Through their engagement with
specific architectural forms, the works in the exhibition offer insights into distinct cultural contexts, histories and social struggles.
Not exact matches
Her sculptural works are often site -
specific, making use of
architectural space and working in tandem with abstract wall drawings to
form the installations as a whole.
Similarly, Sheila Hicks broke ground with a studio practice that merged painting, drawing, sculpture and the woven
form with
architectural - scaled, site -
specific installations.
At the centre of the exhibition will be a site -
specific work, which will take the
form of a giant landscape unfolding within the South Wing of the museum and transfiguring its
architectural experience.
Warsaw - based Monika Sosnowska builds
architectural forms in response to
specific spaces, then manipulates them, collapsing, deflating, and squeezing the work into alternate settings.
This work continues Thomasos» interest In making paintings that evoke architecture, and / or work in conjunction with a
specific architectural setting, to give visual
form to the representation -LSB-...]
This work continues Thomasos» interest In making paintings that evoke architecture, and / or work in conjunction with a
specific architectural setting, to give visual
form to the representation of African American culture and history.
Document presents new context -
specific works from Alice Konitz, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, and Sterling Lawrence; three artists who each reproduce objects, either through de-contextualization or re-presenting
forms of
architectural displacement.
For Please Touch the Art, the artist has installed three
forms of social sculptures in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Appearing Rooms, a systematically shifting
architectural space
formed by jets of water; Mirror Labyrinth NY, a site -
specific installation of mirror - polished stainless steel that reflects and distorts the distinctive skyline of lower Manhattan; and sixteen bright red Modified Social Benches, alterations upon the familiar outdoor park bench, which actively engage visitors» perceptions of public space with their curious curves and undulations.
A groundbreaking
architectural intervention by artist Sarah Oppenheimer, which will link the museum's modern and contemporary collections through meticulously crafted sculptural
forms placed in the floor, ceiling, and walls; Recent contemporary acquisitions, including A Man Screaming is Not a Dancing Bear by the artist collaborative Allora & Calzadilla, Untitled (bicycle shower) by Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Live Ball by Nari Ward, as well as works by Guyton \ Walker, Los Carpinteros, Elad Lassry, and Susan Philipsz; An exhibition of eight large - scale color photographs by South African artist Zwelethu Mthethwa, inaugurating the wing's project space for changing exhibitions; An exhibition of outstanding drawings by artists including Lee Bontecou, Philip Guston, and James Rosenquist from the BMA's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection, presented in the museum's new dedicated gallery for prints, drawings, and photographs; A new site -
specific work by acclaimed Baltimore street artist Gaia.