London - based Studio Swine often uses
unconventional materials in its work, fashioning decorative objects from ocean plastic, cabinets from aluminium foam and eyewear from human hair.
Saturday 4 April 2015 (update) «Counterpoint», Jordi Forniés's new solo show opens at the Octagonal Room 12th April and will run there till 26th April Jordi Forniés is currently in Asia for two research masters: one based on the interaction of painting and music, with the Lasalle College of the Arts (in Singapore) and Goldsmiths University of London, and another one based on the use of
unconventional materials in painting with The University of Sydney.
The unconventional materials in these works often include rubber, plastic, paper, tennis balls, and rope.
My most recent encounter with his works was during his two simultaneous exhibits: Works: 1968 — 1977 (Petzel, March 2 — April 29) consisting of the artist's early unstretched, pieced - together canvases and paper works made of
unconventional materials in serial forms; and Lost Objects (curated by Piper Marshall at Mary Boone Gallery, March 4 — April 29), which features his installation of a smaller reconfiguration of 240 of the 750 cast concrete bone replicas from the fossil collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (1991) along with a cooperative video work May I Help You?
Regina Bogat shared Eva Hesse's inventiveness in utilizing
unconventional materials in her paintings and objects, working with wooden strips, dowels, and other versatile materials like Sculp - metal.
Mithu Sen is an internationally recognized multi-media artist who uses
unconventional materials in her drawings, sculpture and site and time specific installations.
He had begun to use
unconventional materials in his graphic work of that period: he drew with gunpowder and painted and printed with foodstuffs and with
The exhibition explores how key figures in the movement diverged in their working methods, utilizing
unconventional materials in unique ways, but shared key influences.
He uses
unconventional materials in traditional photographic techniques to produce unique photographic prints with a conceptual twist; for example his «dust» series, which uses collected dust and adhesive in place of the usual photographic chemicals to print delicate, gossamer images; or his photographs of lakes and rivers that are developed in liquid collected from the bodies of water themselves.
Made with
unconventional materials in a classic silhouette - double breasted with welt pockets, belt loops and a self belt.
Not exact matches
We enjoy the challenge of finding unique
materials in unconventional ways.
At a March conference on innovation hosted
in Berkeley, Calif., by The Economist, Proteus Biomedical was singled out for the
unconventional materials it uses to make its smart - pill products.
Viruses and odd virus - like bits of genetic
material that lurk within the chromosomes of most organisms, including ourselves, reproduce
in a variety of
unconventional ways.
The vibrations are called phonons, and the electron - phonon coupling the researchers measured was 10 times stronger than theory had predicted — making it strong enough to potentially play a role
in unconventional superconductivity, which allows
materials to conduct electricity with no loss at unexpectedly high temperatures.
«We have found an interesting example of joint multiferroicity, meaning that both conventional and
unconventional multiferroicity develop one after the other
in the same
material,» said ORNL researcher Huibo Cao.
Stephan is a pioneer
in the field of immunobioengineering, working where «
materials science meets immunology» to create
unconventional solutions to treating cancer.
We just love all of the color
in this wreath, and the
unconventional use of
material that just screams autumn.
I've not read the book, but research tells me that the film is rather faithful (especially
in spirit) to the source
material even that the latter has an
unconventional narrative structure.
Adapting Michael Faber's quite
unconventional novel
in a decidedly
unconventional way, Glazer and his co-writer Walter Campbell jettison more than half of source
material — the half that contains explanation as to what is actually going on — to focus on female predator at the centre of the story and her discovery of morality?
I'm thankful for Mark Wahlberg, Nicole Kidman and Halle Berry taking chances
in the producer's chair to usher their passion to the screen, for Natalie Portman and James Franco's dedication to
unconventional material and for Leonardo DiCaprio George Clooney wielding their star power well.
After an opening presentation by G4C President Susanna Pollack on the power and potential of video games to drive social change, students were divided into groups and guided through the game design process
in a rapid - fire game jam: inventing games using
unconventional materials as their game components, playtesting mechanics and refining their rules, and iterating to improve the gameplay.
The raw aesthetic of Cass Corridor art also seemed most
in tune with the conceptual ideas and attitudes of artists such as Eva Hesse, Tony Smith, Mark di Suvero, and Robert Rauschenberg, who used
unconventional materials and produced unorthodox assemblages.
Pushing beyond the long standing tradition of representational art, the works
in (Re) presentation bridge multiple disciplines and often include staged scenes or
unconventional materials.
Compelled to bring the subjective back into her work, Corse re-embraced the paintbrush and focused further on light, incorporating
unconventional materials into her paintings to investigate the subtle differences
in surface treatment.
Allen Jones was one of a group of students which included Derek Boshier, David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj and Peter Phillips, who radically changed the face of British art with their precocious,
unconventional and irreverent work which was based
in popular culture, embracing new subject - matter and new
materials.
Throughout his career, Muniz has created multiple series of photographs, each prefaced with the phrase «Pictures of» and
in which he has used of variety of
unconventional materials, including dirt, sugar, chocolate, wire, and garbage.
Lorri Ott's experimental paintings combine
unconventional materials such as poured plastics and fibers to create paintings that are fluid both
in composition and
material.
While often lumped
in with Pop Art, his predilection for
unconventional materials and subject matters aligns him more closely with the Minimal and Conceptual Art, and the Whitney Museum retrospective that this book, authored by AICA member Jennifer Gross, documents makes clear the degree to which the ambiguities of perception drive this influential artist's creativity.
His innovations have been made
in a spectacular range of mediums — painting and sculpture, silkscreen and lithography, photography and transfer drawing — and have incorporated such
unconventional materials as newspaper, cardboard, and found objects.
Cage's own visual work often drew upon the chance processes that guided his music, as well as the
unconventional, everyday
materials that he employed
in his performances.
While the major artists of the movement produced different kinds of work, they were united by an interest
in unconventional — typically everyday —
materials, evidenced
in Mario Merz's Cone (1967), made from willow, and Mario Ceroli's Io (1968), an iron and coal sphere.
Peterson's
unconventional approach to
materials and his commitment to audience engagement serve to activate the public realm
in new and unexpected ways.
His poetic use of found
materials, printed and reproducible images, his
unconventional and inventive mark - making, and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb stains of nature and of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed within Schnabel's entire body of work as well as
in the work of a subsequent generation of artists.
Goodman Gallery Cape Town is pleased to present History Doesn't Laugh, a solo exhibition by Hank Willis Thomas first seen
in our Johannesburg gallery earlier this year, which highlights the artist's interest
in representing photographic ideas through
unconventional materials.
Recently, Lehmann Maupin signed its first Chinese artist, the 40 - year - old Liu Wei, who works
in painting and photography, but has been focused recently on large - scale architectural sculptures that resemble cityscapes and are made from
unconventional materials, like door frames and books.
The domestic is also a recurring theme
in the work of Argentine - born, Los Angeles - based Analia Saban, who often adopts images of domestic spaces and objects
in her
unconventional experiments with technique, process, and
materials.
MAD curator Ron Labaco describes Stella this way: «Painter, printmaker, sculptor, and architect, his works explore dimensionality
in unconventional ways, and have revealed his never - ending quest to push the boundaries of not just medium but
materials.»
The globe - trotting dealer Sundaram Tagore, who first set up shop
in Hollywood Road
in 2007, will present a solo exhibition by Singaporean artist Jane Lee, who is best known for challenging preconceptions about painting through her innovative and visually striking treatments of
unconventional materials.
In the years before the mid-1980s art market boom, Schnabel forged a pictorial language that embraced
unconventional methods and
materials with a visceral effect; he introduced to the American contemporary art scene a particularly European post-war sensibility through his admiration for Francis Picabia and his personal artistic dialogue with Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo; and he broke with the prevailing conceptualism through figuration, personal narratives and references to history and mythology.
His mature work is inconceivable except
in terms of acrylic, with its fluidity, its acquiescence
in unconventional techniques, and its special range of luminosity
in color» (A Unity of Man and
Materials, San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 1972).
These works — often incorporating
unconventional materials or monumental scale — reveal the artists as under - recognized leaders
in abstraction.
Like the
unconventional use of the printing press
in these works, this recycling of cast - off studio supplies was typical of Rauschenberg's open - minded and experimental approach to his art
materials.
In his newest paintings he makes use of
unconventional materials and techniques ranging from dirt and dust, (liquid) metals and meteorite particles.
Every day he is garnering more and more attention with his shadowy abstract paintings created
in rather unique and unusual manner, using
unconventional materials such as lipstick, drywall mud, dirt and even lidocaine.
In her painting practice Earnest uses
unconventional materials such as aluminum tape, carpet fuzz, insulation, drywall tape, cement, contact paper, latex gloves, and joint compound, and she seeks to explore how abstract spaces such as «home» can be defined through the complex relationship between objects and memory.
The artist's use of
unconventional materials and his central position
in early British Conceptual Art is further informed by displays of contemporary
material from the Estate archive, including examples of the artist's concrete poetry, working drawings, logbooks and photographs.
Jones was one of a group of students which included Derek Boshier, David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj and Peter Phillips, who radically changed the face of British art with their precocious,
unconventional and irreverent work which was based
in popular culture, embracing new subject - matter and new
materials.
He explained that the looped - wire sculptures of this American artist, who died
in 2013, had historically been mislabeled as craft because of her use of
unconventional materials and techniques.
Born
in 1936
in Turin, and working alongside many of the Arte Povera artists since 1968 — a group of artists who explored
unconventional processes and non-traditional «poor»
materials — Griffa has always remained somewhat on the sidelines, working
in the same studio for nearly fifty years and traveling little.
The
unconventional materials used
in her work include vinyl lanyard, monofilament, plastic mesh, rubber & vinyl tubing, plastic & Styrofoam balls, and upholstery needles.