With subjects painted using vibrant hues and tactile surfaces, Fratino's portraiture depicts a relatable sentimentality by
transforming quotidian activities, like eating, lounging or loving, into opportunities to reflect on the complexities of life.
Not exact matches
What could very well be found in any number of gardens or woods is
transformed from the
quotidian to a time and place we may have inhabited only in dreams.
Featured in Home Improvements are works that
transform the mundane and pay tribute to
quotidian domestic materials: shopping bags, a wall mirror, bath towels, staples, a stroller.
The paintings are carefully observed depictions of
quotidian subjects
transformed into unique images that express the artist's emotional reaction to the subject.
Antonia Pérez, born in New York City, is a visual artist who mines the detritus of everyday life for evidence of the nature of contemporary
quotidian culture and
transforms her finds into sculpture, assemblage and works on paper.
The images themselves became a form of found object — Rauschenberg used pictures clipped from newspapers, showing scenes both iconic and
quotidian, and
transformed them in his prints, while Johns made everyday imagery, like the United States flag or a target, the focal point of his work.
Her fireplace was, then, fairly typical, and her collaboration with native Belgian Laurent Dupont made it into the display for vessels, in which his
quotidian found originals (here from the Czech republic) are
transformed by the simple means of covering them with a thick layer of paint.
Here, McCarthy strikes a balance between the ephemeral / everyday and the valorized - as - art, showing how the
transforming hand of the artist raises
quotidian mass - produced objects (drinking straws, shelving, soft drink cans) to the privileged status of art object.
Argentinean artist Leandro Erlich's show «La Invención» comprised three works, each of which highlights the way that ordinary things can become uncanny when, recontextualized, the
quotidian is
transformed into a space for inquiry.
Hundley's fictive public space addresses the
quotidian experience of waiting — for something good to happen, for news to be delivered, for our personal situation to be
transformed.
Utilizing the abandoned evidence of
quotidian human existence as raw material, Marianne Vitale (American, born 1973)
transforms decaying elements of rural life into rugged visual poems alluding to a larger universal and celestial cosmology.
Using artifacts, discarded
quotidian objects, and wartime ephemera, Attia
transforms the space of the gallery into one of introspection, allowing the viewer to become aware of the complicated and often inaccurate depiction of our multiple histories.