Sentences with phrase «sculpture as a medium»

Throughout his career Long has explored sculpture as a medium concerned with place as well as material and form.
On 4 August 1971, Overby completed his most ambitious project, the Barclay House Series, a series of 28 latex and rubber casts made from a residence hotel that burned down, testifying to Overby's conception of sculpture as a medium that, like photography, is able to record the passing of time.
Ephemerality is sometimes lacking in most gallery exhibitions due to the market pressure in our current commercial climate, so I felt my approach could rekindle aspects of 60's and 70's avant - garde performances as well as engage with the concept of sculpture as the medium, or starting point, for drawing.
She began to explore sculpture as a medium, studying with Chaim Gross at the Educational Alliance, and in 1935, her work was included in an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
Durham's work offers a vital perspective on present - day discussions about the relationship between the local and the global; the interface between art and activism; and the history of sculpture as a medium tactically and conceptually entwined with everyday life.
Channer's investigation of the history of sculpture as a medium and of figuration as a starting point for sculptural ideas often emerge from hermetic and elusive origins — iconic vintage designs by Christian Dior or drawings by Yves Saint Laurent — and she will often encode herself physically in some way within her work in a way that is not immediately legible, implicating herself within the work's conceptual territory.

Not exact matches

Whether students represent their thinking with paint, pencil, collage, sculpture, or clay, the medium is not as important as the narrative students create.
One explanation is that throughout his career Michelangelo claimed sculpture as his principal art; admitting that his formal training was as a painter in the shop of the era's most successful practitioner of this medium tended to undercut that argument.
Evron splits his time between Chicago and Tel Aviv, where he began his career as a photojournalist before delving into a variety of mediums, including photography and sculpture.
Acceptable sculpture mediums include metal, stone, clay, wood, glass, resin, recycled materials as well as mixed media.
The first major museum exhibition to explore graphite as a medium in works beyond drawings, Graphite includes sculpture, drawing, and installation works created over the past decade — including several newly commissioned works — by emerging and established contemporary artists.
«As an early supporter of Tracey's work, we're thrilled to mount this unprecedented exploration of her neon sculptures — a medium that is not only appropriate to the neon - rich cityscape of South Florida, but has its origins in Emin's hometown as captured in the film Why I Never Became a Dancer.&raquAs an early supporter of Tracey's work, we're thrilled to mount this unprecedented exploration of her neon sculptures — a medium that is not only appropriate to the neon - rich cityscape of South Florida, but has its origins in Emin's hometown as captured in the film Why I Never Became a Dancer.&raquas captured in the film Why I Never Became a Dancer.»
Factory - manufactured or shop - bought materials: Carl Andre frequently used bricks or tiles as the medium for his sculpture; Dan Flavin created his works from fluorescent bulbs purchased from a hardware store; Judd's sculptures are built by skilled workers following the artist's instructions
Using a variety of processes that include painting, sculpture, digital and new media, installation and sound, the works on view in this exhibition highlight language itself as a diverse medium to be explored, dissected and reframed to reflect the nuances of communication in the 21st century.
Explore 3D design and the dynamic medium of sculpture while creating works of art with various materials such as clay, wire, paper and wood.
Roberts Projects showcases as well as commissions projects with artists who work using a variety of mediums including but not limited to drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film and performance.
Active in the Post-Sense Sensation events from the late 1990s, his work has explored a wide range of mediums from painting to film, installation and sculpture as he gradually shaped a unique artistic approach that has garnered increasing acclaim across the world.
Language as medium also allowed for new approaches to painting and sculpture, and Lawrence Weiner famously uses works as the medium for his sculptures, which require the participation of the viewer to be realized in thought.
When dealing with an artist as subtle as Arturo Herrera, the manner of interpretation is by nature complex, further complicated by what at first seems like wildly varied and distinct bodies of work, each adopting the formal affectations of the medium at hand: architectural interventions, collage, abstract paintings, biomorphic abstractions, hybrid paintings, photography, sculpture, mail art.
Exhibiting a wide variety of mediums including photography, video, painting, sculpture, drawing and site - specific installations, Party Out Of Bounds presents both past and present nightlife scenes from Nelson Sullivan's video documentation of late performers Ethyl Eichelberger and John Sex, to Jessica Whitbread's No Pants No Problem Party, an underwear dance party exploring social gathering as a space of advocating for HIV and sexual / gender rights and combatting stigma.
Artists working in all mediums (including — but not limited to — video and film, new media, installation, painting, social practice, sculpture and performance), as well as curators, are encouraged to submit exhibition proposals.
Through both painting and sculpture, «WOOD [S]» investigates this material as both a medium and an inspiration through a diverse line up of artists.
Whereas some of his paintings achieve certain physicality, his wax sculptures bear the stamp of a painter as he colours and discolours the medium.
The processes of printmaking have had a strong influence on her art, as the meticulous nature of the medium has ingrained itself into her drawings, installations, and sculptures.
Two of Hirst's more recent paintings in which the artist returned to the traditional medium of oil on canvas are included, as well as «Resurrection» (1998 - 2003)-- a unique sculpture featuring a skeleton bisected by two glass panels, in the position of the crucifixion.
Primarily known for her sculptures of tangled webs composed of metal, glass, wood, and cloth, Falkenstein was a prolific artist; she explored different materials in a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, printmaking and as a jewelry maker.
Legends Altered: Maps as Method and Medium, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (cat.)
As if painting is just another piece of material that is used in her sculpture; medium: wood, ceramics, painting.
Nicole Cherubini presentation on contemporary ceramics where paint acts as the union between disparate mediums presents painting as a verb, creating some of the most successful pieces in the exhibition, Cherubini follows suit with Apfelbaum, merging the disciplines of sculpture and painting.
Because the possibilities of soap as a medium are so vast, Marshall explained, students may begin with the same bar of soap and the shared goal of making the same type of object, but in the end all of their sculptures will turn out immensely different from one another.
His innovations have been made in a spectacular range of mediums — painting and sculpture, silkscreen and lithography, photography and transfer drawing — and have incorporated such unconventional materials as newspaper, cardboard, and found objects.
While Minimalist artists such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, and Dan Flavin were gaining ground with their work in New York, McCracken was experimenting in Los Angeles with a medium somewhere between sculpture and painting, in a parallel fashion.
For families with children, Through the Looking Glass of Louise Bourgeois will focus on the medium of sculpture as an inimitable imaginative force that Bourgeois used to great effect.
Her use of commercial slatwall panels as an artistic medium for both Crow and Corvette (2011), the latter installed among three works in the «Collective Conversations» gallery, is a departure from traditional materials of painting and sculpture, but a clear reference to Minimalist and Modernist aesthetics.
No medium or methodology dominates; this is not one of those biennials people are going to look back and remember as «the video one», «the abstract - sculpture - and - stand - up - comedy one» or whichever other fruits are in season that year.
The mediums of the artworks include traditional art forms like drawing, painting and sculpture, but also time - based mediums like video and artist books as well as participatory pieces.
The candy colors of the Benglis paper sculptures, some of which invoke the fearless chromaticism of Indian textiles and the famous spectrum of spectacular tones in the Santa Fe desert, struck me as «skin deep,» to use the artist's own phrase about the attraction of the medium of paper.
Goddard is a London - based artist, currently studying for his DPhil at Ruskin College, Oxford, working in mediums such as video, installation and sculpture.
His work is known as sculpture that pursues the possibilities of the ceramic medium: beautiful and organic forms, flowing marble patterns, and sculptures with cracks and hollows.
Francisco Ugarte, who is based in Guadalajara, Mexico, is a multimedia artist who has explored mediums such as site - specific interventions, video, installation, sculpture and drawing.
Fiore continues her practice of using fireworks as her sole medium to create works on paper and, most recently in addition, glass sculptures by uniquely utilizing fireworks and smoke bombs for her work and compositions.
In her latest, largely terrific exhibition, Arlene Shechet continues to expand upon the ceramic vessel as a one - stop art medium that combines painting and sculpture while pushing her work in increasingly diverse directions... Read More
Henry Moore used drawing to experiment with sculpture ideas, as did Rodin — paper being a far more economical medium than clay or metal.
Iván Argote's practice deals with social, political and art historical fields through mediums as varied as video, photography, sculpture and painting.
The artist photographs the sculpture's individual components and prints them in large - scale format; this shift in scale and medium recasts intimate objects as monumental, architectural portraits.
Working in a range of mediums such as digital animation, slide projections, light boxes, paper cut - outs, collage, print, and wood sculptures, Ezawa maintains a keen awareness of how images shape our experience and memory of events.
Her sculptures often incorporate sound, and the artist uses her voice as a medium for creating expressionistic «troll language» — utterances that convey primal emotional truths meant to bypass the structural hierarchies of language.
Through mediums such as video and sculpture, she plays with and defies narrative processes through the phenomenon of detachment, re-appropriation and semantic displacement.
«Made of glazed and fired clay, Rosen's primary medium, and not more than a few feet high... the sculptures seem to have neither fixed contours nor stable shape; even their scale appears to shift as you look... not so much covered with as compounded of hundreds of writhing, snakelike elements, they are variously volcanic, beastly, catastrophic and unnervingly funny, suggesting things going terribly wrong, but not yet irreversibly...» Nancy Princenthal Rosen's work has been in many solo shows in museums, commercial galleries and non-profit spaces.
Nelson's artistic and cultural interests were even wider and more challenging than some of his famous New York colleagues; in his Philadelphia studio he explored avenues as innovative and diverse as welded sculpture, incorporating scrap or found objects, and printmaking, a medium that established him among the leading innovators of the day.
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