Best known for his re-creations of iconic images from visual culture made
using nontraditional materials and recorded with a camera, Muniz here strips the work of representational imagery, in a direct exploration of the illusionist strategies and material processes that he has developed over the course of his career.
He immediately became disillusioned with the pretensions of Abstract Expressionists and decided to paint and construct works
using nontraditional materials.
This led him to reject certain formal conventions, eschewing sketches and often
using nontraditional materials, like house paint.
In his best - known works, Robert Rauschenberg
used nontraditional materials, including found objects, to produce provocative pieces that he called combines.
In each case, the artist
used nontraditional materials to create what appears to be a traditional art object.
Not exact matches
This celebration of creative, costumed, spirited performers has informed the artist's multimedia art practice, including the
use of
nontraditional recycled
materials.
Dodd
uses a range of
nontraditional materials in her paintings, which are at once out of control and perfectly composed.
The work
uses fabric, plastic and feathers, reflecting her
use of
nontraditional materials as well as the contemporary trend to reach beyond the usual media.
As peculiar and unconventional as it was, Process art inevitably led its members towards the
use of
nontraditional, uncommon
materials such as latex, wax, felt, grass, fire, broken glass.
Once there, he radicalized sculpture with
nontraditional materials, brilliant color and, most of all, simple geometric forms that
used more space than
materials.
In the series, which references the «blue hour» between daylight and dark, he portrays 20th - century art historical icons that are sculpted and cast from
nontraditional materials, which would be self - obliterating if ever
used for their intended purpose.
Traditional offerings of quilts, weavings, knits, and crochet are available, as well as innovative art that
uses fiber techniques with
nontraditional materials, such as metals, glass, wood, and clay.
Based on the works of contemporary Southern California artists such as Larry Bell and John McCracken, students will
use new,
nontraditional materials as artistic mediums to analyze the effects of light, space, and surface on their compositions.
The solo show includes 50 works ranging from 1968 to the present that encompass a range of mediums and highlight her early contributions to process - based sculpture and Land Art along with her
use of
nontraditional natural
materials and her passion for photography.
An essay by conservation scientist Narayan Khandekar explores the artist's
use of organic and
nontraditional materials, particularly with regard to the conservation challenges they pose.
Mixed - media installations by Anila Quayyum Agha, Soo Sunny Park, Mickalene Thomas, and Heather Gordon
use low - tech,
nontraditional materials.