Pre-print: Half - lives of PAHs and temporal microbiota changes in commonly
used urban landscaping materials — Marja I Roslund — PeerJ
An avid traveler, Gabriel Orozco
uses the urban landscape and the everyday objects found within it to twist conventional notions of reality and engage the imagination of the viewer.
Daniel Preece Daniel's work
uses the urban landscape to explore geometry and colour.
Gabriel Orozco
uses the urban landscape and everyday objects to twist conventional notions of reality.
Not exact matches
About Sibley Square WinnDevelopment is reshaping Downtown Rochester with a multi-year project to transform Sibley Square into a vibrant, mixed -
use urban center, featuring the best apartment homes in Rochester, Class - A office space, green living, elegant
landscaping, premier security systems and centralized transportation.
He previously taught and conducted research on water conservation in irrigated
urban landscapes and the water
use behaviors of woody and herbaceous plants.
She is an
urban ecologist who
uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to understand how
landscape patterns affect ecosystem services in cities.
The idea that adjacent structures will be numbered sequentially, or that streets will be named and numbered in a way that is easy to
use and quick to memorise, seems essential — a prerequisite for a functioning
urban landscape.
Using historical and sociological sources, this course examines the government role in bankrolling the suburbs, desegregating schools, the rise of school choice through magnets and charters, and how the current desegregation of inner ring suburbs and
urban gentrification are affecting the
landscape of education reform.
For example, an editor might
use these keywords to describe a mystery suspense novel: «noir atmosphere,» «
urban settings,» «world - weary protagonists,» «harsh realism,» «psychological depth,» «wistful poetry,» «atmospheric,» «
urban landscape,» «violent portrait.»
The official description of «The Neighborhood» reads as follows, «In The Neighborhood, players will work their way through a restrained 2D
urban cityscape,
using music and magic to unleash a vibrant and magical 3D environment by interacting with billboards, rooftops, trains and other surprises hidden within the city
landscape.»
Chinese artist Ji Zhou creates mountains and
urban landscapes using maps and books.
Using simple geometric shapes Kusanagi subtly implies the windows and architectural planes that create the familiar geography of
urban landscapes.
For his upcoming show at Honor Fraser, the Los Angeles native will
use a similar method to present re-formulations of found objects from the
urban L.A.
landscape, as part of a larger exhibition that also includes quirky assemblages that integrate gym locker room fixtures and objects inspired by the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Inside the gallery, in its second room, drawings, maquettes of Wilson's past works, along with the intervention
using the cut up household furniture which has been reassembled again into a form reminiscent of an
urban landscape on a micro scale, will be presented.
The modern
urban landscape has, since the the birth of the industrialised society, been shaped through the
use of mechanised systems of communication and mass production.
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, a two - part exhibition on view at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, presents a range of work from the mid-1990s to today by the artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b. 1959), who
uses allegorical methods to explore the cyclical nature of change in modernizing societies, the
urban landscape, and patterns of economic progress.
Using freeway systems as the investigative constant, thiese paintings and drawings attempt to recreate the pure structure of
urban landscape.
Using commonplace mechanical devices, Chen describes a logical drift: the experience of being lost in thought, tracing a dérive through the
urban landscape.
For Triple Point, the artist
uses elements from the
urban landscape of Venice such as photographs of stone, leaves from the Giardini, tickets from the Vaporetto.
Opie is an artist of contemporary life,
using urban and rural
landscapes, as well as moving figures, to bring time - honoured artistic genres into the twenty - first century.
In the US, particularly influenced by Abstract Expressionism, photographers like Aaron Siskind, who documented graffiti, or Harry Callahan, who creatively
used double exposure, moved from documentary to intrinsic qualities of photography, exploring
urban landscape.
In her woodcuts and monoprints, Dominique Ellis
uses abstract patterns, textures, colloquial speech, and vibrant colors to reimagine abandoned spaces in the
urban landscape of Philadelphia.
Using aerial news footage of the devastation in Texas and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina (2005), as well as the floods in Missouri and Mississippi (2008), this latest animation by Wise presents a complex interaction of
urban forms, nature, and
landscape.
Using straightforward pattern, line, and repetition common in textiles, the artists featured combine hard - edged configurations with soft material in an attempt to define a physical, personal space within the sub /
urban landscape.
Battersea Power Station always
used to represent London to me but it's been enveloped by a load of expensive glass apartments now, with no regard for its silhouette on the
urban landscape.
With this body of work, she explored
using gouache on paper (as opposed to predominately oil on canvas paintings in previous exhibitions) and depicted
urban landscapes in both daylight and moonlight.
Staged in K11 Art Foundation's pop - up venue, a space previously
used to show future building projects that continue to change the
urban landscape around Hong Kong, HACK SPACE forms an alternative hacker narrative, weaving moments from the history of western hacker activity with artworks that rethink space through unconventional methodologies of making and thinking.
Interested in the physical space of the city and its emotional and psychological impact on the body, she
uses the camera to transform the physical space into a psychological one, providing a personal interpretation of the
urban landscape.
While the
urban landscape continues to be a source of inspiration, Comas has recently added new elements through the
use of photography and technology.
Sidhi Rajesh Parikh
uses slum visuals in Dharavi, India to highlight not only the design aspect of the areas but also to contain and understand the
urban landscape.
If in the first instance she poses questions about the current state of the construction, development,
use, and decay of spaces that are apparently peripheral to the city, in the second she manages to provoke a dialogue about the different elements that make up the physical reality of the
urban landscape, in its constant transformation through demolitions, excavations, construction materials, and contemporary ruins.
His work focuses on the transformations of the
urban landscape — researching the possible future scenarios and outcomes
using photography.
Using bright colours and bold outlines, they expressed their radical politics in modern people
landscapes (c. 1908) and, from 1911 onwards,
urban townscapes.
It focuses on the experimental transformation of shapes and surfaces that make up the
urban landscape, from which the three artists draw their inspiration from; Fabio Petani with his refined balance between organic forms and geometry, Nelio through a dense texture of colour fields that he
uses to compose his name, and Heiko Zahlmann, with a long and vaunted past as a graffiti writer, evolves his style in three - dimensional works, in which painting, drawing and architecture interact with one another.
In this transformation of the «intimate proportions» of the woman's body into
landscape - like abstract composition, de Kooning pursued a strategy similar to that of his friend Franz Kline, who
used an opaque projector to enlarge details of his own
urban genre paintings into the mural - scale, black - and - white abstractions that became his signature achievement» (J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning, New York, 2014, p. 132).
Socio -
urban and architectural theory has argued that space is not self - evident, rather that it is socially produced; we produce the city, the digital
landscape, office waiting rooms, the postal system, the nation and its territory by the way we live in and occupy it,
use it, by what we wait for in it, send through it, and the violence we
use to try to control it.
Using familiar objects such as lampposts (his first iteration created in 1999), telephone booths, vespas and flagpoles, his work is often a reference to the
urban landscape.
New Yorker Jorge Colombo sketches the
urban landscape of his adopted city on his iPhone
using an application called «Brushes.»
Establishing a plant - animal - people trilogy with the Edible Estates (est. 2005) series of front yard food gardens and the Animal Estates (est. 2008) initiatives for
urban wildlife architecture, Domestic Integrities (est. 2012) turns its attention inward to local patterns and rituals of interior domestic
landscapes and the way we
use what we resourcefully find around us to artfully make ourselves at home.
He
uses found materials like flyers from a lamppost, but deploys them in deconstructed bits for
use in his layered, textured multimedia works, creating what L.A. Times critic Carolina Miranda has called «works that channel
urban landscapes that have been constructed and obliterated, only to be constructed and obliterated again.»
Jenny Brillhart creates an architectural intervention by making
use of features available in the
urban landscape that reflect their own nature and purpose.
McCarthy
uses an innovative video technique to create a fictional,
urban canyon, Parzybok builds exquisite little worlds out of familiar objects, and Rajakumar appropriates specific moments of animated
landscapes.
With references to the early digital visuals of science fiction movies, blueprints and forced perspectival drawings, his
urban landscapes explore hidden structures
using surprisingly analog techniques.
The steel bars represent ubiquitous material in
urban landscapes — often
used to fence people out, or in.
Artist Mark Lewis explores the
use of space, architecture and the
urban landscape of Toronto in his exhibition Invention.
An ode to New York City's
landscape, this film
uses photograph mattes to partially cover the camera lens, creating narrow vertical strips that offer glimpses of
urban life and captures the syncopated rhythm and texture of the city.
Beginning with his first major commissioned work, «Time
Landscapes» in Greenwich Village, NYC, Sonfist received critical acclaim for his innovative
use of
urban spaces to design havens of nature and green art.
I signed myself up, then went to hear James Birch an organic farmer who
used to help
urban homeowners in LA convert their gardens and
landscapes into organic food gardens — from Flora Bella Farms in Three Rivers, Calif..
The heat generated by heating, cooling, transport and other energy
uses also contributes, particularly in winter, as does the complex three dimensional structure of the
urban landscape.