Sentences with phrase «size tableaux»

Published on the occasion of an important retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, this book reproduces in more than 300 illustrations a selection of works ranging from intimate collages to life - size tableaux made between 1954 and 1994.

She is best known for her room - size tableaux of black cut - paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America's racial and gender tensions.

Hanson's early works comprised life - sized tableaux — depicting soldiers killed in action, police brutality and homeless people — that confront the viewer with devastating truths.

Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room - sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth - century art of cut - paper silhouettes.

Following the enthusiastic public response to Balloon Flower (Blue), the large mirror - polished stainless steel sculpture installed in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin in 1999, the Deutsche Guggenheim commissioned the first seven of the Easyfun - Ethereal paintings: mural - sized tableaux that combine cut - out photographs of packaged foods, fragments of faces, limbs, and hair, amusement park scenes, and paradisiacal landscapes into images of convulsive beauty.

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He pioneered a new technique, creating life - sized sculptures from plaster — using his family and friends as living molds — often setting figures in tableaux with found objects.

Curated by Brussels - based collective Bunk Club, the installation consisted of four new figurative wall reliefs, cast from acrylic - modified gypsum and arranged in a narrative tableaux, reading across the gallery as a life - size frieze.

Yinka Shonibare MBE: Magic Ladders By Judith F. Dolkart (author), Derek Gillman (foreword) Yinka Shonibare MBE (b. 1962), a British artist of Nigerian descent, is best known for his dramatic tableaux of life - size, headless mannequins, gorgeously dressed in eighteenth - and nineteenth - century costumes made from elaborately patterned textiles popular in Africa.

Yinka Shonibare MBE (b. 1962), a British artist of Nigerian descent, is best known for his dramatic tableaux of life - size, headless mannequins, gorgeously dressed in eighteenth - and nineteenth - century costumes made from elaborately patterned textiles popular in Africa.

Opening reception: Saturday, October 20th, 6 — 8 pm James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo gallery exhibition by Dutch artist, Folkert de Jong, who reinvents monuments and classical figurative sculpture by combining fictional and factual histories into life - sized sculptural tableaux.