning Geometric Abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptualism to its use in the present.

In the Abstract uses stacks of bunk beds, lines of hanging clothes, and canvases encrusted with sawdust to examine the systemic abstraction of the world we live in, and its role as a metaphor for social and political reality.

The works in 3 x Abstraction also bring into focus the role of modern and contemporary art in representing complex ideas.

Paintings, reliefs and collages such as the cubist - influenced Beach with Starfish (1993 - 34) chart his stylistic development from representational art through abstraction, while a display of selected works by contemporaries including Alexander Calder and Jean Hélion helps illuminate Piper's role as a champion of international abstract art in Britain.

Melinda Zox is the daughter of renowned American lyrical abstraction painter Larry Zox (1936 - 2006), who played an essential role in the Color Field movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

This subjective, experiential exploration of landscape reveals her place in the lineage of American landscape painting as well as her compelling role in the history of postwar abstraction.»

Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another — and within the larger history of abstract art — for the first time, revealing the artists» role as under - recognized leaders in aAbstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another — and within the larger history of abstract art — for the first time, revealing the artists» role as under - recognized leaders in abstractionabstraction.

In Confronting the Canvas, one discovers the significant role of women painters in the contemporary history (or «her - story») of abstraction.

Paper — its role as support, its propensity to effacement, to abstraction and inscription — provides the model for such a thing as will be written, and read, out of existence.

This juxtaposition of historic and contemporary work brings into critical focus the tremendous role Schapiro's femmages played in the reframing of craft and decoration, while shining a light on the way artists today, both distinguished and emerging, continue to approach the decorative as a language of abstraction tied to the personal and the political.

Bowling's role as curator and contributor to the seminal «5 +1» exhibition in 1969, as well as his defence of abstraction as a viable creative language in the face of criticism from artists such as Chandler, place him at the centre of this moment.

In this exhibition she explores the role of feeling, emotion and subjectivity in how we experience objects, images, or situations, despite degrees of abstraction or transmutation.

It may broaden one's view of abstraction, in case one had missed the role of such African American artists as Odili Donald Odita.

In the first volume, the authors present an overview of Motherwell's career, and discuss key topics including the tension between figuration and abstraction in his work, his role as a spokesperson for modernism, and the critical reception of his work.

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In her largest solo exhibition to date, New York - based artist Steffani Jemison uses the complicated role of language and literacy in black history to explore narration, abstraction, citizenship, education, and the role of the archive.

The art critic Roberta Smith wrote in a 2014 New York Times review of Benjamin Butler, «The results — which also owe something to Milton Avery and Alex Katz — express reverence toward nature and revisit the important role of landscape painting in the pursuit of early abstraction but also feel bracingly contemporary -LSB-...]»

The show reflects on a number of interesting notions: the ways in which postwar black artists have constructed their identity through their reliance on abstraction; the formal affinities between artists of different generations; and the role of non-figurative art as both personal expression and political impetus.

As for the historic role of Texas in Abstraction, Paglia had little to say as to whether what happened here could qualify as a school of thought, the way New York artists were unified under the umbrella of Abstract Expressionism.

Impressions of each city are fundamental to these drawings, as location plays a key role in the artist's oeuvre; as the artist stated in 2006, «People tend to think of abstraction as abstract.

In this video, a monstrous artworlder walks around an exhibition of black monochromes by Alan McCollum, the performer suggesting, in a script sewn together from auction catalogue texts, museum guides and press interviews with dealers, artists and collectors, that contemporary geometric abstraction merely fulfils the role of taste signifier and investment opportunity.

Figuration and abstraction converged with a re-emergence of cartoon - like imagery and developing a personal narrative took on a larger role in her works.

In the first volume, the authors present an overview of Motherwell's career, and discuss key topics including the tension between figuration and abstraction in his work, his role as a spokesperson for modernism, and the changing nature of the critical reception of his work.

This selection of drawings and prints traces a range of subjects, including: «Ideas Generation», where artists use the immediacy of drawing as a means to prepare and refine a concept; «Systems, Architectonics and Abstraction», in which predetermined rules, structures and methods govern the form of the image; «Expressions of Anatomy», where intimate portrayals of the figure assume a central position; «Graphic Narratives / Surreal Legacies», featuring imagery from the fantastically bizarre to the comically illustrative; and «Historia», which examines how drawing has been used to question the role of photography in the mediation and construction of historical memory.

It is curious that this exhibition arrives after a haunting stillness of three decades when geometric abstraction played a considerably lesser, if not defunct role in the global art world.

They're small, they're more sketchlike in a way... One of the ways I'm talking about painting now is trying to talk about these little casual abstractions that look like something a painter could do when they can find a few hours in the studio when they can actually perform the role of the painter, instead of the residency - runner or the blog - poster.

Not so in art, painting or drawing; here the short - hand — dots and dashes of paint or line retain their direct visual role and are continually brought back into a correspondence with the «facts» of visual sensation (even in abstraction).»

Ms. Schwartz argues that these emphases obstruct recognition that Frankenthaler's work could be tough and even ugly; that she sketched outdoors (which no purist of abstraction would do); and that her very considerable success makes her a role model for younger women.

In this interview Rauschenberg speaks of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance of that element in his work; the facsimile quality of painting and consequent limitations; the influence of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime» of painting and the problems of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white paintings; and his disapproval of value hierarchy in art.

Rothenberg's visceral canvases have continued to evolve, as she explores the boundary between figural representation and abstraction; her work also examines the role of color and light, and the translation of her personal experience to a painterly surface.

Impressions of each city are fundamental to these drawings, as location plays a key role in the artist's life and oeuvre; as the artist stated in 2006, «People tend to think of abstraction as abstract.

Underscoring conceptual parallels between the artists» process - oriented paintings, drawings, and sculpture, the presentation examines the role and impact of abstraction as a vehicle for artistic, social, and political commentary.

Conscious of the density and tension of his materials and practice, Wadden's focus on form seeks to physically meld the aesthetic gender and status roles associated with craft and abstraction.

Paper played a major role in Laura Sharp Wilson's layered biomorphic abstractions in acrylic and graphite on Unryu, mulberry or silk paper, and it was used as a support for many of the pieces in Lori Ellison's copious exhibition of patterned abstractions in ink on notebook paper as well as gouache on wood (both shows were at McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side).

The exhibition «Constructing Constructivism» with works from Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection (JCMAC) explores the role of geometric abstraction in the mid-20th Century within an extensive international context.

Routed in the tradition of geometric abstraction all three artists played a vital role in several influential art movements of the late 20th Century.

Key works include Andrew Erdos's Texture of a Ghost (2011), a 6 x 8 foot room featuring hand - blown glass sculptures and a video installation; Josiah McElheny's Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction (I)(2004); Luke Jerram's E. coli (2010), which explores the tension between scientific objectivity and cultural perceptions of viruses, diseases, and bacteria; twelve snow globes by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz from the Travelers series; three stained glass light boxes by Judith Schaechter; and a recent body of work by Czech Republic - based artist Karen LaMonte that highlights the role of the kimono in Japanese culture.