Sentences with phrase «ubiquity of»

For myself and a lot of my peers, the studio is still the locus of a very materially - based practice, perhaps in reaction to the coolness, distance, and ubiquity of screens.

By the 1950s, the ubiquity of the pinup, combined with the popularity of camera clubs for hobbyists, resulted in a burgeoning cottage industry for amateur girlie pictures like the ones seen here.

Sturtevant focuses on the ubiquity of images which surround us day in, day out and affect our perception of reality, presents stereotypes, and takes a sharp and critical look at a lethargic society which is increasingly encompassed by a digitally shaped surface and moulded by the experience industry: «What is currently compelling is our pervasive cybernetic mode, which plunks copyright into mythology, makes origins a romantic notion, and pushes creativity outside the self.

The ubiquity of the Life photograph and the faulty histories of Abstract Expressionism have meant that white artists have been less likely to know black artists such as Lewis.

Using collage strategies, sculptural tropes and theater staging techniques, Lipps's series is a requiem for analog image - making, which is relevant to the ubiquity of photography in the digital age.

Perhaps because of the contemporary ubiquity of art that traffics in language and appropriation, it's difficult to get a true sense of Ruppersberg's influence.

The patterns of windows and the ubiquity of rectangular forms divided by triangles of light became part of the vernacular of modern painting.

Motherwell is an artist whose work I have come to dread due to the ubiquity of unbalanced abstraction in the secondary market.

Given the ubiquity of these tiny breaks in the color patterns, I was surprised that Forge had not pigmented the prime coat before he started to apply paint, thus minimizing the harshness of the division between color and no - color.

Durham has often referred to the strange ubiquity of oil barrels in our contemporary environment.

Meanwhile, the display of her cutaways of battleships, mansions, and even an auction house with their stylized, weirdly good - humored depravity confirmed to this now hardened fan (note the skepticism in the earlier reviews reposted below) her unexpected capacity to build distinct mood within each work despite the seeming ubiquity of her aesthetic and moral world view.»

This relationship has changed with the ubiquity of digital technology.

The rise of smartphones and tablets, coupled with the ubiquity of high - speed networks for searching, streaming, and selecting content to share, has made it possible to curate with just one touch, tap, or swipe.

In juxtaposing the myriad references the coins bring to mind — the ubiquity of 99 Cent stores in low - income neighborhoods, accompanied by the textual references to sales and bargains — alongside the high - art status of the actual objects, stunningly rendered in burnished metal, and displayed in the context of a Chelsea gallery, poignant contrasts emerged.

Whether dealing with inherently human issues, digital simulacra or pop culture landscapes (and in response to the ubiquity of well crafted fiction in video art) these videos are all concerned with presenting individual and subjective truths, maintaining the viewer as the final interpreter of the discourses they set in motion.

It's a consideration of self - representation that Camplin has opened into a wider conversation — one that negotiates between the ubiquity of mainstream imagery and the specificities of shared, private language — in her many collaborations with a group of peers including Mark Leckey, Lucy McKenzie, Enrico David, and Paulina Olowska.

1 «KANDINSKY, MALEVICH, MONDRIAN: THE INFINITE WHITE ABYSS» (K20 KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN - WESTFALEN, DÜSSELDORF; CURATED BY MARION ACKERMANN AND ISABELLE MALZ WITH ANSGAR LORENZ) In a nice twist to the ubiquity of the modernist black square, this excellent show explored the use of white in the work of Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian.

This show gives up well before the ubiquity of personal computing, and it stops well short of interactive, too, apart from the nature of art.

«The paintings — known as the Welcome series — are both a highly - charged visual investigation into the ubiquity of security grilles in countries such as Jamaica, and an exploration of their geometric patterning.

Inspired by the Secession building in Vienna, and the ubiquity of a certain type of rapacious weed in Hackney, the artist Rachel Whiteread has designed a golden frieze that will finally solve a 111 - year - old problem.

The work, created in the past five years, explores the influence and ubiquity of major tech corporations based in California's Silicon Valley, from which the show draws its name.

Although a direct reference to the ubiquity of garden sheds throughout the suburbs of London, the work has an equally universal impact in its depiction of such a familiar, domestic structure.

Given the ubiquity of such ideas, the question is not so much why this is happening now, as why it isn't happening more.

Given the ubiquity of printed matter in daily life, it is no wonder that people often become more concerned with the representation of a thing than the thing itself.

Only the ubiquity of Ai Weiwei feels promotional.

By placing two discrete generations of artistic practice in conversation with one another, Liquid Modernity reevaluates the ways in which the ubiquity of technology influences the interpretation of information.

Since then, there have been many artists who've used photo collage, like Pictures Generation artists John Baldessari and Barbara Kruger, as a means for expressing the ubiquity of images and bold feminist statements, respectively.

Aitken's Sonic Fountain II features in the Biennale, curated by Emma Lavigne to unfurl like a voyage around an archipelago of islands in a city whose identity has been shaped partly by the ubiquity of water.

On view through July 31, 2018, the intimate display will examine the historical underpinnings of the nation's distinct fixation with guns and the ubiquity of firearms in America's cultural landscape.

A central focus of the exhibition is the ubiquity of the mural art form as a backdrop for the Polaroid photos taken in prison visitation rooms, as well as the microeconomy and unspoken negotiation embedded in the creation and circulation of these images — which must be purchased with many hours of labor by the inmates.

The allure and ubiquity of religious signifiers are explored and interrogated in the exhibition «Dirt Altar» at Looking Lab project space, run by performance artist and public art advocate Joy Leverette.

In her review of the ICA Boston's current exhibition, Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, Megan Driscoll (PhD candidate in contemporary and African American art at the University of California Los Angeles) attends to the conflicted responses that the featured artists and exhibition curators alike express toward the ubiquity of computer networks, unpacking exhibition subthemes ranging from «states of surveillance» to «performing the self.»

The nearly ten million pictures referenced in the title are a concrete instance of the idea that everyone is becoming a cultural producer, their own Heinecken, yet the kitschy ubiquity of sunset photography undermines any triumphalism in that sentiment.

The little - known Prouvost didn't quite have the hype of Sehgal just off his showings at the Venice Biennale and a blockbuster at Frieze New York, nor the ubiquity of Shrigley who has gained cache in the music and film worlds, nor the international prestige of Boakye.

He saw the ubiquity of television as an ideal vehicle for the dissemination of artwork.

Bringing together nearly 40 works, the intimate display examines Americans» distinct fixation with guns and the ubiquity of firearms in America's cultural landscape.

The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.

Indeed, there are always potential failures and limits to effective communication — things forgotten, misunderstood, and even censored — despite the seeming ease and ubiquity of new technologies and platforms.

What she terms «sublime ordinariness» manifests itself in a muted pastel - and - beige colour palette, and recurring visual motifs such as pearls, butterflflies, hearts and motivational slogans, act as reminders of the ubiquity of the mundane and the cute in presentations of identity and taste in social media and beyond.

The ubiquity of reproducible mediums in contemporary art has a brief but complex history, dating to the 1960s and 1970s when a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices.

Using her own footage and found material, Rose addresses the ubiquity of images and how it generates meaning.

Think of the Guggenheim's summer survey of abstraction, which shifted the focus to Europe, or the ubiquity of Manga right now.

From studies of the early Dutch colonial settlers to reports on contemporary art - market caprices, this new field of cultural history proves that our American taste for Dutch art stretches further back than Donna Tartt's trendy Pulitzer - winner or the cultural ubiquity of The Girl with the Pearl Earring.

Some are predictably derogatory to women, demonstrating the continued ubiquity of sexist attitudes reinforced by language, while others are directly recovered from obsolescence, representing the nuanced mix of confusion, humor, self - deprecation, and empowerment that accompanies the shifting consciousness of women.

Hopefully, the new ubiquity of such technology will bring it into the realm of affordability for other museums with limited budgets.

On view March 10 through July 31, 2018, the intimate display will examine the historical underpinnings of the nation's distinct fixation with guns and the ubiquity of firearms in America's cultural landscape.

Upon close inspection, the complexity of Green's work materializes as do her fascination with the nature of the screen and its capacity to alter the way we interpret the ubiquity of content on our iPads and smartphones.

Poaching upon the ubiquity of the photographed (or filmed) image, Songsong paints scenes drawn from contemporary events and personal snapshots, rendering them in stucco - like slurries of oil paint.

Divorcing themselves from the ubiquity of the Internet means that artists are cutting themselves off from the day to day life of the average person under 30.

Engines make game development easier and cheaper, but the ubiquity of Unreal Engine 3, the driving force behind everything from Batman: Arkham Asylum to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, appears to have drained some of the color from video games.