Sentences with phrase «scale sculptures like»

They make large - scale sculptures like Ventricle alongside other work such as immersive digital video installations.

The floor is adorned in large scale sculptures like «Pretzel Bike» by Catharine Ahearn, a humorous take on the prowess of materiality in an artist's studio practice.

Not exact matches

Like Oldenburg and van Bruggen, Tara Donovan transforms the ordinary through scale and repetition in her floor sculpture Colony (2004).

Bourgeois's diverse practice included drawings, paintings, textiles, embroidered works, sculpture, and installations ranging in scale from a few inches to monumental, fully immersive environments like Untitled (1991 - 2000), the 15 - ton marble sculpture that is the centerpiece of her exhibition at MASS MoCA.

The fluidly curving forms of John Newman's sculptures, with their small scale and gem - like quality, evoke little worlds of intimacy.

Scaled to the artist's height, the sculpture's adult - like presence is juxtaposed with the youthfulness of his pale blue lederhosen, white knee socks, and black patent leather Mary Janes.

He draws his inspiration from existing paintings that he likes, and then reinterprets fragments of them — usually faces — as large - scale paintings and sculptures.

Women like Teresita Fernández, often known for large - scale, public sculptures (and as the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, as appointed by President Obama), or Jacqueline Woodson, author of the best - selling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming and winner of the 2014 National Book Award.

He previously depicted food items in pieces such as Pumpkin Sculpture (1998) and the large - scale, cartoonish sculpture Hot Dog Man (2011), and his use of found objects (like the jars and bottles in the «Spill Paintings») started with My Empire (2011), a 6 - foot - tall assemblage of detritus that came from cleaning out hiSculpture (1998) and the large - scale, cartoonish sculpture Hot Dog Man (2011), and his use of found objects (like the jars and bottles in the «Spill Paintings») started with My Empire (2011), a 6 - foot - tall assemblage of detritus that came from cleaning out hisculpture Hot Dog Man (2011), and his use of found objects (like the jars and bottles in the «Spill Paintings») started with My Empire (2011), a 6 - foot - tall assemblage of detritus that came from cleaning out his office.

The dildo, like her large - scale sculptures, challenged the implicit male chauvinism of the contemporary art world by mocking symbols of male power.

Alexis Granwell's biomorphic body - scale papier - mache sculptures on geometric wood, Masonite, and brick plinths are centrally positioned in the gallery, inhabiting it like curvier, less severe versions of Louise Bourgeois's groupings of Personages.

Mendieta's archives from this period reveal that she had a strong interest in creating permanent works like these sculptures on a larger scale for public art projects.

Recently, Lehmann Maupin signed its first Chinese artist, the 40 - year - old Liu Wei, who works in painting and photography, but has been focused recently on large - scale architectural sculptures that resemble cityscapes and are made from unconventional materials, like door frames and books.

Pickup - truck trailers, boom boxes, and bunk beds become broken down to be built back up in rigid, geometric sculptures that consume the viewer in Gordan Matta - Clark - and John Chamberlain - like scale.

Included in the show is a large - scale site - specific stage - like structure as well as several of her «Assists,» sculptures that must lean on something to stand upright; here, two of them rest against matching club chairs.

Copied and extracted on different scales, and then cast in stainless steel or concrete, the result appears like a sculpture of a wave yet also something primordial and ambiguous, mined from the depths of time; a reminder that the forces that shape nature are more powerful — and will last longer — than us, however much we interfere with the planet.

Large - scale sculptures of compressed vinyl covers are then finished in resin to create a glossy shrine - like piece off the wall.

On display are several new bodies of greatly varied work: a series of paintings based on Amish quilts; a series of silk - screened paintings of t - shirts; sculptures made out of stacks of flattened cardboard with enormous eyes; large - scale pattern paintings featuring panda bears; a wall with photos of cats that look like Hitler.

Highlights include small - scale sculptures by modern masters like Auguste Rodin, Jacques Lipchitz, and Henry Moore; ancient Chinese mingqi tomb figures and Buddhist devotional statues; European bronzes of princes, putti, and classical heroes; and boundary - breaking work by contemporary artists including Magdalena Abakanowicz, John Chamberlain, Robert Irwin, and H. C. Westermann.

For instance, Brazilian artist Carmela Gross's 1968 sculpture of a slab of ham looks a lot like one of Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures of scaled - up commercial products, but Gross's title, Presunto (Ham [slang for corpse]-RRB-, expediently dissuades such a simple interpretation.

His large - scale paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture blended Native Northwest culture with images influenced by art around the world, in the process challenging traditional notions of what Native art could look like, probing how art intersected with colonization, trauma, and identity.

For a new sculpture project he recycles bundled stacks of flattened cardboard into anthropomorphic monsters with enormous googly eyed stares, and the artist's iconic panda returns in large - scale pattern paintings like enormous swatches of custom designed fabric.

Jaume Plensa at Galerie Lelong (G01) With his fame rooted in public spaces like New York's Madison Square Park and Chicago's Millennium Park, it is interesting to see the concept behind Plensa's enormous face sculptures scaled down to a 6 - foot - tall wood carving.

The main room feels overwhelming in scale, full of over-sized and crudely modeled ceramic sculptures, towering red dripping sculptures that look like some sort of giant animal's tendons freshly ripped from its body, and spray - painted canvases hanging on the walls.

When traveling to Greece, he became smitten with the large - scale assemblages, seeing that sculpture makes an unbreakable bond with architecture, and he started making more massive pieces, like Sea Music that stands in Poole, Dorset.

Opening: «Hew Locke: The Wine Dark Sea» at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art An Anglo - Guyanese artist who's well known for work dealing with issues of race and colonialism, Hew Locke makes his New York solo debut with an installation of 35 boat sculptures suspended at various scales from the gallery's ceiling like a magnificent fleet.

With the scale of easel paintings, at a time when Abstract Expressionism had made a larger canvas canonical, they even look like studies for sculpture.

Best known for their public sculptures of mundane objects magnified to monumental scales, the artists also produced a variety of smaller objects, drawings, and the like over the course of their decades - long marriage and collaboration.

HONG KONG — The South Korean artist Lee Bul is known for her large - scale, chandelier - like sculptures and architectural installations.

This exhibition will comprise a series of large - scale watercolors and ceramic and glass sculptures about the sea and a large mythical octopus, a hidden sculptural force, and ghost like presence of fierce emotion underneath the moire effect of water.

Meanwhile, sculptor like John Chamberlain made large - scale, formally impressive sculptures out of crushed wrecked cars.

When it comes to large - scale artistic interventions into the natural world, the movement that usually leaps to mind is Land Art — huge, muscular sculptures carved or pulled from the earth by heavy machinery at the command of men like Robert Smithson and Walter De Maria, self - styled «gruff individualists» who claimed the studio and gallery were simply too small to contain their big ideas.

The imagery of the gum and eraser sculptures is also manifest in larger single ceramic and bronze works, and latex pieces such as Pink Champagne (1975), a large - scale petal - like structure which in all its fleshy pink and tactile softness becomes a highly sensuous and seductive evocation of the female form.

Absurd is a word that suits Barlow's sculpture, too — its daftness of scale and Crayola - box colours; at its best it's overblown, like a comedy red nose, as dock (2014), her recent, acclaimed commission for Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries attests.

Like other artists who have come of age during or after Conceptualism and Minimalism, he has embraced a variety of media — from drawings to sculptures, to single - channel videos, to large - scale, room - size installations.

I see similarities between your work and hers, because you often work on a human scale, you incorporate materials like wood and metal, and, in addition to freestanding sculpture, you sometimes hang your sculpture on the wall or from the ceiling.

The majority of her work has focused on large - scale installations and sculptures: geometric and cage - like constructions made from steel, fibreglass mesh, Plexiglas and chain, that hang from the ceiling or stand upright on the ground in a cluster, and are often cast in light.

They operate, like the forged sculptures downstairs, on a human scale, and their surfaces, although textured, do not approach the extraordinary, almost threatening, impasto Serra has sometimes favored.

It is the nature of much small - scale sculpture to disorient the viewer, inducing a Gulliver - like self - consciousness and a sense of having lost one's way.

Active for much of his career in Nigeria, he's known for his iconic «bottle - top installations»: large - scale assemblages of thousands of pieces of aluminium sourced from alcohol recycling stations and sewn together with wire and transformed into metallic cloth - like sculptures.

Though his focus on form and relationships is more obvious in his three - dimensional work (mostly made up of freestanding folded sculptures and totem - like large - scale outdoor sculpture), the relationships of space and the inextricability of form and color is essential to his painting as well.

In her solo show that opened at Peres Projects earlier this month, titled «Surrogate Painteen,» Huanca's models, somewhat cyborg - like with their impassive gazes, confront large - scale paintings and sculptures more directly, sitting and lying on top of them, facing them and touching them — activating them.

With its diminutive scale, and installed as it is in the brutally simple architecture of a slaughterhouse on the outskirts of town, WE is a sculpture you visit like an old friend at a hospital, with that same sense of familiarity, embarrassment, and fear.

Like Chris Burden, the performance artist whose retrospective last fall filled all five floors of the New Museum, Oppenheim began his career exploring the aesthetic of self - inflicted pain, and later moved on to large - scale sculpture that straddled art, architecture and landscape design.

He moved on, at the end of the 50's, to flat, near - life - size cutouts of painted aluminum that stood upright like sculptures (one of his son, Vincent, holding a fish toward the viewer is in the Farnsworth show), and then to easel painting: single and group portraits of a scale and approach dramatically different from those of the miniaturized collages.

She invented dramatic, large - scale sculptures in surprising materials (including, most memorably, poured polyurethane foam with phosphorescent pigment) that can make the likes of Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor and Matthew Barney look timid.

She will make a colourful large - scale glass installation made of many intricately cut sculptures, using found and blown glass and create an intimate atmosphere between the creature - like figurines which come to life with dramatic lighting.

Eventually, these early drawings started to manifest as real audio cables and other music residue — like CD cases — into sculptures and large - scale wall installations.

His solo exhibition at Turner Contemporary brings together the large - scale tableau «My Ghosts» alongside «The Deerson Series», a group of scarecrow - like sculptures, and recent works on paper.

The former mayor of Jeddah, Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi, who initiated the public sculpture park including commissioned large - scale sculptures by the likes of Joan Miró, Henry Moore, César Baldaccini, Aref Al Rayes and more, which have become iconic parts of the city, and are garnering attentiveness recently.