Sentences with phrase «sculptural presence»

When your canvases are shaped or cut out in the center, this gives them a distinctly sculptural presence.

Some sheets are wall hung, six others take on a more sculptural presence by being draped over pairs of the artist's old shoes.

The surface of each figure is digitally transformed to create a marble - like texture and imposing sculptural presence.

Using concrete as the material to determine the form's character inside and out reinforces its abstract sculptural presence and cultural purpose.

By stretching a single pop song into a day - long tour de force, the artist continues his explorations into the potential of repetitive performance to produce sculptural presence within sound.

During the 1990s he became prominent with his elegant polyester works which combine sculptural presence with a hint of the organically soft or even flowing.

As the shelves occupy the majority of the picture plane, thereby minimizing the viewer's participation, the Scaffali paintings foreground their object - like status and command a strong sculptural presence.

Like many previous exponents of geometric forms, Rodriguez conjures frames and boxes in works like Reds Rising and Grey Canyon creating the impression of depth, giving sculptural presence to her renderings of the landscape.

Mr. Rowland seems to have chosen his objects partly for their adamant sculptural presence and the ways they intersect with the history of recent art, conjuring the boxes of Donald Judd, the soft sculpture of Hannah Wilke, the art - furniture of Scott Burton.

Not that it abandons sculptural presence.

These have substantial sculptural presence, yet are ephemeral in their substrate and light in their subject matter.

This working process with numerous re-workings gives the wrinkled paper an almost sculptural presence...»

With the show In Shape, In Color, Laget has given the shaped canvas an effective sculptural presence without deviating from the flat surface.

Mimicking Matisse's cut - outs, Crowner sews together biomorphic shapes into elegant compositions that expertly meld striking colors with an amorphous sculptural presence.

Regardless of taxonomy, the work is a rustic piece of beginner's taxidermy whose sculptural presence and upper - Midwest charm nicely offset the paintings that surround it.

An artistic take on utilitarian fluorescents over the dining table, the light fixture offers striking sculptural presence — but no harshness.

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Here he presents ten works on panel again using fire, smoke, soot and ash to create forms that resemble the rise and fall of light and shade on a surface — the forms appear like veils, ethereal, ephemeral and weightless yet with a distinctly sculptural presence.

Made with materials salvaged from the Lower East Side, the stretcher transforms the work into a near - sculptural presence: a reliquary of post-Punk New York.

Horowitz also notes the value systems inherent in media by establishing a sculptural presence for his video works, where VHS tapes and television monitors are positioned as objects on metal stands.

«It's the sculptural presence, and the traces of someone's practice, of understanding and remodelling, which raised my attention.»

Still, the gallery is dominated by the sculptural presence of Grande Boules (2009): a cluster of riotously colourful pouffe - like pieces, reminiscent of wholesale bales of yarn.

Not every contemporary artist in «Fixed Variable» breaks the frame, but all eight are in search of sculptural presence.

Wall often presents his pictures are large transparencies in lightboxes, which have a sculptural presence and impact on the viewer's perception of detail and depth.

The paintings then take on a sculptural presence as the layers protrude into space.

The sculptural presence draws attention away from the technical underpinnings of the finite object to a world of imaginative motional processes,» according to the NOME Gallery description.

Says curator Samuel Leuenberger, «the weight of the human body will be felt all around, both in terms of the works» sculptural presence, as well as degree of audience interaction.»

Los Angeles - based artist Jennifer Guidi (b. 1973, Redondo Beach, USA) makes paintings notable for their sculptural presence and luminosity.

«It's the sculptural presence, and the traces of someone's practice, of understanding and remodeling, which raised my attention.»

These composite images were printed onto transparences and encased in wood light - boxes, allowing their presentation to have a sculptural presence.

Albano Afonso (born in 1964, São Paolo) creates photographs, installations and objects in which he gives light a sculptural presence.

The sewn lines take on a sculptural presence.

He also explores the works» sculptural presence, both in the boxes of the System of Display series, each a few inches deep, and the Black Dada paintings, which are literally printed with sculptures and text elements that activate the edges of the canvas.

Michael Heizer's immense earthwork, Double Negative, is experienced less as the sculptural presence of an object than the sculpted absence of a void.

His sensual and earthy paintings have a sculptural presence and evoke the mysterious qualities of old ruins or archaeological relics.

The sculptural presence of the works reminds me as well of the plangent ceramic suites of Edmund de Waal and also the way Rachel Whiteread plays the façade against the implied interior in her deeply moving cast pieces, larger scale riffs on this architectural theme.

There is a sculptural presence to the work that provides an environmental aspect in conjunction with the images.

So material and sculptural presence, as surrogates for this idea, are embedded in the way I think,» Buswell says.

Los Angeles - based artist Jennifer Guidi makes paintings notable for their sculptural presence and luminosity.

British artist Jason Martin takes inspiration from both Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism, making paintings about paint: its materiality, sculptural presence, and transformative, alchemical nature.

The exhibition's title, Blocks, alludes to their sculptural presence, as well as to the phrase «building blocks,» and to the organization of urban space into «blocks.»

One of the works, Lenticular (2013), exploring train of the Planet through figures of self - taught astronomer, filmed at an old observatory in Dundee, is shown in this book together with its installation view of dome shaped and rectangle channels to feature its sculptural presence, while Aurora (2013) is enhanced the work's rather powerful charms by showing images in various sizes.

As three - dimensional objects, the lightboxes take on a sculptural presence, impacting on the viewer's physical sense of orientation in relationship to the work.»

In the 1950s she began to experiment with open - warp weavings, hanging her pieces away from the wall to emphasize their sculptural presence.

The paintings assume a sculptural presence on the wall as their molded stretchers and torqued surfaces project the thick, flat layers of paint into three - dimensional space.

Just the shadow of its straight lower edge is enough to lend the sculptural presence that a shaped canvas confers.

Another equally sized work, Scrap Wall (2009 - 2010), features myriad unpainted and painted wood scraps, which jut into the room and foreshorten the gallery's front space, creating a sculptural presence.

The Bechers» typologies and photographs grant anonymous forms a sculptural presence, showing how mundane buildings express important cultural forces.

A cast - resin sea urchin assumes a sculptural presence in the entry, next to a reclaimed - wood table topped with a lamp custom made by Hudson Interior Designs.