Sentences with phrase «urban detritus with»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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.»

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.

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 plywood.

Susan Smith's timeless constructions, on view at Junior Projects through February 27, fuse the detritus of urban demolition with a Minimalist aesthetic, making order out of chaos and wittily evoking the Modern masters of De Stjil and later monochromists, such as Robert Ryman and Brice Marden.

With Helter Skelter I, Mark Bradford puts forward a statement of heroic ambition that takes the detritus found on the streets of Los Angeles to subtly reflect on the history, social structures and lived experiences of the artist's urban environment.

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».

Calligraphy drawn from the age of satellites beaming and technology blaring, Keith Sonnier's sculptures, urban neon and country trash, fuse the detritus of popular western culture with the suggestiveness of eastern imagery.

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.

It also coincided with Assemblage art - artwork made out of fragments of «found» objects such as household debris, urban detritus - indeed any (usually recognizable) materials, large or small.