Sentences with phrase «utilitarian materials in»

The exhibition explores the uses of plywood and other utilitarian materials in art and furniture design.

His employment of industrial and utilitarian materials in subversive techniques comment on rapid shift in aesthetic standards and public's response to constant flow of visual data.

Not exact matches

For all its significance, celluloid had a fairly modest place in the material world of the early twentieth century, limited mainly to novelties and small decorative and utilitarian items, like the comb.

Lol, I don't really that much, but I do kind of remember sitting through a Survey Of Fashion lecture in college where we discussed the implications and impact of the war on clothing and costume, how garments were made to be more streamlined, simplistic and utilitarian due to such restrictions and limited materials.

While it's pretty utilitarian in design, the materials are just chic enough to make it special.

Advanced driver assistance systems, significant suspension and steering improvements, and available intelligent AWD vastly improve the Kia Sportage's driving dynamics while premium materials and world - class craftsmanship create a class - up experience in an otherwise utilitarian segment.

Specially constructed facilities range from small, utilitarian spaces in obscure areas to entire rooms with finish materials that match nearby human restrooms.

Allow yourself to be amazed by this 5 - star hotel's architecture, inspired by a utilitarian style, which will take you back in time to the 17th century, a testament to how such a universal material can be fashionable and retain its value over time.

Fiber and Form: The Woman's Legacy, focuses on seven female artists who have consistently incorporated the act of sewing and / or fiber in their two and three dimensional works, celbrating the female artist's inclination to sew and the reinterpretation of traditional utilitarian materials including linen, leather, cotton, burlap, and lace.

The physicality and tactility of the surfaces of the works — guided by the materials and processes involved in their creation — offer a uniquely visual experience of surfaces that desire to be touched and held, replicating the tactile attraction of their utilitarian predecessors.

Known for using utilitarian household items and placing them out of context, Yang has employed materials from space heaters to extension cords in her works.

In Braman's sculptures she riffs on the Minimalist cube, playfully subverting its pristine aesthetic by incorporating utilitarian materials — cardboard boxes, domestic and office furnishings — into her tilting, multi-part works.

Following his 2015 retrospective at Nasher Sculpture Center in Texas, the exhibition introduces three - dimensional mixed - media works in which utilitarian and labor - related materials such as tools, chains, and barbed wire blend and form narratives on identity, heritage, and belonging.

As an artist interested in mining the dense marks and language of the urban environment, married with a concern for contemporary abstract painting, the easiest thing in the world would be to embrace a provisional aesthetic of rough materials and utilitarian supports.

Steve Turner Contemporary is pleased to present Marriage Material, a solo exhibition by New York - based artist Aaron Aujla in which the artist explores the values that he deems fundamental to effective interior design — the division of space and the amalgamation of utilitarian and sculptural ideals.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

He depicts these notions through the use of found domestic and utilitarian objects and materials to form sculptures, drawings, and prints that generate visual puns and cultural overtones, while also aiming to highlight how these objects portray and mimic language, specifically Spanglish — the rhythmic convergence of two languages spoken in Latin - American homes.

In aiming to combine vanity with pragmatism, Aujla uses materials that are made for utilitarian function but which also have aesthetic value.

Each of the artists involved uses everyday materials in innovative ways to explore and explain the mysterious and beautiful, whether it is the experience of the human body, the properties of light, or the reimagining of utilitarian materials.

Burri innovatively used the discarded debris of everyday life and utilitarian materials such as tar, sheet metal, plastic, and wood which he transformed by tearing and stitching, burning and pulling, giving the appearance that his only intervention was to bring out the natural colors, textures, and shapes already inherent in the material.

The latest in the Hayward Gallery's traveling series of shows curated by British contemporary artists (a program initiated in 1991, when Deanna Petherbridge installed The Primacy of Drawing: An Artist's View), Leckey's exhibition draws on a wide range of material, both historical and contemporary, utilitarian and artistic to consider the «magical world of new technology.»

The works create an intriguing tension around the questions of using so much material for these nonfunctional objects that masquerade in the form of almost utilitarian objects.

Drawing with the bungees in three - dimensional space, Roa stretches the utilitarian materials tightly from opposing points within the gallery.

«At first glance my work my appear oddly familiar or utilitarian,» says Holmes in her artist statement, «but on closer inspection of the materials and their re-contextualization, the viewer may need to reconsider initial ideas as they discover more layers of meaning.»

Mari has written: «For me, each design must be utilitarian, functional and do justice to the materials used as well as those involved in making them.»

Unusual metals, such as brass, copper and pewter, and utilitarian materials, such as poured concrete, tap into the trend for muted colour palettes, as well as providing a layer of texture in even the sleekest of schemes.