Sentences with phrase «sculpture as physical object»

The carefully chosen, yet wide ranging selection of materials and the attention to construction detail and shapes, point to his interest in sculpture as physical object.

Not exact matches

For centuries, Western art traditions have been centred on creating tangible and physical objects such as paintings, architecture and sculpture.

Giese views his artistic project as one of repair and re-presentation of natural objects; he employs processes that echo nature's slow and repetitive rhythms as he reconstructs pieces of the physical world in his sculptures and installations.

With the intention of creating work that could assume a direct material and physical «presence» without recourse to grand philosophical statements, he eschewed the classical ideals of representational sculpture to create a rigorous visual vocabulary that sought clear and definite objects as its primary mode of articulation.

Many had the desire to break down the distinction between painting and sculpture, to create paintings that were physical objects as well as abstractions.

In converting 2D imagery into physical objects, she creates trompe - l'oeil sculptures, fluid in shape that lure the viewer into expecting malleable forms, when they are in fact comprised of resistant, hard - surface materials, such as blown glass.

Through the studied placement of objects, photographs, and sculptures, she assembles artworks - as - physical - invitations that ask viewers to regard detail and quirk.

Physical experience is revaluated as an alternative to intellectual experience in Barlow's oeuvre much in a similar vein as it is in that of Brazilian installation artist and painter Lygia Clark (1920 - 1988) or German concept artist Franz Erhard Walther (born 1939): I'm interested in an experience that is to do with how you move around space, how you move around objects, and how sculpture relates to that.»

Using photographs and other objects that reference specific bodies of knowledge as starting points for his carefully crafted drawings and sculptures, he then films these images and objects, arranging and comparing both the physical works and the ideas, information and knowledge associated with them.

Ben Butler's sculptures reflect the sensibility that an object stands as a momentary physical manifestation of an ongoing process.

At L.A. Louver, a sharply focused show zeros in on LeWitt's capacity to transform abstract ideas into concrete objects that viewers experience as slippery interminglings of drawing, painting and sculpture — while comparing and contrasting such physical entities with idealized images of geometric perfection, which inhabit the mind's eye but never appear in the real world.

Drawing his inspiration from his study of latent physical forces such as gravity and magnetism as well as the forces that rule our entire universe, the artist creates sculptures from found objects, from a variety of stones, plants and other organic material.

Made primarily by hand in the artist's Red Hook Brooklyn studio, the sculptures function as a kind of logo for their subject, distilling and encapsulating the physical essence of an object and restaging it as icon or mascot.

In his multidisciplinary practice — from live performances involving embedded microphones in sculptures made of sneakers and foam and other electronic musical equipment to sculptural works of found objects (often his own) such as shredded hoodies, du - rags, and basketball jerseys — Kevin Beasley explores connections between the physical and aura, and personal memory and lived experience, with the broader issues of power, sexuality, gender, and race in urban America.