Sentences with phrase «sculptures out of everyday»

The Weird World of Erwin Wurm Malaika Byng Austrian artist Erwin Wurm creates flexing, melting and morphing sculptures out of everyday objects.

Some of the earliest works by Christo and Jeanne - Claude were «wrappings» in which the artists wrapped a variety of objects in tightly bound fabric, creating abstract sculptures out of everyday items.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

January 12 — March 1, 2008 Jac Leirner creates installations, sculptures, and mixed media pieces using everyday objects like business cards, plastic bags, cigarette packs and banknotes, which are meant to live in transit; they circulate within our society with their final purpose to be destroyed and taken out of circulation.

Best known for sculptures made out of everyday materials that address issues of space, light, volume, time, and movement, Shotz's use of steel wire and colorful thread or yarn is a means of combining sculpture with drawing.

Recalling Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures and Arman's consumer good Accumulations, Cárdenas's assemblages arrange everyday objects, such as packaged food and colorful plastic toys, into suggestive compositions evocative of internal sex organs or genitalia peeking out from behind unzipped pants.

The exhibition features new physical pixelated sculptures («PixCell» s) made out of toys, taxidermied animals, musical instruments and other everyday objects, new works in his Direction and Ether series that visualize the effects of gravity, and new works in his Villus series that cover an object's contours and textures with «villi.»

At 315 Gallery, Amy Brener's hanging silicone sculptures feature casts of everyday objects; nearby in the same booth, Brendan Smith and Henry Barrett offer furniture carved out of Corafoam, a synthetic wood.

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.

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.

Back when Marcel Duchamp put a bicycle wheel on a pedestal, or when the Arte Povera artists started making sculptures out of rags, making work from everyday, non-artistic materials was a statement; it really meant something.

Through a selection of paintings, sculptures and wall works, seven different artists attempt to strip everyday objects and scenes from their associative context, «making visible the characters and materials that weave in and out of peripheral consciousness».