Sentences with phrase «sculptures of everyday»

Some highlights: Erwin Wurm's larger - than - life sculpture of two figures called «Big Disobedience»; Tony Tasset's monumental sculpture of arrows; David Adamo's small bronze sculptures of everyday objects (flip flops, styrofoam cups etc.); and a street light by Wagner Malta Tavares that will glow in the dark.

Adam McEwen: «A Real Slow Drag» (closes on Saturday) Mr. McEwen's forcefully expressed, three - story solo show interlaces his most famous work — the» «obituaries» of still - living celebrities — with his sculptures of everyday objects and fixtures in machined graphite.

Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) Leading Pop - Art sculptor, best known for his colossal sculptures of everyday objects, such as lipsticks, cigarette butts and hamburgers.

Claes Oldenburg, Swedish - born American Pop - art sculptor, best known for his giant soft sculptures of everyday objects.

Claes Oldenburg, in full Claes Thure Oldenburg, (born Jan. 28, 1929, Stockholm, Sweden), Swedish - born American Pop - art sculptor, best known for his giant soft sculptures of everyday objects.

He is famous for his hyperrealistic sculptures of everyday objects, but in 1963 Claes Oldenburg focused on the topic of home and the ironic representations of it.

His lack of adventurousness and invention in this regard is in sharp contrast to the silkscreening (then considered solely a commercial process) adopted by Warhol for his paintings, or the soft vinyl sculptures of everyday objects concocted by Claes Oldenburg (who can be seen, in many respects, as the anti-Koons, outclassing him on every count of wit, irony, and imagination).

Conrad Bakker makes carved and painted sculptures of everyday objects and places them in consumer contexts and / or gallery exhibitions to reveal and critically comment upon the political economies and relational networks between persons and things.

Whether it is young guns making inventive sculptures of everyday objects or rediscovered older painters, this is all work worth getting out of bed for.

In the mid-1960s and early 1970s Celmins also made a number of sculptures of everyday objects such as Pencil 1968 — 70 and Comb 1969 — 70.

Highlights from the show include Royal College of Art graduate Jodie Carey's eight foot chandeliers made out of fluff from a hoover, Tom Price's animated, small scale sculpted plaster heads, Emma Puntis's mesmerizing miniature portraits, Tatsuya Kimata's ironic sculptures of everyday objects sculpted using traditional marble and stone carving skills, Doug White's majestic palm trees crafted from thousands of abandoned car tyres retrieved from road sides in Belize, Michael Lisle - Taylor's army uniforms crossed with straight jackets, which play to his 19 years in the Navy, and Boo Ritson's large - scale photographs of people she transforms into characters caked in thick paint, which have sold out in her second solo show only a year after graduating.

Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) Swedish artist, noted for his Pop art sculptures of everyday objects.

Her sculptures of everyday items mimic reality, but colored and / or changed in scale they acquire new meaning and unexpected associations.

On his emergence in the mid-1980s, with deceptively simple sculptures of everyday objects such as sinks and beds, this New York artist was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant of his generation.

Rachel Whiteread's cast sculptures of everyday objects and Heidi Bucher's casts of architectural elements made from latex and fabrics belong to Marks, which maps artists» powerful memories of spaces in which they lived and worked.

In the much loved 1987 film, «The Way Things Go,» Fischli and Weiss meticulously construct a 100 - foot long sculpture of everyday objects set to orchestrate a massive cause and effect performance of crafted chaos in the flavor of a giant Rube Goldberg machine.

Not exact matches

I ended up essentially creating my own course through my sculpture class where I would create dresses out of everyday materials for my projects.

However, sculptures like military processions, hunting scenes, elephants uprooting trees, feeding young ones, men attempting to capture elephants, journeys, rows of athletes, lady cooking and more secular scenes of everyday life speak all about the rich and amazing architecture of ancient time.

Mach, a former Turner Prize nominee, has long used unusual but everyday materials in his work: previous projects have included matchstick sculptures (which were later set alight), pieces made of coat hangers, and a 1989 public artwork in Kingston called Out of Order, formed of 12 red phone boxes tipped onto their sides.

In a 2013 interview with ARTnews, Feher recalled what first drew him to making sculptures out of the everyday.

Known primarily as a painter, he created a life's work of sculpture and photography as well, transforming everyday objects into eternal forms and capturing his surroundings on film.

Kusama created sculptures out of everyday objects, affixing phallic fabric tubers to arm chairs, ottomans, and even a boat.

Using only this humble material, which is ubiquitous to the point of invisibility in everyday life, the artists in The Paper Sculpture Show offer a visually stunning, conceptually rich, and playfully hands - on exploration of artistic practice today.

Presented through all of MUMA's recently designed galleries, the inaugural exhibition sees artists explore performative, media and event cultures, and the post-industrial architecture of the urban fringe, whilst others work with sound, light, sculpture, film, and painting in its diverse and expanded forms, offering a multi-sensory register of art and everyday life, from complex cultural perspectives.

Others incorporate everyday actions such as knotting, wrapping, or tying into their artistic practice, as in Lynda Benglis's knot sculpture Sierra and Sheila Hicks's stacked bundles of thread in Banisteriopsis II.

The artist employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living plants, creating encyclopedic and accumulative landscapes that penetrate walls and stretch across museums.

Since 2007, he has created a body of sculptures and installations that investigate what he calls autoconstrucción («self - construction»), working with found materials and assemblage in reference to everyday practices also found in urban landscapes.

He is known for creating poetic pieces out of everyday objects through a variety of media, including drawing, photography, text, and sculpture.

From 1946 to 1952, they lived in Arizona, where Ernst got interested in sculpture and made many pieces mainly consisted of assembled objects of everyday use.

Her immense sculptures — made from traditional building materials, such as lumber and plaster, as well as textiles, Styrofoam, and cardboard — reference her constant observations of everyday life.

Jesús «Bubu» Negrón creates sculptures and performances by inserting small gestures into the everyday landscape: for example, creating a carpet out of cigarette butts collected by street sweepers, or mending a cracking bronze public sculpture with a plaster cast.

His work spans a range of media including photography, painting, sculpture, installation and use of the ready - made to create assemblages from everyday found objects such as books, ceramics, TV sets and other house - hold goods and paraphernalia, which Liu Wei transforms into sculptural objects and installations of eloquent complexity.

Richard Wentworth is a chronicler of daily life; since the 1970s he has played a leading role in British sculpture, isolating the formal and sculptural qualities of everyday objects.

He's created basketballs floating in vitrines of distilled water; encased new vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescence in Plexiglas towers; cast statuary and everyday objects in high chromium stainless steel; fashioned painted polychrome figurative wood sculptures; cast glass sculptures of sex.

Thinking about your sculptures such as Chance City, Wishing Well, and Everyday Monuments, I can't help but think how strongly your work is tied to the idea of «the city» — that your practice is one of a specifically metropolitan artist.

Although recognized for their use of everyday materials in unexpected and unusual ways, these artists» sculptures and installations also stimulate and challenge their audiences» preconceptions of material, purpose, and intent.

The advocates of the nascent movement would argue that Minimalist sculpture is valuable for just that reason: The «best» of this work asks viewers to reconsider the environments they encounter everyday.

Thomas Kiesewetter recycles scrap metal and old plate for his sculpture Blue Violet (2008) and John Bock combines various materials — including wrappings and small everyday objects, such as cotton buds or cocktail skewers — into miniature assemblages reminiscent of cabinets of curiosities.

He has also used sculpture to question «things the mind already knows», as he has put it, casting torches, lightbulbs, ale cans and objects from his studio in bronze, wittily reformulating everyday objects as precious works of art.

George Segal gained international acclaim for his life - size sculptures of people performing everyday tasks.

In this new body of work consisting of sculptures, works on paper, and video, Ward articulates a dialogue surrounding the idea of support — physical, spiritual, social, and judicial — while introducing contemplation of everyday objects.

Reminiscent of the Pop Art movement of the time, his sculptures transform the banalities and trivialities of everyday life into iconographic material.

Rosler works across a range of media, including photography, video, writing, performance, sculpture, and installation, often addressing matters of the public sphere and everyday life, especially as they affect women.

The current exhibition includes drawings, sculpture, photography, and video encapsulating the ideas of constant interest to the artist: place and the everyday.

Comprised of the shards of everyday objects that the artist both finds and creates, the works of Denise Treizman routinely straddle the disciplines of sculpture, drawing, painting, and collage.

Call me only if you are in the gutter, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA Exalted Position, curated by Vlad Smolkin, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Pipe Dream, presented by Night Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery, 170 Suffolk Street New York, NY Gallery Artist Group Show, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY TDW: Three Way Weekend, Blum & Poe, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, and ROGERS, Los Angeles, CA 2015 The John Riepenhoff Experience, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY Let's Be Real, Projekt 722, New York, NY 2014 The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY QUALIA, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2013 The Room and its Inhabitants, organized by Patrick Howlett, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada The 2013 deCordova Biennial (with Dushko Petrovich), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA 2012 Love, curated by Stephen Truax, One River Gallery, Engelwood, NJ Art on Paper 2012, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Take Shelter in the World, curated by Dushko Petrovich, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA In Plain Sight, organized by Nicole Russo and Lumi Tan, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2011 The Idea of the Thing That it Isn't, curated by Rachel Uffner, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY Channel to the New Image, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Battle of the Brush, organized by Corporate Art Solutions at Bryant Park, New York, NY 2010 The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY ITEM, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY S (l) umm (er) ing on Madison Avenue, curated by Jo - ey Tang, The Notary Public, New York, NY Kristin Calabrese, Andy Parker, Mary Weatherford, Roger White, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid», curated by Ryan Steadman, 106 Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cave Painting: Installment # 2, organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY The Audio Show, organized by Seth Kelly, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 2008 The Merits of Silence, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2007 Heralds of Creative Anachronism, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY The Price of Nothing, EFA Gallery, NY 2006 Mystic River, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY / Arcadia University, Glenside, PA 2005 Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX The Most Splendid Apocalypse, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY Crits» Pix, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Halloween Horror Films,, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn NY Summery Summary, 58 N3, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Dreamy, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY Escape from New York, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Late to Work Everyday, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Learnedamerica, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY Tirana Bienalle 1, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania 2000 Columbia University M.F.A. Thesis Show, Brooklyn, NY 1999 All Terrain, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Wight Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Episode 1, Gair Building, Brooklyn, NY

Since the 1980s, Feher has exhibited poetic sculptures and installations made from everyday, recognizable materials: his 25 year survey show organized by the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston just concluded its five city tour.

This new group exhibition features painting and sculpture works by four contemporary Korean artists whose striking and intimate art serves as a record of personal experiences and key moments in life, memorializing the often - overlooked value of the everyday.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Invisible Things, a new exhibition of painting, installation, and sculpture works by Korean artists Gyeongja Lee and Hyemin Lee that gives form to the powerful inner thoughts, emotions, and memories that occupy our everyday lives.

Opening: «Diana Fonseca Quiñones» at Sean Kelly The first solo show of the Havana - based artist Diana Fonseca Quiñones outside of Cuba, this exhibition features recent paintings, sculptures and video works employing everyday objects and experiences to create poetic narratives that comment on social concerns.