Sentences with phrase «sgraffito drawing»

Drawn in by the beauty of his objects, which are covered with sgraffito drawing, handwritten and stenciled text, transferred photographs, and sumptuous glaze, at close range viewers apprehend darker subjects and narrative hints to environmental disaster and child abuse.

The Lubbock - based Briggs» woodcuts, sgraffito drawings and installation work respond to her visits to Juárez, Mexico asylums, rehabilitation centers, cartel death houses, and the city morgue.

The Lubbock - based Briggs's woodcuts, sgraffito drawings and installation work respond to her visits to Juarez, Mexico asylums, rehabilitation centers, cartel death houses, and the city morgue.

Not exact matches

His latest carved plaster tablets and graphite drawings arrive at similar aesthetic states but from opposite directions: the painted tablets respond to surface texture and chance operations, excavating compositions through deconstructive sgraffito techniques, while the drawings depart from landscape imagery and are built up into complex, almost - recognizable images created through a process of repetitive mark - making, erasure, and re-drawing.

Classicism, Romanticism, numbers and pornographic sgraffito pop up in a drawing titled «See Naples + Die,» with the outline of a possible temple, a quote from Keats and crude, sputtering gunlike shapes that evoke Claes Oldenburg's early sculpture.

Utilizing a variety of intriguing techniques such as sgraffito and burn drawings, Alice Leora Briggs (Lubbock) creates images with a surface beauty that starkly contrasts with the chilling content — the politics and violence of Juarez, Mexico.