Sentences with phrase «urban surfaces»

The artist best known for her New York Beautification Project — 40 lozenge - shaped miniature landscapes illicitly painted on urban surfaces in public spaces around New York City from 1999 to 2001 — has gone legit and gone indoors with Mirror, a site - specific installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Modifying the roofs with light - colored tiles, the team found that using light - colored concrete, or applying white glazes to buildings, could increase the reflectivity of urban surfaces by 10 %.

The 5 - inch wheels are made of high quality hard rubber, and while the wheels do not lock straight, they have an all - wheel suspension system called Soft Drive, which really does glide over urban surfaces smoothly.

While the countryside freely radiates its daily heat after dusk, urban surfaces retain heat long into the night, leading to what is called an «urban heat island».

The lizards, which have been observed to evolve rapidly in the wild, appear to have evolved to cling to and walk on often slippery urban surfaces.

You'll notice the car patter over scruffy urban surfaces, while Sport Plus mode is too firm for a typical British B - road.

Concrete, naked steel reinforcement (rebar) and other do - it - yourself materials invoke the physical reality of contemporary urban surfaces.

Lehr examines urban surfaces and facades with tripod - mounted cameras.

Tied to the concerns of art history's overlapping meanings through the visage of street art and photography, Rice's rich tableau of selections call to the forefront of our imaginations the content of our most common urban surfaces: the exclamations of culture found on every wall.

Frequently taking on closed in shots of hand painted signage, politically - fueled graffiti, and weathered urban surfaces as his subject matter, Siskind is most known for his mythic compositions that at times bear a striking resemblance to the work of important twentieth century Abstract Expressionist painters.

Grosse, who typically uses industrial spray guns to apply brilliant color directly upon the walls, ceilings, and floors of museums, looks forward to the challenge of painting on outdoor, gritty urban surfaces that thousands of passengers zoom past every day.

The impetus behind these incentives is the hope that green roofs will reduce the «urban heat island effect» — a phenomenon created primarily by urban surfaces such as pavement and conventional roofs that absorb solar energy and re-radiate it as heat.

Barry McGee (b. 1966) has inhabited the two distinct worlds of graffiti and gallery - based art for over two decades, advocating a kind of graffiti that even the art world does not like: tags inscribed illicitly on urban surfaces.

According to Italcementi, an Italian maker of photocatalytic cement, the airborne pollution of a large city could be cut in half if pollution - reducing cement were to cover just 15 percent of urban surfaces.

by Walter Chaw The urban surfaces of Americana are lent the sheen of Edward Hopper's neon isolationism by cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchía in the appropriately named Confidence, which finds director James Foley back on noir ground, where his footing is firmest.

Scratch beneath the urban surface of the Territory's capital and you'll discover a rich Aboriginal legacy.

If you are one for extreme sports or you are the kinda street rider that sees any urban surface area as a pro trail then this game will have you entertained for hours.

The exhibition also presents works by Absalon, Pep Agut, Jordi Colomer, Sigalit Landau, Rita McBride, Charlotte Posenenske, Doris Salcedo and Gregor Schneider, which reflect on the urban surface, collective memory, the home and domestic space, given critical meaning as space as a form.

His process often involved pasting a sketch to the canvas — which lent his work a physicality that reflected the urban surfaces of his artistic origins.

The nine color photographs in John Lehr's recent exhibition «Low Relief» look like luscious but simple shots of chanced - upon urban surfaces — walls, doors, windows, grates — enriched by incidental...

In the presentation, Akbari calculates that every 10 m2 of urban surface that is converted from a dark, solar absorbing color to a light, reflective color effectively offsets the heating effect of one ton of CO2 in the atmosphere.

This is due to a number of factors, including: the different thermal properties of urban surfaces (paved surfaces and buildings release some of the heat they absorb during the day into the surrounding environment during the evening); the presence of artificial heat sources; and the rapid removal of surface moisture via drainage systems.