Sentences with phrase «urban detritus»

The effect is heraldic and apocalyptic — a massive memento mori that combines the artist's frenzied configurations of urban detritus with explicit stone carvings in granite, marble and limestone.

The image is made up of «hand painted posters and commercial notices mixing contemporary urban detritus with the tradition of Chinese calligraphy,» according to the benefit catalogue.

Her expressionist paintings are inspired by a wide variety of art historical references, from Situationism and Abstract Expressionism to graffiti and cartoon, and her found - object sculptures assembled from urban detritus feel more playful and light than their material constituents.

Incorporating various urban detritus, from cassette tapes, guitars and bins to car tyres, Lucy highlights the wastefulness of consumerism.

In 1959, Mallary took a teaching position at Pratt and moved to New York, where he would combine the brooding weight and density of the New Mexico abstractions with ephemeral urban detritus, creating works that established him among the core artists exploring junk art, such as John Chamberlain, Richard Stankiewicz, Claes Oldenburg and Lee Bontecou.

In this week's roundup, Mark Bradford repurposes South L.A. urban detritus, Allora & Calzadilla perform at MoMA, Raymond Pettibon goes hard in the paint, artists have a couple of firsts, and much...

Silence of the Music combines folk art, pop culture, and urban detritus in order to offer an expansive impression of the artists» unique artistic perspective and creative process.

Many of my early projects like Chance City were inspired by urban detritus.

This relocation marked a shift from the gritty urban detritus that had been the basis of much of the earlier work to a rhapsodic embrace of color and geometric abstraction in a wholly new vernacular language.

This urban bird's nest features black Gypsophila, dark violet Tracheliums, and white Agapanthus, as well as bits of straw and other urban detritus.

Richard Wentworth: motes to self Charlotte Poseneske: Early Works Peter Freeman, 140 Grand Street Both shows run through May 31 What's on view: A series of sparse Ab / Ex-looking minimal drawings and paintings from the 1950s and 1960s (Charlotte Poseneske); photographs of fences, grates, urban detritus made strange pinned up on the walls, and lined up on long work tables (Richard Wentworth)

At roughly the same time, David Hammons's Higher Goals (1986) merged urban detritus with the lofty possibilities associated with basketball during the era of Michael Jordan.

Through economical and invasive means, the artist transforms urban detritus such as found cardboard, police barricades, and carpet remnants into bunker - like structures that retain a semblance of solidity yet convey a feeling of melancholy and gloom.

Mallary developed a unique and experimental style capturing fragile found urban detritus - discarded pieces of cardboard, wood, cloth rags, and later, Tuxedos, casting them in resin to become hard and permanent.

Alex Eckman - Lawn offers multi-layered collages that seem to belong to no particular time or place, while Amze Emmons presents paintings of oft - overlooked urban detritus, and Jason Andrew Turner unravels conventional representational painting into something more abstract and elemental.

Richard Haden's beaten - up metal fender appears to be a piece of common urban detritus, but upon closer look - or glimpsing a clue - one discovers that it has been carefully constructed of wood, paint and epoxy.

In his recyclings of urban detritus including plastic shopping bags, white perforated paper reinforcements, envelopes, pillows, old tires and even a pair of baseball player's pants, Los Angeles - based artist Steve DeGroodt practices another variety of abstraction.

Despite his apparent taste for urban detritus, the lyrical aesthetic here is indicated by works» titles such as Luna, Luna, Luna and Gondola Walt Whitman.

In 2013, Chagas won for his country the Golden Lion for best national pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale with his exhibition, Luanda, Encyclopedic City, comprised of twenty - three stacks of mass - produced photographs of urban detritus drawn from the artist's series Found Not Taken (2009 — 13).

Salvaged from billboards, telephone poles, and the supply drawers of beauty salons, this humble urban detritus resonates with cultural meaning and a sense of place.

Each piece loses its way in the midst of the various urban detritus and abstract illumination cast from a multi-channel video work (Period, 2018).

In 1959 Mallary took a teaching position at Pratt and moved to New York, where he would combine the brooding weight and density of the New Mexico abstractions with ephemeral urban detritus.

In this week's roundup, Mark Bradford repurposes South L.A. urban detritus, Allora & Calzadilla perform at MoMA, Raymond Pettibon goes hard in the paint, artists have a couple of firsts, and much more.

Employing found materials culled from urban detritus and popular media such as postcards, wallpaper, stickers, and fabric, Wesselmann executed several discrete but related series of collages that variously depict figures (both anonymous and known), interiors, and still lifes.

The bottom section features a pileup of urban detritus, in which one can discern brick buildings, a childish rendering of an automobile, and garbage cans.

Their objects and images present nature as a shifting space that can include tree roots and minerals as well as real estate and urban detritus.

Coolquitt has frequently utilized scavenged materials to create Apollonian, totemic, energy staffs, or entropic, pathos - infused gatherings of urban detritus.

Ibrahim Mahama and Eric N. Mack use everyday materials and urban detritus to build tactile abstractions that question capital and labor, in Mahama's case, and identity and community, in Mack's.

Anton Unai is Spanish street artist who uses found objects and urban detritus to create collages and large - scale installations.

«His subjects range from the roadways, urban detritus, and industrial backyards of the East Coast to the oil fields and empty terrain of Texas.

At first, I can't work out what it is, and then it becomes apparent that it's the stripped down frame of a park bench: a piece of urban detritus.

Drew's abstract prints reimagine the artist's sculptures of urban detritus — and also resemble topographic maps, starry nights, and dense cityscapes.

The transformation of everyday and urban detritus is one of Chicago - based artist Theaster Gates» (born 1973) fundamental artistic strategies.

Through a repurposing of urban detritus, this New York — based artist explores the semiotics of politics, economics, labor, and migration in his sculptural installations.

The term Assemblage art was first coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953 to denote a type of work constructed from fragments of natural, preformed or «found» objects such as household debris, urban detritus, stuffed animals - indeed any (usually recognizable) materials, large or small.

Construction and art materials, urban detritus, domestic items, and even the occasional animal make their way into New York - based artist Alex Hubbard's dynamic videos.

Penn's still life compositions included meticulous arrangements of items - including food, bones, domestic implements, bottles, metal, urban detritus, and found objects.

Phyllida Barlow's practice reflects a distinct new direction in contemporary sculpture, one concerned with urban detritus, waste, recycling and a kind of «anti-form».

Appropriating urban objects such as scrap metal, doors, old signs, and other industrial fragments, sculptor Sebastian Lloyd Rees has created an archeological language from urban detritus.

These works represent detail views of the collapsed structures and reveal Mazzu's ongoing interest in urban detritus and industrial decay.

In a constantly shifting flat plane, building and art materials, urban detritus, and domestic items make their way into Alex Hubbard's two new videos, EAT YOUR FRIENDS and BOTTOM OF THE TOP, and now on to his paintings too.

Various geometric forms composed of concrete, wood, and mirrors — described as «urban detritus» — rest on the floor.