Sentences with phrase «tableaux of»

Torres» detailed works are vivid and bursting with life down to the texture of wrinkles and pores and yet they veer from the tromp l'oeil realism of Duane Hanson or the monochromatic tableaux of George Segal.

The scene includes a second, crudely painted chair, recalling Franz West's capricious lifestyle tableaux of collaged and painted subjects.

In an exemplary work first presented at his 1987 solo show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Kelley laid down tattered blankets upon which he arranged disconcerting tableaux of stuffed animals, the type that are ubiquitous at thrift - stores and flea - markets.

On the «stage» of Schaulager they've created an unexpected tableaux of sculptures, objects, and drawings.

For his third exhibition at the gallery, Paul Swenbeck presents Dor and Oranor, comprised of two sculptural tableaux of a prehistoric drama.

This month, his dreamy tableaux of demons, demigods, and dandies travel to the Brooklyn Museum, as part of «Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection,» a survey of the first ten years of the artist's career.

The notion of performance appears here in a range of guises, from the camp spectacle and subversive humor of 1980s works by General Idea and Charles Atlas, to the formal tableaux of James Coleman's slide projection and Craigie Horsfield's masterful tapestry.

His first solo show in New York, Leisure Studies, pushes beyond the aristocratic tableaux of Dixon's earlier paintings to depict pure action.

Set atop plinths or stacked to mimic pedestals in deliberate disarray, these everyday objects the works come to resemble tableaux of contemporary society.

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.

Organized in conjunction with Art After Dark Death on October 28, this special two - week exhibition is a visual complement to its dark tableaux of programming.

Güres, who lives and works between Vienna and Istanbul, produces theatrical tableaux of women, moving between performance and the everyday.

The haunting desert tableaux of MICHAEL ASHKIN, which have been making their presence felt in group shows over the last year, also feature small instantly recognizable forms surrounded by expanses of space.

Zanzibar - born, Preston - based Himid tackles attitudes to race, from slavery to the present day, through her tableaux of wooden figures and painted - over pottery.

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.

His tableaux of headless mannequins costumed in this fabric evoke themes of history and its legacy for future generations.

«His abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty,» Hart said.

His ominous tableaux of childlike figures lost in ceramic landscapes combine a sweet nostalgia for youth with an almost masochistic relish for history's decay.

The tableaux of the new works on view include the macabre and fractured figures the artists are known for, mounted to inky black color fields with baroque furniture centerpieces.

Marisol also makes recreations of iconic news images and tableaux of families, sometimes her own, crafting sculptural scenes from carved stone, neon, Astroturf, and plywood.

For his first exhibition, at Artists Space in Manhattan in 1975, he exhibited a tableaux of furniture without the actors and from there moved on to fabricating his own designs.

In the humorous and critical tableaux of She Could Have Been a Cowboy, Norwegian artist Anja Niemi envisions herself as a character submersing herself in the fantasy of the American Southwest.

At their more hectic moments, the tableaux of Kienholz seem to approach, in rather lurid - spectral fashion, a catalogue of horrors.

William Daniels» small - scale canvases are derived from torn paper tableaux of famous historical paintings.

How artists chose to portray Coney Island over a 150 years period — in tableaux of wonder and menace, hope and despair, dreams and nightmares — mirrored the aspirations and disappointments of the era.

Over time, Kara Walker became essentially appreciated for her large - scale tableaux of collaged silhouettes set amidst black and white pastoral landscapes, packed with brutal and harrowing imagery illustrating the origins of slavery in the South.

With her cut - out tableaux of funny, engaging figures, the liveliness of her line and her social commentaries, Himid has made two exceptionally popular UK shows in recent months, as well as in a major exhibition of radical black art from the 1980s at Nottingham Contemporary.

The exhibition will include Yinka Shonibare MBE's «The Crowning» 2007, an elaborate sculptural tableaux of two lovers in a garden setting inspired by a suite of paintings by Jean - Honoré Fragonard.

Mark Innerst conjured tiny picnic parties with a few flecks of paint in the midst of the Great Lawn in Central Park in brilliant if small tableaux of anonymous urban life.

Upon closer inspection, however, Walker's allegorical tableaux of the antebellum South reveal grimly absurd scenarios in which stereotypical plantation figures engage in macabre, violent, sexual, and scatological interactions.

This exhibition brings together the large - scale tableaux of three American artists from different generations, each with a different perspective on black culture and its representation.

These tableaux of rubble also serve as documents of reconstruction, and draw upon the artist's own experience as a youth of the ravaged Balkans in the 1990s.

Mokgosi tackles different social injustice issue through his contemporary history paintings showing various tableaux of life in South Africa.

Mark Bradford's abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty.

Notable exhibitions include his large - scale overlapping line drawings of nudes for his series Water Paintings shown at the 1999 Venice Biennale, and his 2006 solo show Cave Paintings at White Cube, which featured marble tableaux of collaged stones set together like tectonic plates.

His commanding portraits and tableaux of recent years combine familiar representational forms, such as the portrait of the artist or the academic life - drawing class, with political references that frame deeply probing historical narratives.

Bridging three generations and shaped by distinctive historic events, the large - scale tableaux of Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, and Mickalene Thomas open compelling perspectives on Black culture and representation in an ever changing social and political landscape.

The second floor of «Storage Memory» takes a more spectral shift, with the artist engaging intimate spaces to produce tableaux of darkness.

In this peculiar formation, Kim and Mader played out a tableaux of awkward social situations, thematising questions of inclusion and exclusion.

With nearly 100 color reproductions of these works, this volume provides an overview of Drew's four - decade career, from the dramatic sculptures and installations of the 1980s and the enormous wall tableaux of the 1990s to the more fragile paper casts of the past decade.

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.

Their tableaux of twentieth - century ruin take on everything from the fast - food industry to our culture's preoccupation with war and violence.

Motel Mexicola is a fun and colourful choice, with its theatrical tableaux of tequila bottles, candles and photographs.

Canoeists are often mesmerised by the enchanting river, along the banks of which the vegetation gently caresses the still dark waters, and at times gentle breezes ruffle the surface creating a moving tableaux of shimmering silver that scurry across the surface.

Stunning tableaux of green bamboo groves, farmlands grazed by water buffalos and emerald hills rising into misty mountains unfold along the Yangtze's dramatic Three Gorges in China, the Mekong in Cambodia and Vietnam, and Myanmar's fabled Irrawaddy.

Perhaps more than by the text, readers will be fascinated by the stone - collage illustrations created by Syrian artist Badr, who arranges expressive tableaux of people formed entirely of rocks and pebbles.

References to the home movies of Nikita's son Sergei provide evocative imagery as counterpoint to the staid tableaux of official pomp.

That failure of nerve is a shame, because in all the swooning close - ups of the Casters» spinning records during their early domestic reverie, and in all the eerie tableaux of Will 2.0 hovering over his wife's bed, smiling placidly on several reflective screens as he remotely measures her blood pressure, one senses that Pfister would rather be making his own modest riff on David Cronenberg's romantic melodrama The Fly.

by Walter Chaw The title refers to a New York Museum of Natural History diorama called «Clash of the Titans» that proposes what a tussle between a sperm whale and a giant squid would look like — and it functions as the final, stirring tableaux of a 16 mm film self - consciously shot in the manner of early Jim Jarmusch or Spike Lee joints.

Based on Victor Hugo's hefty classic, and given an operetta treatment that can be soaring and glorious - or, when the lyrics slip into anachronistic vernacular, wincingly lame - this big - budget movie musical summons the mighty forces of CGI to create vast tableaux of castles and monasteries, shipyards and slums, France in the tumultuous first half of the 19th century.