Sentences with phrase «tableaux on»

Several small tableaux on the table tops are only visible in the mirror images projected from above the viewer while those at the very top remain an impossible prize.

The additive and subtractive process of painting allows me to invent characters to perform distilled tableaux on themes ranging from gender identity, power, sexuality, and relationships.

She freezes moments of loss or tragedy in symbolic tableaux on front lawns, well - groomed lakeshores, and front steps of suburban houses.

Not exact matches

In its incarnation as an art installation, mounted in Melbourne, Berlin and, most recently, New York City, Manifestoallowed viewers to wander freely among its dozen tableaux, each projected on its own screen.

You may start to wonder about the condition of these fresh - faced young actors made to crawl on all fours, leashed as dogs; to mime the experience of gagging on excrement; and to place themselves on display during the climactic torture tableaux, staked out in the dirt like gazelles at the waterhole.

But ultimately one comes away with the impression that far more thought has gone into creating impressive tableaux and evoking the patina of the past than working on a dynamic narrative or getting absorbing performances out of its young stars.

She is the founder of the Verdi Club, a ladies» music appreciation society whose fundraising spectacles always feature Florence at the center of their final tableaux vivants, sometimes bedecked with wings, gingerly lowered from the rafters on wires.

A series of pans and lateral tracks explores the Bishop household in studied tableaux, each isolated member of the family captured in their native habitat, while on a 45rpm record a disembodied voice guides listeners through the works of Benjamin Britten.

Butch as outcast is the better statement between he and Will Munny on how time transforms our heroes into villains — and A Perfect World speaks of loss in a series of tableaux ripped from the covers of all those fraying, yellowing editions of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.

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.

What seemed ingenious, a tad sacrilegious, on the printed page comes off as just plain dopey on the big screen, despite some wonderful Mathew Brady - inspired tableaux by veteran photog Caleb Deschanel («The Natural») and an amiably awkward performance by Benjamin Walker, who as Lincoln resembles a young Liam Neeson.

Veteran television director Salkow isn't very good, it's true, but DP Franco Delli Colli (Strip Nude For Your Killer), on one of his first films, provides beautiful, empty tableaux littered with car husks and burning pits fed with the corpses of the baddies Morgan stakes in the daytime.

As the end credits roll on «Calvary» there is a series of images of the spaces from the film devoid of people — empty tables and open tableaux.

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.

These instances link up to the repeated impenetrable tableaux that Sokurov lays out, keeping the camera on the outside of the action, adding to an environment where not knowing the context only adds to the experience.

As Atkinson subtly delineates all the pathways a life or a country might take, she also delivers a harrowing set piece on the Blitz as Ursula, working as a warden on a rescue team, encounters horrifying tableaux encompassing mangled bodies and whole families covered in ash, preserved just like the victims of Pompeii.

AP style prescribes «tableaux» for the plural of «tableau,» for instance, but it doesn't make a ruling on «portmanteau.»

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

The center of the cube contains an installation: a wood - paneled, upholstery - heavy living space based on the kind of rec rooms Thomas knew growing up in New Jersey in the»70s, an example of the tableaux she normally assembles in her studio as photographic sets.

The pictorial quality of her photographic tableaux correlates with their documentary value: about life on a ship, old vessels, or boat communities; about ways of seeing and ways of doing, yet they also invite us to experience the density and transparency of time.

Their working - class influence and the study of people in public social spaces became a strong influence on his figurative tableaux.

Concentrations 56: Stephen Lapthisophon — coffee, seasonal fruit, root vegetables, and «Selected Poems For his first U.S. museum show, the artist has created a series of tableaux incorporating anachronistic objects with more recent works on paper.

Exhibited together for the first time, these extraordinary paintings and arrangements (or tableaux) of objects reference and echo each other, as combined reflections on landscape, heritage, religion, history, life, and death.

1987 1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Reconstruct / Deconstruct, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Extreme Order: Cemin, Gober, Halley, Lemieux, Steinbach, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples (curated by Collins & Milazzo, brochure) Primary Structures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (curated by Robert Nickas) Avant - Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) Paint — Film, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (curated by Eugene Schwartz, catalogue) NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue) Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at The Equitable Center, New York Similia / Dissimilia, Columbia University Art Gallery, New York; travelled to Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Rainer Crone, catalogue) The Castle, documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (curated by Group Material) Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Berlin (catalogue) Anti-Baudrillard, White Columns, New York (curated by Group Material) Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (curated by Jerry Saltz, catalogue) Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue) The Beauty of Circumstance, Josh Baer Gallery, New York (catalogue) New York Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue) 1986 Admired Work, John Weber Gallery, New York Spiritual America, CEPA Galleries, Buffalo, NY (catalogue); travelled to Stavanger Faste Galleri, Stavanger, Norway (curated by Collins & Milazzo) New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Signs of Painting, Metro Pictures, New York, and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (catalogue) Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Collins & Milazzo) Political Geometries: on the Meaning of Alienation, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (catalogue) Post Pop, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (catalogue) Europa / Amerika, Ludwig Köln Museum, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (curated by David Joselit and Elisabeth Sussman, catalogue) Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Sonnabend Gallery, New York The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC Geometry Now, Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (El arte y su doble), Centre Cultural de la Funcacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid; travelled to Fundación Caja de Pensions, Barcelona (catalogue) Rooted Rhetoric, Castel Dell «Ovo, Naples (catalogue)

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.

This year's pilgrimage to Marfa on the occasion of Chinati's 25th Anniversary Weekend was well worth the effort, not only for the main events, but for the many other surprises, some in unconventional venues like Tableaux Parisiens, an exhibition of art from and about Paris in an old church called The Do Right Hall, Patrick Keesey at the Marfa Country Clinic, Valerie Arber at the Thunderbird Lodge, and Charles Mary Kubricht at The Marfa Book Company.

George Segal's tableaux are reflections on the individual and on consumer society.

Using ink on Mylar, Waugh reimagines an assortment of 19th - century tableaux, depicting quaint scenes of countryside estates and horse stables, as well as turn - of - the - century buildings on New York City streets.

For his debut at Blaffer Art Museum, the artist's first solo museum exhibition, Coolquitt will recombine 60 discrete sculptures and tableaux made between 2006 and 2011 into a site - specific installation which, in its singularity and temporariness, reflects on the condition of the gallery space as a codified place of encounter for people and works of art.

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.

Held in conjunction with the National Black Arts Festival, Mercy, Patience, and Destiny: The Women of Whitfield Lovell's Tableaux at the ACA Gallery of SCAD - Atlanta showcases charcoal portraits of African American women on found wood.

He went on to say, «What I love in Wes Anderson's movies is the feeling that there is a curtain that goes up before every shot — the way filmmakers like him conceive of their work as a tableaux.

A selection of works from the past two years goes on view in Zurich, including the first photograph from her 1995 four - part Five Revolutionary Seconds, in which interiors shot with a 360 - degree panoramic lens serve as the backdrop for tableaux fraught with psychological and sexual tension.

Arman's «poubelles» — glass cases filled with rubbish — and Spoerri's «tableaux - pièges» — vertical presentations of meal debris — have much in common with Casserole and Closed Mussels in their use of discarded materials and their focus on everyday objects and events.

The works in the exhibition range from paintings marked by «water stains» resembling the patina of vintage photographs to Foulkes» tableaux paintings, which are constructed on a massive scale, exhaustingly carved into with a sandblaster, collaged with plaster, paint, and found objects (such as two Coke cans, an American flag, and a tree branch in «Lost Horizon,» 1991).

Gregory Crewdson also creates fabricated tableaux but here the focus is less on a singular symbolic meaning and more on uncanny melodrama reminiscent of the films of David Lynch or Alfred Hitchcock.

She created tableaux using dolls and dollhouses, toy cowboys, dummies, and props, resulting in microcosms of commentary on domestic roles, situations and stereotypes.

Ahead of her first solo show at Brooklyn gallery Signal later this month, you'll find two of Kasey's voluptuous, Botero - like figures and dreamy, surrealist landscapes in Nicelle Beauchene's booth: a fleshy, reclining figure, Person Lying on a Salty Beach (2015; $ 10,000), that hangs in the booth's interior and fake plant at a restaurant (2015; $ 8,500), a mysterious tableaux where a bellybutton, a pierced ear, and the tips of fingers curiously peek between leaves, which calls fairgoers into her painted world.

The title of these two works is Orgon Doors and — while signalling a relationship to the work of Edward Kienholz, an American artist famous for his «70s Concept Tableaux Series — Cornaro's sculptures also bring to mind a geographical site in the South of France, Orgon, a village on the shores of the Rhône known for its Templar ruin.

Patrick Lakey's flatly lit blend of still life and (nude) self - portraiture, from a series in which he plays dozens of characters from the Marquis de Sade's writings, caught hold of me at The Happy Lion's booth; at Madrid's Travesia Cuatro, Gonzalo Lebrija's intimate communion between himself, wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, and the lone red canvas in a selection of On Kawara «Date Paintings» brought out the latent melancholy in any notation of time; and at Cherry and Martin, Elad Lassry's small - scale conceptual tableaux possessed at once a fierce confidence and an estranging oddness.

In 1972, he showed his Group Behavior Tableaux performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and went on to stage other tableaux performances at such venues as the Guggenheim, Documenta, and the Berkeley ArtTableaux performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and went on to stage other tableaux performances at such venues as the Guggenheim, Documenta, and the Berkeley Arttableaux performances at such venues as the Guggenheim, Documenta, and the Berkeley Art Museum.

He draws their portraits on wood panels and creates a narrative «tableaux» by combining the images with found objects.

Twenty sculptural tableaux are cast in bronze, each presented on an individual plinth and placed in a spiral formation that curves into the center of the gallery.

On the one hand a tribute to the lush environment, lively atmosphere and fundamentally recreational and replenishing character of public parks, Surveillance is also an acknowledgement and investigation of the proliferating presence of security cameras in public life; an attempt to poetically apply the aesthetic of surveillance in a manner that focuses the eyes and mind on the sensuous visual tableaux and fleeting moments of intimacy that make Madison Square Park such a treasured urban oasiOn the one hand a tribute to the lush environment, lively atmosphere and fundamentally recreational and replenishing character of public parks, Surveillance is also an acknowledgement and investigation of the proliferating presence of security cameras in public life; an attempt to poetically apply the aesthetic of surveillance in a manner that focuses the eyes and mind on the sensuous visual tableaux and fleeting moments of intimacy that make Madison Square Park such a treasured urban oasion the sensuous visual tableaux and fleeting moments of intimacy that make Madison Square Park such a treasured urban oasis.

Published on the occasion of an important retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, this book reproduces in more than 300 illustrations a selection of works ranging from intimate collages to life - size tableaux made between 1954 and 1994.

Mary Addision Hackett blogs about several painting exhibitions currently on view in Indianapolis including: Kyle Ragsdale: Tableaux at the Harrison Art Center (through November 30), Elise Schweitzer: Centaurs and Belly Dancers at Gallery 924 (through November 30), Rachel Ritchford: Future Days at Mt. Comfort Gallery and Carla Knopp's exhibition Kinkade Meets Turner Paints Sci - fi With Fanbrush at Dewclaw.

In an on - going investigation of the social landscape, Arden's works have explored the aesthetic economies particular to the re-presentation of archival photographs, serial documentation as well as the large - scale photographic tableaux.

Mr. Burton entered art making by way of performance art, an important part of the early 70's art scene, using furniture found on the street for stark tableaux inhabited by silent, slow - moving actors.

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.

On view from November 10 through March 7, 2010, the exhibition features 21 dramatic paintings, photographic series, films and sculptural tableaux, including his famous headless mannequins that portray the complexities of cultural identity.