When Ryman works on a smaller scale, his paintings tend to be saturated with paint, transforming the nature of
the scrap materials he works with.
Not exact matches
I find that bike tubes, fabric
scraps, sewing supplies, scissors, craft punches, glue, staples, and cardboard are easiest to
work with, but feel free to use other
materials.
(3) Treat salvage,
scrap or other ship's
material of the Government resulting from performance of the
work as items of Government - furnished property, in accordance
with the Government Property (Fixed Price Contracts) clause;
Spanning two floors of the 24 Grafton Street location in London, the exhibition will feature
works that relate to the artist's ongoing series of «collage sculptures» begun in 2016, characterized by square steel tubing that has been crushed and bent into soft folds that belie their
material construction, then painted in a uniform color and variably combined
with found pieces of
scrap metal and a smooth, highly polished steel disk.
Without formal training (in Lockett's case, deliberately so) and
working largely
with found
materials, Lockett, Dial, Holley and peers like Joe Minter took their visual language from traditional black Southern vernacular art forms like the
scrap quilt and the yard show but adapted it to speak of personal philosophies, social issues and the African - American experience.
Ian Pedigo (New York) has been grouped
with the likes Richard Tuttle, Ghedi Sebony, B. Wurtz and the long lineage of artists that transform low - grade
scrap into prime source
material for making
work.
Working with scrap metal meant working out of a response to material and forms and to compositions as they dev
Working with scrap metal meant
working out of a response to material and forms and to compositions as they dev
working out of a response to
material and forms and to compositions as they developed.
British artist Ptolemy Elrington
works with a variety of
materials including hubcaps, shopping trolleys,
scrap metal and other found
materials, which he remodels into a variety of life forms.
These raw, gestural
works — such as Running
with the Mule, Running for Freedom (1990), Everybody Rolling (1995), Dark Day on the Road (1993), and Cousin Irma's Garden (1996)-- build up layers of psychological drama in thick pours and mottled
scraps of
material that drift along various narrative threads (natural disaster, historical oppression, hope) between the abstract and the figurative.