Sentences with phrase «upon everyday materials»

Drawing upon everyday materials such as cigarettes, tights, furniture and vegetables, she probes representations of gender, sexuality and national identity.

With a career spanning four decades, Isa Genzken's works draw upon everyday material culture, including design, consumer goods, the media, architecture, and urban environments.

With a career spanning four decades, Genzken's works draw upon everyday material culture, including design, consumer goods, the media, architecture, and urban environments.

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Updike's everyday experiences were the material — the pure potency, we could say — upon which he exercised his boundlessly formative powers.

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.

Yet upon further inspection, it is evident that their purposes run parallel; each piece — a stacked pyramid of crumpled rice paper, a pile of woven baskets, archival material and oiled canvases — seems to be the embodiment or reflection of what Zhu has maintained throughout his career, regardless if the media were everyday household items, objects of suburban life, or what the critic Li Tuo has deemed «thick paintings».

Robert Davis» abstract mixed media paintings strive to alter sensory perception of everyday materials, manipulating them upon a flat surface to challenge their chemical capabilities.