Sentences with phrase «sculptures imbued»

Working with clay, wood and other materials, Nao Mastsunaga makes sculpture imbued with a primal spirit.

Whether executed as simple strings of lightbulbs or glimmering floor sculptures, his forms echo the practice of Minimalist sculpture imbued with an underlying current of poetic intimacy and political content.

Not exact matches

«In her most recent work, Genzken confronts one of the prime calamities of sculpture in the present: a terror that emerges from both the universal equivalence and exchangeability of all objects and materials and the simultaneous impossibility of imbuing any transgressive definition of sculpture with priorities or criteria of selection, of choice, let alone judgment (be it artisanal skills, choice of objects or materials, or the analytical intelligence to identify the specific structure of a contextualized readymade).

An influential artist in the fields of kinetic sculpture and experimental filmmaking during the mid-to-late twentieth century, Breer made stop - motion films that grew out of a desire to imbue his paintings with movement.

Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events.

A contemporary of Pollock and de Kooning and a pioneer of what has been called «confessional art,» she imbued her spindly sculptures with a rare emotional intensity and a searching psychoanalytical sense of purpose.

The energy that imbues these pieces is infectious, and necessarily so: the viewer participates in the work by physically moving around the gallery: circling the glass sculptures to watch them sparkle from all angles; gazing up and peering down; approaching the paintings and inspecting them from sniffing distance, to reveal the secret symbols that construct their artful chaos.

Imbued with a blend of dark humor and chilling realism, the satirical sculptures of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan are known to both amuse and horrify the viewers.

Bove is known for her glyphs, strong steel sculptures, referencing language and meaning — appearing flexible, permutable, and imbued with a living energy, yet weighty and fixed.

Imbued with an appearance of scientific rationality, Conrad Shawcross's sculptures explore subjects that lie on the borders of geometry and philosophy, physics and metaphysics.

If Edwards» sculptures suggest that human technologies might be imbued with a kind of quasi-animist life force, so too in its way does Lee Lozano's painting No title (ca. 1963 - 4).

The New York — based artist Kevin Beasley imbues his sculptures with both personal associations and references to current events, social movements, and economic realities.

Working in sculpture, collage, photography, video, installation, and performance, Ward captures the makeshift qualities of everyday life and imbues his production with a visceral relationship to history and the real world.

Feher's sculptures are often imbued with a startling beauty - startling, perhaps, because we are ill accustomed to giving most of the materials he employs a second glance, let alone perceiving their subtle poetry.

«Driving by her home in rural Massachusetts, Braman will often find such abandoned fragments by the side of the road, and later imbue them with the same significance as the pure forms of major postmodern sculpture.»

Working in a variety of media from light to wood to paint, these artists» geometric sculptures and paintings, carefully crafted with moments of exacting perfection, delibertly retain the presence of the wayward human gesture and humble hand - made mark, imbuing them with a quiet and understated transcendental beauty.

The artist focuses on the personal memories we each bring to our experiences in both his performances and his sculptures, embedding them with objects and sounds imbued with personal experience.

The emphasis of the first section is perhaps best summarized by the little - known post-war artist John Latham's room full of paintings and sculptures glutted with parts of, or whole, books; as part of his practice, Latham also burned books in order to imbue himself with «gray matter,» as the wall text notes.

Sharing an affinity with other conceptual minimalist installations of the 1960s, Edwards» choice of barbed wire as material imbues this sculpture with social and political meaning.

The resulting works - including painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and video - transform the ordinary into something beguiling, loaded with narrative and metaphor, and imbued with an arresting sense of humanity.

The handmade props and stage sets for her performances subsequently have an afterlife as sculpture and installation work, imbued with the values of her performances.

To Franz West sculpture was not a stationary block imbued with an aura, but rather a hinge, or wedge intended to produce a new connection between artist and public.

Bringing together a selection of rubbings, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations, this part of the exhibition explores how materials themselves are imbued with charged histories as a result of their making, their use, and the economies in which they circulate.

One of the simplest sculptures at Lehmann Maupin, and the one imbued with the most autobiographical resonance, was titled Scape (2012).

«My sculptures are imbued with healing intent and energy,» explains Wheatley.

The sculptures and prints on show are testimony to Puryear's technical excellence and ability to imbue the wood, metal, wire and willow he uses with a simple elegance, but also a sense of historical meaning, feeling, sometimes even humour.

It is thought that these sensuous figures informed the seemingly abstract forms of his sculptures, imbuing them with an anthropomorphic quality that is not always immediately apparent.

The resulting works — including painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and video — transform the ordinary into something beguiling, loaded with narrative and metaphor, and imbued with an arresting sense of humanity.

Her sculptures evoke the play of wind and air, sunlight and sea spray on the Cornish coast, and seem imbued with an inner calmness and strength.

Ann Course «s playful silk - screen prints and silicon sculptures are imbued with a sense of personal recollection and recurring motifs.

Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials, marks, and processes with surprising significance.

The bronze gives the sculpture an elegance and majesty that is common with the great sculptures of history, while the high textured surface of the wooden original remains, imbuing it with a tactility and intimacy that can only come from a hand created work.

The sculptures, installations, and video projections on view evoked a present tense where technology has imbued every aspect of human life, and therefore reshaped the mechanisms of our affections.

Brown's interest in ceramic doll parts relates to the «creaturely character» with which they imbue her sculptures.

His art includes sculpture, installation, performance and Land art and is guided by the notion of «negation» where ordinary objects are imbued with metaphysical meanings, according to Lévy Gorvy.

Based in New York, Hammons had been working in Europe at the time and was already known for the insightful comments on race and society imbued in his installations, performances, and mixed media sculpture and paintings.

Salcedo employs objects from the past, objects imbued with an important sense of history and, through these contemporary memory sculptures, illustrates the flow of time.

Opening: «Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan» at Asia Society A survey of sculptures from Japan's Kamakura period (dating from 1185 to 1333), this exhibition brings together a group of unique realist icons imbued with sacred powers.

While Yves Klein's deep blue sculpture of a female torso represents an idealization of the human body, A.R. Penck's phallic and roughly hewn wood sculpture, Untitled (1983), is imbued with a certain violence and existential isolation.

My animations and sculptures focus on understanding how, and if, environments and its geological qualities imbue sentiment and distinct character to its inhabitants.

Known for her anthropomorphic weather balloon sculptures in her four - decades - long practice, she deeply explores the architecture of the body, reducing the feminine body to its most elemental features and manipulating them into minimal objects imbued with acidic humor and absurd hypersexuality.

This struggle to imbue sculptures with «the informing spirit» echoes the move towards a new dynamism and vibrancy in the work of the New Sculptors from the late 1870s onward.

Dean's organic - looking sculptures are built up from clumps of concrete in a two - part process that imbues each piece with a unique story.

The work is a joyous marriage of Klein's theories of immateriality and Tinguely's drive to imbue sculpture with movement.

Her paintings, drawings, and mixed media sculptures reconstruct and reinterpret the lives of the people profiled, bridging materiality and immateriality by imbuing the ordinary with the occult.

Sexual confusion, mistaken identity, decadence, and lost innocence are among the themes Nir Hod confronts in his work, motifs that animated his earlier production of poetry, music, sculpture, and photographs and imbue his recent «Genius» (2008 - 2011) paintings.

John Chamberlain ca. 1964Untitled (Tiny Piece) wonderfully embodies Chamberlain's ability to «choose» objects and arrange them in such a fashion as to imbue the finished sculpture with an incredible pathos and vitality.

Essays are available that place these artists in an historical context with anecdotes about their lives, but it is the stories these artists tell through their art that imbues their sculptures with an overriding, universal emotional content.

With their chain - sawed, charred surfaces and serial arrangements in blocklike masses, Shigeo Toya's wood sculptures suggest a Japanese variation on Western Minimalism; it is as if works by Carl Andre and Donald Judd were suddenly imbued with a Zen - like «primal spirit.»

Assembled from reclaimed everyday objects and combined into a totality through a monochromatic coat of paint, her sculptures were imbued with a poetic harmony that converts the mundane into the mystical.