Sentences with phrase «social abstraction»

Such economic abstraction is primarily addressed in art as a subject or theme, but in Deleuze and Guattari's notion of art as abstract machine possibilities emerge for art's role in the construction of a new kind of social reality.In more recent art a third strand emerges: a form of social abstraction centred on the strategy of withdrawal.

For the pilot semester beginning October 3, and its theme of «New Social Abstractions,» leading artists - theorists Hito Steyerl, Simon Denny, Evan Calder Williams, and writer Ana Teixeira Pinto will lead an exploration into new levels of complexity that organize our modern world and discuss new kinds of artistic production that this development may demand

David Huffman continues his ongoing investigation into social abstraction by repeating a kneeling figure of Colin Kaepernick across wood panel, recalling how the Black Panther logo itself was also urgently replicated.

Current social abstractions provoke new ways of understanding and describing our world and our culture.

Christopher Bedford, Rose Art Museum director and curator of Mark Bradford's 2010 exhibition, has described this marriage of pure visuality with social concerns as social abstraction, wherein «image is fused with context.»

In contrast to Abstract Expressionism, which was largely about exploring one's subconscious, and Minimalism, which posits a physical object's thingness as content, social abstraction derives content from the world and is especially informed by symbolic material culture.

Social abstraction implies stepping aside, a movement away from the mainstream, suggesting the possibilities for art to manoeuvre within self - organized, withdrawn initiatives in the field of cultural production.

Linking writing on formal, economic and social abstraction through the work of artists and curators, Lind has produced an important book that suggests an alternative to muted aesthetic politics.»

Composed of found media, including merchant posters from the Leimert Park neighborhood surrounding his studio, Bradford's mixed - media collages are an exercise in social abstraction.

A distinct form of Social Abstraction is about to be made visible for everyone to appreciate from schoolchildren to undergraduates, academics to artists.»

It has to exist somewhere out there; go find it» — Mark Bradford Spanning almost three metres in width, Bear Running from the Shotgun is a monumental example of Mark Bradford's groundbreaking «social abstraction».

You often talk about «social abstraction» as compared to the Abstract Expressionists — where those painters turned inward, you turn outward.

Bradford likes to call his art «social abstraction».

The resultant fusion of abstract painting and social awareness, termed «social abstraction» by the artist, has forged a fresh, invigorated space for an updated Abstract Expressionism.

Bradford's monumental painting My Grandmother Felt the Color, 2016, is currently on view at the BMA in a gallery dedicated to social abstraction, alongside other artists who have turned to abstract imagery to convey the humanity, complexity, and ongoing impact of specific cultural experiences, such as Jack Whitten and Ross Bleckner.

This anthology reconsiders crucial aspects of abstraction's resurgence in contemporary art, exploring formal abstraction, economic abstraction and social abstraction.

For his first New York show with Hauser & Wirth, Mark Bradford is presenting a slew of new canvases and video works that reflect his ongoing engagement with what he calls «social abstraction» — abstract art that points towards social and political realities without descending into didacticism.

Exemplifying Bradford's «social abstraction,» Helter Skelter I is a masterpiece that references a chilling period in Los Angeles history — cult leader Charles Manson's malevolent obsession with inciting a race war in the late 1960s, which he called «Helter Skelter,»» Joanne Heyler, founding director and chief curator of The Broad, said in a statement.

I think in that moment I understood that Social Abstraction had been born.

ST: Does your plan acknowledge the US Pavilion's past representation of artists from the museum's collections, and how do you see Mark Bradford's form of social abstraction to fall in the trajectory of Abstract Expressionism?

In Tomkins's recent profile, Bradford describes his work as «social abstraction» — abstract art «with a social or political context clinging to the edges.»

Sagebrush Gulch features work that tracks the simplicity of social abstraction and cognitive association within minimal form, color and structure.

I'm wondering if your work is in line with his in some way, or if you ascribe to his idea of «social abstraction» — abstract art that has a social and political tinge?

Bradford describes his practice as «social abstraction,» a contradiction in terms: works absent of human figures that instead depict he crisis of the human condition.

In a previous interview with BmoreArt, Bedford stated that social abstraction, and painting by black artists in particular, is a high priority for the BMA.

This piece, along with an even larger work by Jack Whitten, sits prominently in the BMA's contemporary wing in a gallery newly devoted to social abstraction — work that builds upon established trends but that offers social commentary in its content, materials, and subject matter.

This anthology reconsiders crucial aspects of abstraction's resurgence in contemporary art, exploring three equally significant modes or strategies explored in current practice: formal abstraction, economic abstraction and social abstraction.

The going name for it, «Social Abstraction» (coined by Mark Bradford), describes a politically conscious subset of artists who use art as a vehicle to express their investment in varying concerns.