Sentences with phrase «such unconventional works»

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It's also that he had the guts to actually implement such a plan that was both unconventional and fraught with huge potential downsides if it didn't work.

The most fun I had working out was when I did it in my backyard using unconventional training exercises such as sled pulls and farmers walks.

The filmmakers embrace the «moment» women are currently enjoying in pop culture: Thanks to female - centric works such as last year's «Bridesmaids» and this year's HBO series «Girls,» female characters can be seen confronting intimacy issues in sometimes startling ways and unconventional protagonists are getting screen time.

She helps other people travel full - time in a financially sustainable way through her website, books (such as How to Get Free Accommodation Around the World and Working on the Road: The Unconventional Guide to Full - Time Freedom.

His Cardboards 1971 - 2 — a wry comment on the forces of globalisation — and his sumptuous fabric works such as the Jammers 1975 - 6 — inspired by his visit to the Indian textile centre of Ahmedabad — demonstrate his skilful play with unconventional materials.

Young artists such as Donald Judd, Robert Morris and Dan Flavin were drawn to these Modernist movements, eventually abandoning painting in favor of unconventional installation - based works that utilized clean lines and modular forms.

LAND supports dynamic and unconventional artistic practices using a tripartite approach: Commissioning public projects of site - and situation - specific works with national and international contemporary artists Collaborating with a variety of institutions and organizations, such as universities, museums, and theaters as well as other types of spaces, industries, and entities Offering additional programs such as performances, workshops, residencies, discussions, and publications LAND is an ongoing endeavor with three primary types of annual programming: LAND 1.0 projects are large - scale, multi-artist, multi-site exhibitions and single - site group exhibitions, LAND 2.0 projects feature a new commission by a single mid-career or established artist, and LAND 3.0 projects feature new work by lesser known or emerging artists

While portraiture is a traditional, time - honoured genre, this exhibition offers a new perspective by bringing together iconic portrait paintings by artists such as Max Beckmann, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach with more unconventional works by artists such as Lara Favaretto and John Bock.

Nelson often incorporates unconventional materials, such as cheesecloth, modeling paste, or strips of painted fabric or painted string to the work to add textural elements to her paintings.

Perhaps the most inventive work was produced by the so - called Light and Space group, whose members, including James Turrell, John McCracken, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman and Robert Irwin, embraced unconventional materials such as plastic and fluorescent lights.

This is an artist with a rich technical vocabulary, unique vision and unsurpassed skill, who is just as comfortable working with unconventional materials such as glass tableware, thousands of dice stacked together to form fluid overlapping folds, found objects, and plastics, as he is with the more accepted media, such as perforated steel, wood or bronze.

When his pieces were initially exhibited by Castelli Gallery in the 1960s, Sonnier set a precedent for abandoning the rules of traditional sculpture, forgoing the pedestal to create wall - based works and trading traditional media such as bronze and marble for unconventional and psychologically loaded materials, such as cloth and latex.

Friedman is well known for works that make unconventional use of ordinary materials and that play with notions of perception, logic, and humor, often spurring basic questions such as «what is it?»

Performances and fictionalized, self - referential mythologies played a large role in their work — the group staged beauty pageants, boutiques, television talk shows, trade fair pavilions, and more, and their work often took on unconventional forms of media such as prints, magazines, posters, crests, and postcards.

Using VHS magnetic tape and other unconventional materials, Kempinas crafts dynamic works that are activated by natural phenomena such as light and the circulation of air.

Gilliam's style was further shaped by the cultural and social experiences of African Americans in the 1960s; his bold and unconventional works reflect the influence of jazz icons such as Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

Opening this week at Gagosian Gallery's Madison Avenue location, «Custum - Built Intrigue: Drawings 1974 — 1984» exhibits a collection of drawings made in the middle of Ruscha's career, when his word works matured following the artist's exploration of language and experimentation with unconventional pigmentation — such as syrup and gunpowder.

Using unconventional means of interruption, such as shotgun blasts, bullet holes and spray paint, Burroughs charged his work with the same rebellion and wit found in his novels.

Lebanese artist Dala Nasser employs unconventional materials such as liquid latex, brick pigment and dirt collected off the floor, on «grounds» including tarpaulin and trauma blankets to create a body of work that, possessing an intricate physicality, speaks to the contemporary moment.

As such, Rama continued to exist in her own bubble outside of the popular sphere, and yet her late 1960s and early 1970s works, with their use of unconventional art materials and craft forms, can certainly be seen through the lens of the movement.

Drawing inspiration from the materials she found in an abandoned textile factory in Kettwig, she made her first three - dimensional artworks, and when she returned to New York she devoted herself exclusively to sculpture, creating fragile works in unconventional materials such as polyester, fiberglass and latex.

Drawing on unconventional means of transformation, such as alchemy and magic, as a way to examine the metaphysical changes that occur when materials are used to conceptualize complex ideas, Now You See It — which includes work by Walead Beshty, Alexandra Bircken, Ceal Floyer, Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Wade Guyton, Wolfgang Laib, Robert Morris, William O'Brien, Mitzi Pederson, Dieter Roth, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Anna Sew Hoy, Gedi Sibony, Rudolf Stingel, Lawrence Weiner, Jennifer West and Erwin Wurm — proffers the notion that visual recognition alone is insufficient to determine an object's materiality.

Prager draws inspiration from the cinematic work of Alfred Hitchcock and Luis Buñuel and the art of such photographers as William Eggleston or Enrique Metinides, but also frequently cites the major influence her unconventional education has had on her own artistic practice, which combines the use of bold colors, unexpected angles and dramatic lighting.

It has displayed works by many notable artists, and has featured unconventional works such as a 1976 exhibit of live body builders, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualised experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research - intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualized experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.