The Irreverent Object examines the subversive nature of
sculptural practice employed by European artists from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Her films are attempts at weaving together portraits of morally dubious characters or events, and
her sculptural practice employs a language of minimalism and abstraction to reformulate familiar objects into a state of ambiguity, navigating between negation and seduction.
Not exact matches
Harrod writes and makes work that
employs traditional and contemporary craft and
sculptural practices.
The exhibition investigates this area of artistic
practice by considering a variety of linguistic, conceptual, and
sculptural approaches that artists have
employed for scoring action.
Rosa Barba's work ultimately extends into a conceptual
practice where the medium of film is
employed to explore any possible aspect of its material,
sculptural, and narrative qualities and the ways it articulates space.
Throughout his
practice, Judd used materials such as plywood, steel, concrete, Plexiglas, and aluminum and
employed commercial fabricators in order to get the surfaces and angles he desired, creating declaratively simple, fundamental
sculptural forms.
In his poems, Andre uses words as modular units arranged in sequential formations, in ways that evoke the bricks, blocks of wood, and sheets of metal that he
employed in his seminal
sculptural practice.
Structure & Material brings together three artists who, although engaging in distinctly different
sculptural practices, share a similar preoccupation with the potency inhering in the ambiguous, almost taciturn nature of the materials
employed in their works.
Los Angeles - based artists Oscar Tuazon, who often
employs industrial materials in his
sculptural installations, and Jennifer West, whose
practice is immersed in material and conceptual explorations of film, sit down to discuss their respective work, a shared interest in DIY, and their deep roots in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Famed for creating
sculptural objects and installations from fluorescent light fixtures, Flavin was one of the first artists to
employ a systematic arrangement of color and light, and had a major influence on Conceptual artistic
practices.