Sentences with phrase «significant artworks in»

By exhibiting significant artworks in its storefront location at the edge of Taksim Square in Istanbul, collectorspace seeks to engage the general public on issues that motivate contemporary artists while creating reference points for next generations of collectors regarding their role in supporting knowledge production.

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Impressed by the artwork of psychiatric patients, prisoners and children, he amassed a significant collection of such work and invented the influential term art brut — «rough art», often paraphrased in English as «outsider art» — to describe it.

Significant Otherness, a benefit for the Spay Neuter Project of Los Angeles (SNPLA), explores the unique bond between animals and humans through artwork generously donated by eight contemporary artists for a gallery exhibition at Angels Gate Cultural Center and available for sale in this online auction.

Clearly, the team do not manage to deliver an artwork of comparable magnitude to Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, which is their chief inspiration, but to even have chosen this as an ambition in a commercial game project in 2001 — when rivals are choosing The Godfather and Aliens as their template because these are, quite frankly, supremely easy influences to synthesise into a string of violent episodes, Silent Hill 2's decision to construct a game in which violence can (depending on the player's proclivities) be a tangential part of the experience is significant.

The artworks and installations shown have each immersed audiences in an impactful and significant experiential context — monumental in scale, discipline, and material.

What seems more significant to both is the emotional investment we make in artworks, how they substitute for other things, how dependent they are on outside structures for their worth.

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.

Personal Choice will therefore examine collecting on two levels: as a subjective phenomenon based on the connection between the owner and the artwork; and as a social gesture, where the personal commitment of building a private collection makes a significant contribution to public life now or in the future.

«Souls Grown Deep: African - American Vernacular Art of the South,» a groundbreaking exhibition of over 450 artworks by some 30 contemporary artists, highlighting a significant artistic tradition that has risen in concert with the Civil Rights Movement.

The story of SoHo — which was transformed from a bohemian artist's enclave to one of the most expensive zip codes in the country — has remained significant not only because of the now - iconic artworks it helped produce: in just a few decades, the area has become a retail and restaurant capital with upscale homes and hotels.

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.

Among the significant artwork included in the exhibition are Porter's 1970s photographs alluding to space and the body, and a series of prints referencing surrealist René Magritte that interrogate image, representation and simulacra.

Rauschenberg first tried erasing his own drawings but ultimately decided that in order for the experiment to succeed he had to begin with an artwork that was undeniably significant in its own right.

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.

MR: The Dinner Party is one of the most significant artworks of the 20th century — in scale, content, and influence.

Yet perhaps the most compelling story to be told about the artwork centers on the material life of the object itself, a narrative that includes Rauschenberg tussling with the implications of his own evolving artistic strategies in a significant reworking of the piece around 1955.

Although Erling Kagge purchased his first artwork 32 years ago, it is mainly in the course of the past 15 years that his art collection has taken form, expanded and become one of Norway's most significant private collections of international contemporary art.

This revised presentation is organized by Robert Scalise, Assistant Director for Exhibitions and Collections at the UB Art Galleries in collaboration with The Art Students League of New York, and will include additional artwork from the university's significant collection and other lenders.

Also in significant artworks from 2014: Godard's 3D film «Goodbye to Language» is screening at BAM.

Included in the exhibition are newly commissioned artworks by Nathan Carter, Marlo Pascual, David Thorpe, and Garth Weiser, plus significant earlier pieces of Henning Bohl, Matthew Brannon, Jeff Burton, Jason Dodge, Trisha Donnelly, Geoffrey Farmer, Liam Gillick, Annika von Hausswolff, Brain Jungen, Jonathan Monk, Diego Perrone, Julia Schmidt, Simon Starling, Gabriel Vormstein and Johannes Wohnseifer.

The artwork displayed in the silent auction was impeccably curated and brought significant attention to the caliber of artists that Art League supports.»

Her artworks are among the most significant in British art history, alongside those of Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Rachel Whiteread.

This ambitious restoration project proposes to renew and celebrate this historic artwork in what is arguably one of Ireland's most historically significant coastal towns.

Like the multi-part octopus piece by Joakim Ojanen pictured above, each work in CLAY TODAY will be a significant ceramic artwork, whether sculpture, wall work or even claymation video.

Besides her artwork, Piper made a significant scientific contribution to contemporary philosophy, and frequently is listed as «singular case» in feminist history after she became the first woman as African - American philosophy professor to receive academic tenure in the United States in 1991.

Documents relating to John Biggers» work as an artist and arts advocate include planning and promotional material from a number of public exhibitions of Biggers» work as well as handwritten research notes on African art; financial documents about loans and sales of his work; artwork and sketches by Biggers and other artists; as well as a significant amount of material from Biggers» tenure as the head of the Art Department at Texas Southern University in Houston.

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But if you're able to snag a few moments at these stations, you'll see the objects on view in the aesthetic and cultural context of significant artworks, monuments, and movements: Marcel Duchamp's 1913 readymade Roue de bicyclette [Bicycle Wheel]; the Crystal Palace at the 1851 World's Fair; Pop Art's embrace of mass - media messaging.

«As museums with a shared teaching mission and a commitment to broaden our collective holdings in new media, we saw a unique opportunity to join forces to acquire significant artworks,» said Sharon Corwin, the Carolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator of the Colby College Museum of Art.

Frieze New York is a vital platform to encounter today's most significant artists and artworks from around the world, including main section solo exhibitions featuring: Lorna Simpson, presenting new paintings and sculptures in her first ever project with Hauser & Wirth (New York); the celebrated American painter John Currin with Gagosian Gallery (New York); Anri Sala, presenting Bridges in the Doldrums (2016) with Marian Goodman Gallery (New York), ahead of the artist's participation in the Venice Biennale; Keith Sonnier at Pace (New York), bringing together his pioneering neon sculptures with two new series of works; Tala Madani with David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles), coinciding with the artist's presentation in the Whitney Biennial; and Kevin Beasley showing with Casey Kaplan (New York).

BAM Fest attendees love spending a Sunday afternoon sipping in the sun, engaging with artists, and exploring significant artworks while listening to booty - shakin» music.

Equally significant was her «Rent Series,» a vintage collection of artwork beginning in the 1980s, which was inspired by a collection of her late father's rent receipts kept in memory of his lifelong efforts to provide housing for their family.

Presented in the context of the Oaxacan cultural festival Puntos de Encuentro (Meeting Points), the exhibition brings together significant groups of artworks in many media and establishes unexpected relationships among the works and the artists.

Light and Space Art, one of the few significant movements to originate in Southern California, conflates the forms of Minimalism with the use of light as the actual medium of the artwork.

Predominantly working with painting, drawing, print and installation, Stephen Smith's work is complemented by historically significant artworks, one in each space, by Frank Auerbach, Elisabeth Frink, Geoffrey Clarke, John Tunnard, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron and Lynn Chadwick borrowed from The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art.

Predominantly working with painting, drawing, print and installation, Stephen Smith's work is complemented by historically significant artworks, one in each space, by Frank Auerbach, Elisabeth Frink, Geoffrey Clarke, John Tunnard, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron and Lynn Chadwick.

The Museum created the $ 1 million Fund in its Centennial year, 2014, with monies restricted to purchasing works of art and sought artworks that would make a significant impact on audiences, raise the Museum's profile in the realm of contemporary art, and complement its historical collections, thus setting the Museum on a rising trajectory at the start of a new century.

Chicago, ILL. - September 29, 2015 - Visitors to EXPO Chicago 2015, the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art presenting artwork from 140 leading galleries from around the world that drew thousands to Chicago's Navy Pier earlier this month, had a rare opportunity to view a selection of significant modern and contemporary art by 10 women artists whose work is in the Union League Club of Chicago's private art collection.

IN CHOOSING THE LIST OF 25 significant artworks spanning 1991 - 2015, Frieze editors state in the magazine that they «agreed on a group of artworks from around the world that reflect something important about the time in which they were made, whose influence has grown over the years and which still feel urgent, fresh and relevant today.&raquIN CHOOSING THE LIST OF 25 significant artworks spanning 1991 - 2015, Frieze editors state in the magazine that they «agreed on a group of artworks from around the world that reflect something important about the time in which they were made, whose influence has grown over the years and which still feel urgent, fresh and relevant today.&raquin the magazine that they «agreed on a group of artworks from around the world that reflect something important about the time in which they were made, whose influence has grown over the years and which still feel urgent, fresh and relevant today.&raquin which they were made, whose influence has grown over the years and which still feel urgent, fresh and relevant today.»

Cecily Brown will reveal the thinking behind her reinterpretations of traditional imagery and subject matter with Nicholas Penny (Director of National Gallery, London); Luc Tuymans will give an insight into the decisions he makes in his depictions of significant moments in history with Dominique de Font - Réaulx (Senior Curator at Museé de Louvre, Paris); and Glenn Brown will discuss his appropriation of historical artwork with Bice Curiger (Curator at Kunsthaus Zürich and Editor - in - Chief, Parkett).

In 2013, the Daimler Art Collection began adding a significant new aspect to its international profile with the acquisition of more than 40 artworks by about 20 Chinese artists.

This new catalogue takes an in - depth look at the Dallas Museum of Art's internationally significant collection of artworks from Island Southeast Asia, which has brought it much acclaim over the past 30 years.

Considered to be some of the most significant and elaborate artworks of the 1990s, the films were made out of sequence (CREMASTER 4 in 1994, CREMASTER 1 in 1995, followed by 5, 2, and finally CREMASTER 3 in 2002) and the content of each touches on biological models, mythological and historical paradigms, and Barney's unique symbology.

The two cornerstones of its collection are the works dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, on one side, and artworks from the 19th century to the 21st, on the other, with the ensemble of the latter making it one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in Europe.

Artworks, including significant site - specific commissions in new and unexpected venues for art, will be curated to enable exploration of the complex history of the region.

The work is the latest in a significant series of sculptures in which Gander reimagines Edgar Degas» famous work The Little Fourteen - Year - Old Dancer (1880 - 81) in different scenarios and stages in life, where the ballerina escapes her plinth and is freed from her limitations as an artwork.

Students explored how Modern artist sought to address in their artwork the significant social, urban and industrial changes that they experience in their daily lives by seeing works of art in first - hand experiences.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, they presented ground - breaking conceptual, installation, and performance artworks — intensely creative projects that reflected a confluence at Pomona College of art faculty, curators, visiting artists, and students who would go on to make significant contributions to contemporary art history.

Her artwork has received significant critical attention, and has been reviewed in the New York Times, Time Out Delhi, NOW Magazine, National Post, Hamilton Spectator, Asian Art News, World Sculpture News, Art India, Vancouver Sun, Art Asia Pacific, New Art Examiner, FUSE Magazine, and other publications.

Saatchi has made a number of very significant donations of top contemporary artworks to numerous institutions, such as the Arts Council of Great Britain Collection (which lends works to museums and galleries around the country), the National Arts Collection Fund, and the Paintings in Hospitals program.