Sentences with phrase «unassuming materials»

For his recent show at Canada, New York - based artist Gedi Sibony appeared to have raided the supply closets, mail rooms, and cubicles of America, cobbling the unassuming materials he found there into rough - hewn, kooky, weirdly elegant sculptures that owed something to arte povera, something to Richard Tuttle, and something, perhaps, to the laconic, screw - you formalism of Georg Herold.

Consistent with recent tendencies in painting and sculpture, and mirroring similar concepts that Raphael Rubinstein proposed in his 2009 essay «Provisional Painting,» or by the New Museum's inaugural group exhibition, «Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century,» Robinson's assemblage sculptures often reject conventional skills and are made with unconventional, unassuming materials.

Most of the objects here on view, mounted to the gallery walls or resting on its floor, were constructed of unassuming materials — household hinges, wooden dowels, Plexiglas sheets, plywood bits — whose acrylic painted surfaces occasionally gleamed with gold, copper, or aluminum leaf.

Bunga is well known for his large - scale installations made of common, unassuming materials, built with... Learn More

Modern - art pioneer Sol LeWitt has died at age 78, leaving behind a legacy of strikingly simple invention: cubes, lines and installations that covered the floors and walls of museums, along with outdoor sculptures made of concrete, plastic or other unassuming materials.

Provisional paintings are those that might appear unfinished or incomplete; that court intentional awkwardness, physical fragility and instability; that reject the display of conventional skills; that discover beauty in the most unassuming materials; that sometimes grapple with painting's «impossibility».

This makes Degottex a pioneer of what Raphael Rubinstein proposed to name «provisional» painting in an article published in 2009 in Art in America: «Provisional paintings are those that might appear unfinished or incomplete; that court intentional awkwardness, physical fragility and instability; that reject the display of conventional skills; that discover beauty in the most unassuming materials; that sometimes grapple with painting's «impossibility».

His inventive works range in size from monumental kinetic and sound - producing sculptures to almost microscopic pieces created from such unassuming materials as fingernail clippings and eggshells.

The result is a unique and important piece that joins Friedman's long line of self - portraits rendered in unexpected and unassuming materials.

While using ordinary, unassuming materials such as cardboard and tape, the resulting finished works involve an extreme degree of aesthetic care and delicacy.

Studio 10 will present «Host,» with work by Tom Butter that features an 11 - foot - tall kinetic sculpture, while Amos Eno Gallery's «Perceptual Slip» features a group show by Samantha Jones, Erik Patton and José - Ricardo Presman, with work created from discarded and unassuming materials.

Not exact matches

But when he gets a good piece of material, he can turn a potentially routine, average - Joe character into something special and unassuming.

The unassuming, unthreatening, very friendly material actually helps Nintendo achieve some moody mystery about it as the level we saw included a dark purple aesthetic combined with a new gameplay twist.

Employing both found and made material, her work makes satirical and exaggerated use of de - and re-contexulized, unassuming fragments extracted from or mimicking the internet and the quotidian, speaking of an emerging, and in ways increasingly disoriented, generation born into an information matrix that tells the story of who they are and what they desire.

The seeming childishness - the crude motifs and unassuming techniques and the materials - have many echoes in the early 70's on both sides of the Atlantic, in drawings by Joel Shapiro, William Wegman and Jorg Immendorf.

Her materials are unassuming and sometimes involve elements of found furniture re-arranged anew.

Within an unassuming natural wood frame, Kelley has interspersed a variety of cast - off materials — old buttons, earrings, seashells, beads, and other assorted knickknacks — Memory Ware # 37 is a visual phantasmagoria made tangible.

The use of common materials like sharpies, broken glass, ink toner and spraypaint resulting in a collection of unassuming but intense pieces.

Of these connections, I note an interest in paintings of modest scale (a stated interest which is not consistently reflected by the paintings chosen for Reinventing), in «low - key» or unassuming compositions, and a fixation on the artists» renewed «curiosity about paint's material possibilities» («Provisional») and their «rediscover [y][of] the possibilities of painting on stretched canvas, and working with oil paint, figure / ground relationships, [and] applying paint with a brush instead of spraying or folding or pouring or staining» (Reinventing).

Though there's not much said on what specific kinds of materials and methods were used, aesthetically and philosophically the Kofunaki House presents a fresh, modern take on what housing in a contemporary ecovillage might look like: open, unassuming yet full of distinctive touches.

A simple, unassuming breakfast table is surrounded by chairs upholstered in a sturdy indoor / outdoor material.