Recently she has explained that she had begun to feel trapped by
her sculptural practice which relied increasingly on outside fabrication and yearned to return to a more private process thus dedicating herself to works on canvas.
In recent years, she has enjoyed a growing national and international reputation thanks to her exuberant
sculptural practice which engages with elements from popular culture including food, design and literature.
Referencing South African writer Njabulo Ndebele's injunction to rediscover the power of the ordinary, this conversation focuses on Mathison's
sculptural practice which shows us how the ordinary is intimately connected to and revealing of wider political circuits of labour and cultivation, of power, globalisation and migrancy.
In recent years, she has enjoyed a growing national and international reputation thanks to her exuberant
sculptural practice which engages with elements from...
Thomas Houseago, whose work is amongst the best represented in the Saatchi show, is an LA - based artist whose monolithic figurative sculptures dwarf the viewer and freshly reinterpret
sculptural practices which stretch right back to Classical times.
Not exact matches
Martineau organized Mapplethorpe's work by major categories — Floral Studies, the
Sculptural Body, Portraits, Studio
Practice — all of
which are represented by pieces hung in the introductory gallery.
Pangolin London provides a platform for Eastwood - Bloom to show his most recent work
which is at the fore - front of
sculptural practice.
The exhibition,
which contains around 120 works, examines seven hundred years of
sculptural practice; from fourteenth - century Europe to the global present.
«It's the
sculptural presence, and the traces of someone's
practice, of understanding and remodelling,
which raised my attention.»
In their first show with the gallery since 2009, artist duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla present a show focused on three works that represent the breadth of their collaborative multimedia
practice and explore existential themes — a
sculptural installation made from acrylic lecterns, dinosaur bones, and the remains of extinct species; a performance in
which three vocalists whistle at a four - billion - year - old rock; and a sound work based on recordings of breath.
While the Assembly Instructions take the form of wall installations, they are exemplary of Singh's
practice,
which includes performances that often take the form of wildly expansive lectures blending fact and fiction or his
sculptural installation The School of Objects Criticized, 2010 comprised of mundane objects on pedestals performing a theatrical play.
This group exhibition broadens the dialogue of contemporary painting
practices by showcasing the ways in
which formal considerations such as color, texture and composition are created with thread, fabric, clothing and
sculptural manipulations of canvas.
His work is included in con / struct: Celebrating Queensland Sculpture
which features eleven artists that represent the scope and depth of contemporary sculpture across Queensland and who have a sustained
practice working in the
sculptural realm.
Michael Dean's hermetic
practice,
which examines the relationship between language and object, is primarily
sculptural and encourages physical contact with the viewer.
Incorporating materials not traditionally associated with fine art into his works — including latex, satin, bamboo, and other found objects — Sonnier began to create
sculptural works that challenged the conception of art at the time, and
which went on to redefine contemporary
sculptural practices.
«The interrelationships are manifest in his
sculptural conception of fashion, his investigation of three dimensional materials, his artistic
practice, and the presentation forms he chooses,
which differ distinctly from the conventional fashion show,» he concluded.
Following on from exhibitions of the work of Garth Evans (2013, curated by Richard Deacon) and Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966 - 79 (2014),
which between them covered the period from 1959 - 1982, where
sculptural practice was very much ephemeral, conceptual, or based on performance, this current exhibition looks at the early 80s, a time when
sculptural practice in the UK went back into the workshops to experiment with a completely new approach of assembling.
Together, this collection comprises a snapshot of an important moment in the extensive legacy of the Los Angeles contemporary art scene,
which has seen significant expansion in the possibilities of
sculptural practice.
Whiteread's own comments on her
sculptural practice also sparked a resurgence of discussion on the topic of «plop art» — public art that seems to have no bearing on the environment in
which it is placed.
Humour and warmth is never far from Pascale Marthine Tayou's
sculptural practice,
which encompasses a wide variety of natural, handcrafted, and mass - produced materials.
Terrain Exhibitions and the Chicago Artists Coalition are proud to present I Am Conscious, I Am Love: Mother's Reflection, an installation by Amina Ross,
which features
sculptural works that explore legacy, inheritance, and femme - folk
practices.
[1] It is therefore not much of a surprise that the solemn presence of her
sculptural practice vastly rests on the simplicity and bareness of the materials of
which the objects are made out of.
His use of colour, form and material as elements in a compositional lexicon, as well as the stained or dyed fabrics
which are his principal medium, declare the origin of his
practice in the investigation of painting in an expanded field, while the way his compositions occupy and transform space are evidence of their
sculptural nature.
The pieces in SANCTUARY represent a marriage of these
practices in
which intricately cut paper reminiscent of her
sculptural work is layered over brilliantly colored paintings.
«It's the
sculptural presence, and the traces of someone's
practice, of understanding and remodeling,
which raised my attention.»
b. 1972 Eureka, California / Lives and works in Los Angeles, California Before taking up his
sculptural practice, Monahan perfected his ability to articulate formal and abstract drawings on paper,
which he brought into three dimensions through folding.
Our integrated Public Programme consist of commissions, residencies, education and interpretation projects,
which attract and inform significant audiences as well as providing artists with platforms and opportunities for debate and critique, as well as developing the discourse on contemporary
sculptural practice.
The Helen Chadwick Archive forms a part of the Henry Moore Institute Archive of Sculptors» Papers,
which comprises over 260 collections containing a diverse range of material relating to British
sculptural practice from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Thompson did not stop making art; text work, performative photographic pieces, objects and large - scale
sculptural installations
which were widely exhibited, but he did not return to painting until he retired from education and was able to devote himself to â $ the day - to - day involvement that a serious painting
practice requiresâ $.
The Nevada - born, Los Angeles - based artist's frequently profane text quilts (this one seems to be an exception) are part of a larger
sculptural practice,
which includes assemblages with a frontier resourcefulness and a no - nonsense attitude.
So, even though the basis for his including fur and fat among his
sculptural materials is rooted entirely in fiction, it made for a dynamic
practice and lovely body of work, the multiples of
which will be on view at the gallery.
The Domino Pitch works,
which Ward has made over the course of more than twenty years, are a nod to his early lineage of drawing
which he focused on before developing his
sculptural practice.
GCC's first exhibition with the gallery,
which features multiple wall pieces, a
sculptural installation, and sound work, is concerned with the evolution of various holistic
practices — such as alternative healing and life coaching — that are gaining significant influence in Arab Gulf states.
In 2014, he unveiled this new model of embodied writing - as - art
practice at the Whitney Biennial with his audio installation 16 Sculptures, in
which he re-created iconic and lesser known
sculptural works from throughout the history of art in the medium of language, infesting these works with an authorial agency hitherto unexplored and allowing the viewer to collaborate in a re-creative perceptual exercise of meaning - formation.
He found in this
practice an ability to create and engage his
sculptural works with the fundamental realism of its physical self and its setting in a manner
which had hardly been addressed before.
The edition is in keeping with her
sculptural practice,
which strips their supposed functionality and deflect our familiarity with an object coded by domesticity.
She soon developed a distinct
practice fusing sculpture and performance, ranging from
sculptural costumes to latex and caoutchouc casts, the latter of
which are shown in this exhibition.
1 In the landmark Zuma works (1977 — 1978), Divola was interested in developing a
practice in
which could be no distinction between the document and the original, working within the medium of photography in a way that was visual,
sculptural and performative.
The
sculptural works in the show reference farming
practices and consider the framework by
which the economic concept of the law of diminishing returns was founded and explained.
Velocity, of course, is also contingent upon kinetic factors such as mass and displacement, and it is this inherently
sculptural aspect of Ohtake's
practice which is often overshadowed by the more easily recognizable imagery of his media sampling.
And instead she discussed the fascinating processes by
which she created each work that Weitman flashed on the screen: her prints as well as how she cannibalized forms from her printmaking and transformed them into her
sculptural practice.»
The San Francisco — based artist's
sculptural practice is rooted in his early work, in
which his fascination with images from cat calendars, the architecture of Neverland Ranch, and the mysterious charge of rooms pictured in home decor magazines formed the basis of decidedly quirky three - dimensional collages.
The artist's
practice revolves around the appropriation of Victorian cabinet cards,
which Butler paints into with delicate gouache in extreme detail, creating strange creatures through the addition of abstract forms, and
sculptural drawing with -LSB-...]
This retrospective brings together the breadth of his
practice to reveal the unique beauty and radical nature of his punnings, plans, performances, and interventions evident in the many media in
which he worked: the
sculptural objects (most notably from building cuts), drawings, films, photographs, notebooks, and documentary material.
His first one - person exhibition was at Tanager Gallery in 1953, not long after Giacometti debuted his walking figures in two major New York shows (1948 and 1950),
which had a tremendous impact not only on the
sculptural practice of the time, but also on avant - garde theater and dance.