Sentences with word «tarpaper»

Many of the families of this village live in tarpaper shacks and slept on a dirt floor.
Drawing on the rawness of the urban environment, McCloud works on tarpaper instead of canvas, enveloping it in layers of liquid tar, foil and aluminum roof coating.
It is not uncommon to go into some of the poorest and most destitute communities around the world, where many of the people live in cardboard and tarpaper shacks and have barely enough food to live on, and in the middle of this community, find a large, grandly constructed church building with towering steeples, intricate stained glass, beautiful woodwork, and gorgeous hand - painted murals.
Taking up most of the galleries front room it was made with the assistance of friends at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and consisted of 120 rolls of tarpaper that was ripped up and placed on the floor.
Their dreams are shattered when, months after their wedding, they find themselves held captive, first in racetrack horse stables and later, in tarpaper barracks during the Japanese Interment of WWII.
Siding is cedar over tarpaper (screwed down) for maximum breathability, long term durability, weight, and looks.
When I put New Black and Watermelon on tarpaper, what does that mean?
For waterproofing the roof against the rainy Oregon climate, Jeffrey wanted to use billboard canvas, but this proved elusive, so a combination of tarpaper (not too eco-friendly) and salvaged cedar shingles was used in the end.
This means that among the tarpaper shantytowns of Lima and São Paulo the interlocutor of theology is not some skeptical «modern man» who thinks religion stifles thought; rather, it is the faceless people whose lives as well as faith are threatened because tyrannies grounded in some religious or nonreligious mythology strangle them into an early death.
The works, on tarpaper, have been torched, hammered and branded with hand - carved wooden blocks made during McCloud's residency in the Philippines.
So then, I'm going to take this New Black paint and put it on tarpaper, and I'm going to mix it with these other colors I've found, like Watermelon.
MCASD later bought Donovan's straight pin cube through the International and Contemporary Collectors, and then acquired an edition of Haze and the tarpaper piece in 2007.
The San Diego presentation of Tara Donovan is organized by MCASD Assistant Curator Lucía Sanromán and will include for the first time in MCASD's galleries a tarpaper piece by the artist entitled Transplanted (2001) that was acquired by MCASD in 2007, also through a grant from The Annenberg Foundation.
Hauser & Wirth will present Allan Kaprow's seminal Environment Yard, an enduringly influential work — a veritable mountain of black rubber auto tires and tarpaper - wrapped forms through which visitors jumped and crawled — first made by the artist in 1961 and radically reinterpreted in other locations eight times before his death in 2006.
Fifty years later and in celebration of the opening of its first American gallery, Hauser & Wirth will present Allan Kaprow's seminal Environment Yard, an enduringly influential work — a veritable mountain of black rubber auto tires and tarpaper - wrapped forms through which visitors jumped and crawled — first made by the artist in 1961 and radically reinterpreted in other locations ten times before his death in 2006.
And the picture of Cy napping on that tarpaper... arguably the best, most entertaining photo you've ever posted here.
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