Sentences with phrase «unconventional materials such»

Still, the same fashion industry that's jumped on the eco-bandwagon with everything from vegan shoes to couture gowns made out of organic cotton is turning to unconventional materials such as hemp and turning out some surprisingly gorgeous gowns.

Drawing inspiration from the materials she found in an abandoned textile factory in Kettwig, she made her first three - dimensional artworks, and when she returned to New York she devoted herself exclusively to sculpture, creating fragile works in unconventional materials such as polyester, fiberglass and latex.

Each uniquely hand colored print stands in a vertical orientation, using unconventional materials such as polyurethane foam to create the basis for the protruding forms.

Known for his portraits made of unconventional materials such as peanut butter, sugar or syrup, the artist created classical photographic portrait compositions made of scavenged garbage on site.

His material list includes rather unconventional materials such as dust or air.

Lebanese artist Dala Nasser employs unconventional materials such as liquid latex, brick pigment and dirt collected off the floor, on «grounds» including tarpaulin and trauma blankets to create a body of work that, possessing an intricate physicality, speaks to the contemporary moment.

Using unconventional materials such as Formica and Celotex (a fibrous paper - composite often used for ceiling tiles), he has made paintings that incorporate three - dimensional space and sculptures that embrace pictorial illusion.

Instead, she uses unconventional materials such as basketballs or burning candles.

On view are Haberny's recent mixed - media paintings and ceramic sculptures, which he made using unconventional materials such as ash, paper towels, wire hangers, dirt, and candle wax.

Early tactile collages in unconventional materials such as pumice, black tar and burlap, including Nero Catrame (1951), Sacco e Rosso (1956) and Sacco Bianco e Nero (1956) transform the traditional definition of painting by employing a new language and giving life to hitherto unheard - of expressive results.

This is an artist with a rich technical vocabulary, unique vision and unsurpassed skill, who is just as comfortable working with unconventional materials such as glass tableware, thousands of dice stacked together to form fluid overlapping folds, found objects, and plastics, as he is with the more accepted media, such as perforated steel, wood or bronze.

Alberto Burri (1915 - 1995) predates Arte Povera but could be considered the father of the movement, having first explored the use of unconventional materials such as fire, jute, wood and iron at the end of the 1940s.

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.

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.

Over the past fifty years, Foulkes has combined his cruel and expressionist vision with his audacious experimentation with pictorial means, integrating unconventional materials such as hair, cotton and wood, and creating assemblages with recuperated objects.

Perhaps the most inventive work was produced by the so - called Light and Space group, whose members, including James Turrell, John McCracken, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman and Robert Irwin, embraced unconventional materials such as plastic and fluorescent lights.

Her choice to use unconventional materials such as resin, latex and cloth was underlined by a recurrent interrogation of the relation between male and female genders, leading many to a conclusion Bourgeois was a prominent representative of the Feminist movement.

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.

Not exact matches

His Cardboards 1971 - 2 — a wry comment on the forces of globalisation — and his sumptuous fabric works such as the Jammers 1975 - 6 — inspired by his visit to the Indian textile centre of Ahmedabad — demonstrate his skilful play with unconventional materials.

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.

Perhaps fitting for its era, the 60s art world awakened to unconventional materials - artists experimented with industrial and commercial materials such as lead, Plexiglas, synthetic fabrics and automotive paints.

During the same period, he began to use unconventional materials and media, mixing traditional paints with such purposefully commonplace materials as sand, ash, marble powder, paper, cloth, and string.

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.

Nelson often incorporates unconventional materials, such as cheesecloth, modeling paste, or strips of painted fabric or painted string to the work to add textural elements to her paintings.

The European avant - garde artists used this concept to offend the straight art world and power brokers by using unconventional materials, such as toilet bowls, and painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa.

As peculiar and unconventional as it was, Process art inevitably led its members towards the use of nontraditional, uncommon materials such as latex, wax, felt, grass, fire, broken glass.

Painted on such unconventional materials as mattress fabric, offset wood and a box from a pharmacy, they make up for their scattershot, unrefined nature with a taste of the shape of things to come: raw visages, scrawled text and an obsession with the organisation of space.

When his pieces were initially exhibited by Castelli Gallery in the 1960s, Sonnier set a precedent for abandoning the rules of traditional sculpture, forgoing the pedestal to create wall - based works and trading traditional media such as bronze and marble for unconventional and psychologically loaded materials, such as cloth and latex.

Friedman is well known for works that make unconventional use of ordinary materials and that play with notions of perception, logic, and humor, often spurring basic questions such as «what is it?»

Using VHS magnetic tape and other unconventional materials, Kempinas crafts dynamic works that are activated by natural phenomena such as light and the circulation of air.

Formally trained in graphic design, Taek explores unconventional methods of creating three - dimensional type with materials and techniques unique to type design — such as ceramics and desktop 3D printing.

From unconventional materials and processes, he creates figurative forms such as Self (1991).

In her practice, she often used tools associated with mechanical reproduction that she employs in unconventional ways, as well as mechanically reproduced materials, such as a windows screens, plastic mannequins, and studio floor debris from previous art pieces.

As such, Rama continued to exist in her own bubble outside of the popular sphere, and yet her late 1960s and early 1970s works, with their use of unconventional art materials and craft forms, can certainly be seen through the lens of the movement.

In her newest series of mixed media creations, Nicol pushes the bounds of her practice through the inclusion of fine jewelry and pearls, collaged photographic negatives, and such unconventional materials as taffeta, chiffon, and leather.

A master of combining various painting techniques, Pindell is accustomed to using strange artistic materials such as glitter, talcum powder and perfumes, unconventional practices that helped her stretch the boundaries of the rigid tradition that blindly relied on rectangular, canvas painting.

Drawing on unconventional means of transformation, such as alchemy and magic, as a way to examine the metaphysical changes that occur when materials are used to conceptualize complex ideas, Now You See It — which includes work by Walead Beshty, Alexandra Bircken, Ceal Floyer, Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Wade Guyton, Wolfgang Laib, Robert Morris, William O'Brien, Mitzi Pederson, Dieter Roth, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Anna Sew Hoy, Gedi Sibony, Rudolf Stingel, Lawrence Weiner, Jennifer West and Erwin Wurm — proffers the notion that visual recognition alone is insufficient to determine an object's materiality.

Her techniques vary: she alternately uses acrylics, pastels, inks and graphites and likes to employ unconventional materials, such as ripped canvas or painters tape.

She pioneered, among other things, experimentation with new and unconventional materials, such as latex and fiberglass, whose durability she knew was questionable.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualised experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research - intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualized experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.