Sentences with phrase «significant artists shaping»

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Beginning with significant historical works from artists such as Richard Long, who was one of the first artists to make walking his art form, to Ana Mendieta, who carved and shaped her own figure into the earth and documented these private sculptural performances, to Michelangelo Pistoletto's performance, Walking Sculpture, in which he and a group of people walked a large newspaper ball down the streets of Turin, the exhibition will include works from all decades since the 60s and commission artists to create new work for 2017.

Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public to foster radical imagination, empathy, and positive social change.

Galleries come in all shapes and sizes, and while some of them are committed to showing artists who they believe are historically significant and will go down in art history as significant, others are more motivated to show art that is «commercially viable.»

Conceived as a think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street Arts Center invites artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public.

The particular monuments the artist is looking at are all ones that are personally significant to her and are these monuments and memorials that commemorate figures, events, and places she grew up with or have played an important part in shaping her very conception of a personal history.

Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public.

Jim Hodges: sometimes beauty maps a timeline of the artist's career, but rather than unfolding chronologically, the exhibition is organized around significant recurring themes that have informed and shaped Hodges» practice, including materiality, temporality, and the threshold between light and dark.

As much as it is a significant challenge, I see artists playing a huge role in shaping dialogue around issues affecting our environment and political processes — and South Florida is at center stage of many of those debates.

PaceWildenstein is pleased to present a group exhibition that brings together works by some of the most significant artists of the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, paying homage to the square, an elemental form that has helped to define and shape the practice of modern and contemporary art.

Cy Twombly, a controversial American artist whose deceptively simple scrawls, smudges and sculptural shapes made him one of the most significant artistic figures of the past 50 years, died July 5 in Rome.

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

We will look at artists whose vision has been clearly shaped by an awareness that what we see is conditioned by who we are, and that our sexuality and personal histories play significant roles in the forming of our artistic statements.

In the mid-60s, the artist made a significant change with his Irregular Polygons series of paintings, which would mark the first works on asymmetrical shaped canvases.

The core of the 1,500 work collection spans 1960 to the present and contains key works by artists who have shaped the most significant art of the last 40 years, including Richard Artschwager, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Mark Tansey, and Cy Twombly.

RongRong (China) & inri (Japan) have shaped contemporary photography in Asia and are being recognised for both their careers as artists and their significant impact on Asian photography.

Perpetually inventive with new materials, shapes and ideas, never conceited, and always true to her feminist roots, Benglis continues to inspire other much younger artists and remains one of America's most significant living female artists.