Sentences with phrase «sculptures function as»

The sculptures function as a conceptual starting point for the works on paper displayed in the lower galleries; the imaginary environments portrayed in these drawings are the artist's representation of the notional space inside the bronze objects.

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.

Piled and open - ended her sculptures function as screens: closing off, opening up, forming translucencies, windows and backdrops for more narrative suggestions of social taboo, of sexual or economic transaction, and domestic escapade.

The voluminous sculptures function as organisms made of industrial materials and knick - knacks.

These sculptures function as psychological portraits of his imagined subjects — usually male, usually black — whose features are in fact an amalgamation of sources: observed individuals, «types» represented in the media, and ancient, classical and neo-classical sculptures.

The central grouping of sculptures function as an architectural compass in the exhibition.

The grouping of granite sculptures functions as a cut into the landscape, but they also offer museum - goers a place to rest both their bodies and minds.

Archaelogists» grainy photographs of Palaeolithic stone carvings and low resolutions jpegs of Flemish Old Master paintings serve as motifs, and seem to refer back to a past in which painting and sculpture functioned as both parable and symbol.

The eye becomes desperately lost as it searches for a beginning, an end, a center, an exit... During this moment in history when the notions of identity and boundaries come more into focus and are reflected by extremes, the Roots sculpture functions as a projection screen.

How can sculpture function as both a drawing and a support for a drawing?

Cast in wax with wicks, the psychedelically colored life - size sculpture functions as a candle that melts down over the course of the exhibition.

This haunting sculpture functions as a central metaphor for tying together the cross-generational associations between these women sculptors through an allusion to the Greek mythology of Arachne, the truth - teller, who became the first Spider Goddess.

Not exact matches

Dwell Rimini Floor Lamp — Brass — Global Views Inspired by Italian design from the»60s and»70s, this floor lamp is crafted entirely of brass into a botanical sculpture, with hammered leaves that function as shades and reflect a warm, golden light.

After the exhibition's conclusion, the sculptures will be donated to the Billion Oyster Project and placed in bays around New York City, where the copper will fend off predators and the tabby concrete will provide housing, in turn aiding in the restoration of oyster life in the city's harbors and also functioning as a natural filtration system.

Speidel's sculptures, which function as benches, stools and chairs, are constructed from wood, metal and stone.

Comfortable in an advertising campaign, on a concert stage, or in a gallery, their work can be regarded as sculpture, design, and product — a confluence that is unconcerned with differences of commercial enterprise and nonprofit, the varying demands of function and aesthetics, and distinctions between consumer and connoisseur.

Sculptures might be said to have an alien quality too, at least metaphorically, in how their forms or traditional functions (as idols, or totems, or monuments, for instance) can disrupt our usual modes of perceiving the world around us... Definitely.

Other big likes: Louise Bourgeois's cast bronzes and carved marbles; Franz West's lumpy, painted organic form - on - a stick; Antony Gormley's hanging metal sculpture, whose linear materials — and certainly its shadows — functioned as drawings in space.

Objects, storytelling, and sound function as a social sculpture explored in duration.

Given that little besides the dateline connects Louis Kahn's unrealised cardboard study for an assembly building in Bangladesh with Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptured ice - cream cone and Niki de Saint Phalle's mixed media on wood, grouping by year seems to function primarily as an organising mechanism, marking curatorial choice as more precisely the point.

The evening at Swiss Institute will unfold according to the rituals, choreography and aesthetics of color field painting and strategy games, in which human - scaled objects become pawns in activating their own function as sculpture.

As the artist wrote in his studio log in 1975, «I am aware of the fact that this is the tradition in Art which I must connect with — a work of art with a function motivated by the tradition of African sculpture — MY WAY — not Picasso's European interpretation.»

It is these sculptures — these «Others» — that now function as representations, forced into a role which merely illustrates their alterity from history as it has been received.

The work functions as sculpture and painting within the gallery space.

The current installation continues my interest in functional architectural objects, and represents the first time I have created a sculpture that functions as usable space.

Unfixed inside the cassettes loose leaf, so to speak, the material is subject to the same provisionality and indeterminacy known to characterize the sculpture, and as such, functions as unstable elements of what could almost be considered living collages.

Other artists brought geometric shapes into three dimensions as sculpture, with Sol LeWitt's cubic stacks being expressions of conceptual - art ideas, Dan Flavin's fluorescent - light arrangements functioning as paragons of Minimalism, and Richard Tuttle's scrappy arrangements recalling the playfullness of El Lissitzky.

It's sky blue surfaces, accented with cobalt, orange - yellow, green, pink, and red, function as an integral sculptural element that invites viewers to imagine the sculpture as a dancer wrapped in color.

From the beginning of his career, his poems have functioned as entries into catalogues about his work, appeared alongside his sculpture in exhibitions, formed exhibitions in their own right, been published in strictly limited editions, made appearances in scholarly writings about the artist, been repeatedly cited in relation to the development of avant - garde poetry.

While developing several new bodies of work that encompass video, sculpture, and installation (which debuted in Berlin and Los Angeles in late 2014) Trecartin collected images which functioned as both reference material and conceptual pivot points for these expansive group of works.

Such collage works function more as drawings than as sculptures.

Some recent examples include: Milwaukee Art Museum 2010 where Gates invited a gospel choir into the galleries to sing songs adapted from inscriptions on pots by the famous 19th century slave and potter «Dave Drake»; the Whitney Biennial, 2010 when the Sculpture Court was transformed with an architectural installation functioning as communal gathering space for performances, social engagement, and contemplation.

Alongside smaller scale sculptures, the work functions as a humorous homage to art history and form of distorted appropriation.

The facility contains sculptures that function both as tunnels and platforms for pets, as well as benches for their owners.

His sculptures evoke the idea of reuse, form over function, and serve as the 3 - D component of his narrative style.

The show includes six sculptures, a series of photographs, and one video that together function as characters in a melodramatic play.

The current installation continues his interest in functional architectural objects and represents the first time he has created a sculpture that functions as usable space.

Among the highlights of Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers will be Leckey's breakthrough film Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), which uses sampled footage to trace dance subcultures in British nightclubs from the 1970s to 1990s; a selection of the artist's Sound System sculptures (2001 — 2012), functioning stacks of audio speakers that recall those used in street parties in London; his pedagogical lecture performances; GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction (2010), a video and installation that considers «smart» objects and our increasingly technological environment; and a new iteration of the installation UniAddDumThs (2014), which Leckey created as a «copy» of a touring exhibition, The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, that he had curated the year before.

The birch assemblages function both as pictures and sculptures, always insisting on their dual spatial presence and painterly illusion.

The sculptures don't function as an interruption, exactly.

The resulting sculptures are near to the decorative arts, since they can function as vases, but they always shadow mere functionality and Cynthia Gutiérrez.

Clark's sculptures, influenced by aspects of Kabuki theatre and surrealist aesthetics, functioned as furniture and, along with a selection of more than 60 artworks from DRAF's own collection, set up the mise en scène for cabaret evenings, which took place over the course of exhibition.

Crowner sees an element of theater in her sculptures and paintings, as either backdrops or diagrams for performance: «they offer the idea that a painting or a sculpture might function as a proposal for something else.»

«While wood water tanks are a ubiquitous sight on New York City's rooftops, the artist loads them with substantive content demonstrating how sculpture can function as object and as a messenger of critical issues today.»

To this end, Transfer Station, the largest sculpture in the exhibition, is designed to function as a gateway and threshold.

Ranging from $ 60,000 for the early Johnson piece to $ 340,000 for the Mauri sculpture, the display also functions as a coming attractions for Schimmel's major debut at the gallery, when the former MoCA chief curator will organize a soon - to - be-announced group show to inaugurate the giant new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery in downtown Los Angeles in March.

The five levels of the building function as open and flexible working spaces for painting, drawing, and sculpture, and the ramp through the heart of the building encourages public circulation and provides views into the studios, making the creative process visible through the building design.

Jillian Mayer: Slumpies a body of sculptures that function as utilitarian objects, presented on PAMM's outdoor terrace as well as in the Vattikuti Learning Theater on the museum's first floor Routes of Influence juxtaposes artworks in a manner that maps how aesthetic concepts move fluidly across traditional, national or cultural lines, how «influence» in art is understood today as multi-directional, rather than linear in character.

Anyone who's ever encountered one of Nick Cave's Soundsuits — whether in a gallery or on the street — can't help but be fascinated with these brightly hued, provocative constructions that function as both costume and sculpture.

The works in the show will include photography, painting, sculpture and collage, combining to investigate flowers and their ritual function as markers of life, death and the sublime.