Sentences with phrase «skin of acrylic paint»

A monumental piece formed by thousands of tiny tiles sliced from a thick skin of acrylic paint, the work's surface involved more building than painting.

Not exact matches

From those microcosms, which originated in her studio space, themes of breakdown, contamination and corruption emerge as well, resulting in a range of abstract and minimalist compositions across plywood and acrylic paint skins.

Often integrating mixed media materials into her large - scale acrylic - on - canvas paintings, Parsons pushes the formal aspects of her practice just enough to let the luxuriant palette and seemingly, but not simply, whimsical content hold center stage, while proving that she has true skin in the game.

To produce the stratified surface of these paintings, Johnson drips layers of acrylic paint onto freezer paper and allows them to dry and form a skin — a flexible, plastic - like puck of pigments that she attaches to the paintings with glazing medium for added texture and embellishment.

Sculptures such as Inside - Outside (1970) appear to be a camel skeleton, but closer examination reveals a formidable construction of steel, wax, marble dust, acrylic, fiberglass, animal skin, and oil paint.

Against backgrounds painted in broad swaths of acrylic interspersed with highly - ornamented elements and outlined in charcoal, the detailed worlds of these smaller, printed panes create a heavily - designed pattern on the skin and floor of the central scene depicted.

Whitten's poetic and physically compelling compositions reinvent the medium of painting time and again — from his series of small «ghost» paintings of the 1960s, his smeared test slabs and dragged canvases of the 1970s, and his collaged acrylic «skins» of the 1980s to his more recent tessellated constructions of paint tiles.

Whatever it is, if drawing presents a certain window into the artist's brain, then the exhibition «Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing,» which opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem on Thursday, will serve as a trip inside the mind's eye of an artist whose practice has included everything from multimedia paintings comprised of acrylic and collaged felt to site - specific installations and even a ballet — one that explodes off the page and directly onto the gallery walls.

Andrew Sutherland composes his acrylic paintings within a large folded trash bag; Angel Otero bunches up paint - soaked «oil skins» around an armature to resemble a ruched and rumbled sack of a painting.