Sentences with phrase «traditional artist materials»

Not exact matches

Los Angeles - based artist Sarah Cain takes painting outside of its traditional canon by using man - made and natural materials to create a tension between abstract, geometric...

Fiber and Form: The Woman's Legacy, focuses on seven female artists who have consistently incorporated the act of sewing and / or fiber in their two and three dimensional works, celbrating the female artist's inclination to sew and the reinterpretation of traditional utilitarian materials including linen, leather, cotton, burlap, and lace.

The artist incorporates an array of materials from the traditional to the exotic.

Rather than employing traditional or found materials with symbolic value, the artists appropriate from diverse sources including industrial materials and commercial packaging like clear tape, hot glue, and plastics.

In creating these works, the artists used various techniques including altering the outline of the canvas, building up relief, cutting into the plane, and using materials alternate to traditional canvas as support.

Although several sculptures employ crackle glaze and other nods to traditional pottery, the works in this exhibition are notable for the wide range of effects achieved with such contemporary materials as epoxy resin, catalyzed polyurethane, and high - gloss automotive paint mixed to the artist's specifications and applied with an airbrush.

Learn traditional Shibori fabric dyeing techniques using a variety of all - natural materials during this afternoon workshop taught by artist and designer, Kalen Kaminski.

Organized by Celia Forner, who collaborated closely with the artists, the Portable Art Project includes unique pieces as well as editioned series, crafted from an array of materials ranging from traditional gold and silver with precious and semi-precious gems, to enamel, aluminum, bronze, and iron.

The Ghanian artist combines old aluminum and other recycled materials and weaves them into tapestries inspired by West Africa's traditional textiles.

Keeping with its aim of promoting a new generation of Asian artists, Galerie Paris - Beijing celebrates the creative energy of the Land of the Calm Morning with works that combine the use of traditional materials such as wood, metal or charcoal, and the exploration of highly innovative techniques.

The signature unorthodox, «poor» materials in his works include steel tubes, cloth, newspapers, and wax; [3] the artist, however, often used also traditional and expensive art materials such as gold, marble, and bronze.

In Golden Arches, the artist has intentionally avoided the use of plastic and other contemporary mass - produced industrial goods, opting instead for such traditional sculpting materials as plaster, bronze and gold.

The exhibition shows the range of materials and processes employed by artists today — appropriation, traditional studio practice, spatial interventions, digital production, collaboration and the use of chance and found objects, and offers an indication of what audiences may encounter in art galleries in the coming years.

The artist presents a curated selection of sculptures that draw inspiration from aspects of domestic handicraft and traditional sculptural materials.

After all the years of videos, rumpled beds and elephant dung, a truly shocking contemporary artist emerged last night as the bookie's favourite to win the # 20,000 Turner Prize - Michael Raedecker, who creates delicately beautiful, eerie landscapes in the traditional materials of paint and embroidery on canvas.

The sculptures exhibit a similar approach, with the artist taking the traditional sculptural portrait format of the bust as a point of departure and creating an unexpected composite through the addition of new forms and materials.

Produced using a variety of techniques, including slip - casting and hand - molding, in traditional and non-traditional materials, including glazed ceramic, Sculp - metal, polyurethane, and epoxy, Nagle's works are displayed here in specially made niches and plate - glass vitrines designed in close collaboration with the artist.

Yet this is not an exclusive element; there is a long line of artists, including Gianni Ruffi, Roberto Barni, Silvio Pasotti, Umberto Bignardi, and Claudio Cintoli, who take on reality as a toy, as a great pool of imagery from which to draw material with disenchantment and frivolity, questioning the traditional linguistic role models with a renewed spirit of «let me have fun» à la Aldo Palazzeschi.

In contrast to postwar American artists who constructed a language of freedom through an innovative use of traditional materials, many Italian artists — both those who were part of arte povera and those more indirectly influenced by it — adopted «poor» materials in order to free themselves from the

Opening on March 13, 2016, Rebecca Warren: The Main Feeling will explore the artist's use of diverse materials to challenge traditional sculptural conventions.

Many artists today are producing paintings and sculptures that resemble or reference textiles, using traditional materials like paint, canvas, wood, paper and glass.

Artist Mark Bradford moves past a traditional definition of painting with his palimpsest - like canvases comprising layers of collaged and painted material that the artist sands, slices, and lacArtist Mark Bradford moves past a traditional definition of painting with his palimpsest - like canvases comprising layers of collaged and painted material that the artist sands, slices, and lacartist sands, slices, and lacquers.

The artist, known for working on a monumental scale and utilizing a wide range of more industrial materials in his work, selected a more traditional medium for this diptych on view at the gallery's booth at The Armory Show.

Scottish artist Karla Black creates large - scale, site specific works, employing both traditional artistic media and everyday materials, including chalk, dust, and dirt.

Inspired both by traditional bracelets and cargo cults — religious groups who believe material wealth can be obtained through ritual worship, the San Antonio artist presents a monumental charm bracelet sculpted out of reclaimed wood and related drawings.

The exhibition includes a couple of my paintings alongside work by ten other artists who are engaged with conceptual content but dedicated to traditional materials — paint, stone, collage.

Chinese artist Jacky Tsai creates distinctive works with an inventive approach to traditional materials and craftsmanship.

Adapting age - old techniques and traditional materials, artists working in fiber manipulate gravity, light, color, mass, and transparency to demonstrate the infinite transformations and iterations of their material.

Abstract art in the forms of painting and sculpture have a long history, by breaking with traditional methods and materials, these artists are continuing with an exploration into perception.

But the most striking characteristic of these paintings is the artist's usage of mixed materials - such as wooden sticks, sand and glass onto the thick acrylic paints - to allow the painting to present a totally different texture from the traditional paintings.

Peri, like other female artists working with similar materials, was restricted by the classification of her work as either «traditional woman's work» or «craft».

Incorporating layers of material and process in the mixed - media work Landscape Majestic (2010), New York — based artist Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) creates a lush landscape recalling influences from the Hudson River School to Édouard Manet as she explores traditional and pop culture aspects of beauty.

Through conversations with academics, curators and artists both in China and the UK, Julien uncovered a symbolic body of material which he has used to create a work that explores modern and traditional Chinese values and superstitions.

His radical struggle against traditional norms, incorporation of unorthodox materials, uncompromising concentration on neglected and downtrodden artists — these are some of the most crucial alterations contemporary period has to offer.

I am taken by the fact that many artists are seemingly less concerned with Western formulas, Pop and Expressionism among them, and are focusing instead on developing ways of working with more traditional materials including ink, brushes, and xuan paper.

His bold brushstrokes lyrically combine the gestural impulses of action painting with the tradition of Chinese calligraphy painting and the artist often playfully pairs the traditional medium of ink with alternative materials such as coffee, tea and oil paint.

The volume surveys artists who perceive their own bodies and identities as unique and malleable raw material in a way that surpasses the confines of traditional self - portraiture.

From exacting works created with traditional media to pieces that employ more experimental approaches and materials, New Work: Drawings Today presents a survey of contemporary drawings by 27 artists based primarily in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Led by Anne Desmet, internationally renowned printmaker, collage artist and Royal Academician, this two - day practical workshop, appropriate for beginner and intermediate levels, will introduce the remarkable art and craft of traditional wood engraving printing and its specialist materials, tools, techniques and history in an intimate, small group setting.

During the 1980s, members of the Fiber and Space Art Studio, such as Shi Hui, participating artist and one of the exhibition's three curators, experimented with structures and space through materials such as bamboo and paper, in addition to the traditional materials of wool, linen and cotton.

Younger artists are adopting traditional practices, while the movement's godmothers (the majority of fiber artists are female) are barreling ahead with new materials, ideas, and techniques.

As Rose Lord, Director of Marian Goodman Gallery in New York and Paris, explained, the artist, who previously worked with a variety of non-traditional materials, including plastics and found objects, now turned to more traditional materials including wood and bronze.

From the»40s on, American Abstract Expressionism dominated the Western art landscape and returned many artists» attention to the evocative formal qualities of paint on canvas and traditional sculptural materials — although the biggest figure associated with «Action Painting», Jackson Pollock, also stuck detritus including cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and keys onto the surfaces of his paintings.

With a range of traditional and nontraditional materials, including acrylic and oil paint, ceramic, paper, canvas, carpet, and larvae, as well as varying techniques — from painting, pouring, cutting to burning — the artists employ different degrees of chance, and some more than others.

This exhibition celebrates accomplished women artists whose works incorporate both traditional and unexpected materials.

Exploring «reality» and «virtual space,» the exhibition will present a group of works by artists who employ both traditional materials and / or digital media to create new, imaginary landscapes.

Rejecting, perhaps, the serial obsolescence of commodity, the artists» subtle gestures explore the limits of material, support, surface, and structure, finding continuation in our most traditional art practices.

An interactive touch screen kiosk in the gallery will provide supplemental material on the artist's process as well as his traditional artistic training steeped in landscape painting and modernist directions influenced by studies with both Raphael Soyer and Oscar Kokoshka.

In the 1960s, while studying at Turin's Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, he fell under the influence of older contemporaries, including Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giovanni Anselmo — artists who used unconventional materials and forms to create works that replaced the artifice of academic art with simplicity, criticism of traditional social values and an interest in the potential of the everyday.

The quality of the material, as in the processing of the fibers within the paper pulp, carries a certain hierarchical significance accompanied by traditional methods of working, which are commonly understood by artists trained in one or more of the great classical traditions in Asia.