Sentences with phrase «urban detritus in»

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.

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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.

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, creating works that established him among the core artists exploring junk art, such as John Chamberlain, Richard Stankiewicz, Claes Oldenburg and Lee Bontecou.

Dubuffet believed children, the uneducated and the naive are able to immediately «hit the bull's - eye» and arrive at something visionary in their art making.The detritus and random objects of urban streets represented a diminishing horizon, for him, between high and low art.

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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.

Incorporating modified detritus — billboard paper, photomechanical reproductions, wrapping and carbon paper — in its densely accreted, silver - gray surfaces, Ghost Money is a rich representation of urban life that pays particular attention to the «underbelly» economies that are interlaced with social injustices.

Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.

Reflecting on Hammons's mid-1970s sculptures made with grease, bones, hair and rubbish, curator Lowery S. Sims wrote in Art As a Verb (1988): «[He] confronts our commodity - predicated notion of the dear, the beautiful, and transforms our perception of and reception to the humble detritus of our urban society.»

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.

Likewise, his monochromatic paintings adorned with gobs of dirty, chewed gum, which reference German cities bombed in World War II, are simultaneously melancholic and comically absurd, referencing the tradition of expressionist painting through the mundane detritus of urban life.

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.

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

In contrast, the «stone» Caesar starts with is made in a huge rectangular mold, which he filled with detritus scavenged from industrial dumps and urban garbage heaps: PVC pipes, shredded tires, carpet padding, fiberglass insulation, aluminum straps, broken glass and splintered plywooIn contrast, the «stone» Caesar starts with is made in a huge rectangular mold, which he filled with detritus scavenged from industrial dumps and urban garbage heaps: PVC pipes, shredded tires, carpet padding, fiberglass insulation, aluminum straps, broken glass and splintered plywooin a huge rectangular mold, which he filled with detritus scavenged from industrial dumps and urban garbage heaps: PVC pipes, shredded tires, carpet padding, fiberglass insulation, aluminum straps, broken glass and splintered plywood.

The works in the show contain familiar elements from city landscapes, such as scaffolding, urban detritus, abandoned buildings, and public gardens, all addressing the hurried transformation of cityscapes closely related to gentrification.

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.

Each artist in the exhibition transforms the detritus or overlooked objects of our daily, urban backdrop into an unfamiliar, and tantalizing new object or situation.»

Rather than paint in the conventional sense of the term, Bradford takes the detritus of urban visual culture as the conduit through which life enters art.

Artists created charged works by juxtaposing disparate images sourced largely from popular media, such as Hannah Höch's 1930 photomontage Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman's Head), a work of layered images from magazines that speaks to the representation of women in popular culture, and Kurt Schwitters» Mz 426 Figures (1922), an assemblage of discarded newspaper and printed detritus, which evokes the urban environment in which he lived.

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).

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».

In New Zealand, Luke Willis Thompson's project inthisholeonthisislandwhereiam (2012) has quickly become part of urban folklore: it involved taking a taxi from Hopkinson Cundy Gallery, Auckland, and driving to a seemingly abandoned old house in order to wander around it, looking at the detritus of someone's lifIn New Zealand, Luke Willis Thompson's project inthisholeonthisislandwhereiam (2012) has quickly become part of urban folklore: it involved taking a taxi from Hopkinson Cundy Gallery, Auckland, and driving to a seemingly abandoned old house in order to wander around it, looking at the detritus of someone's lifin order to wander around it, looking at the detritus of someone's life.

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.

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From a second - floor studio in Brooklyn that overlooks the warehouses and scrap yards that skirt the Gowanus Canal, 26 - year - old Dennison assembles sculptures that resemble urban core samples or creatures spawned from detritus.