Sentences with phrase «utilitarian objects»

Nicole Cherubini's (b. 1970) work deconstructs notions of utilitarian objects in relation to clay.

Traditionally painted by the women of the tribes, parfleche were made as utilitarian objects for the Native Americans themselves to carry things like clothes, tools, food, and medicine on horseback — and as souvenirs sold to European Americans touring the West.

Inspired equally by Abstract Expressionism and fashion, Mack integrates function with form in his work, using pegboards, moving blankets and other utilitarian objects in lyrical and unexpected ways.

Named for a genre of North American folk art in which everyday utilitarian objects such as vases are coated with a claylike substance and then embedded with small objects including shells, beads and buttons, Kelley's Memory Ware series consists both of wall - hung works (known as Memory Ware Flats) and freestanding pieces.

Picasso's avant - garde cubism is put to the service of utilitarian objects with humble intentions.

In these works, blue gazing balls, hand blown from glass, have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmas.

Recent projects include Another Utopia (2015), a year - long project culminating in an installation and film exploring the squatting and housing co-operative movement of the 70's and 80's in London, and The Potential Space (2014), a film looking at parallels between making utilitarian objects and artistic practice, developed with members of Friends of Cathja, a charity that supports people experiencing mental health issues.

To round out the fair, the Design section is curated by industrial designer and curator Cecilia León de la Barra who will link the art and design worlds with limited editions of utilitarian objects by cutting edge designers.

Von Rydingsvard's organic, gesturally potent works allude to the landscape, body, and common utilitarian objects such as spoons, shovels, and bowls.

One of the school's objectives was to design and produce unique utilitarian objects for use in daily modern life.

The root of the word poetry is the Greek word to make and it has reference to the making of pots and pans and houses and barns and fences and other utilitarian objects.

I was primarily making drawings of utilitarian objects on large sheets of graph paper.

Hand - blown from glass, the blue gazing balls have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban and rural landscape, such as mailboxes and a birdbath.

Over the past four decades, his work has been variously described as Pop Art, because of its derivation from utilitarian objects and incorporation of commercial and industrial materials; as Minimal Art, because of its geometric forms and solid presence; and as Conceptual Art, because of its cool and cerebral detachment.

Fleming's sculptural work is often based on manufactured utilitarian objects with varied significance in his daily life or of notable influence to his artistic practice.

A skirted café curtain hides utilitarian objects without detracting from decor.

Gallery On Collection Tiki (1-9-10 Ebisu - Minami, Shibuya - ku, 3711 - 8678) epitomizes contemporary Japanese design with stone floors, wood slab tables and a changing roster of shows that usually feature utilitarian objects such as carved bowls or handblown glassware.

Later, he would present utilitarian objects like chairs, tables and a suitcase, stripped of their function and thus exaggerating the objects» pure shapes.

Perhaps simultaneously his piece evokes the heritage of Mingei visual culture that refashioned daily utilitarian objects into objects considered «beautiful.»

Ryan Fenchel's paintings depict vessels — universal, utilitarian objects used by every ancient culture.

Dine, by now considered an important young artist of the period, continued to produce highly evocative works involving the paraphernalia of everyday life — paintings and constructions of robes, household utensils, ties, toothbrushes and utilitarian objects placed like props in front of various colored canvases.

Brooklyn - based artist Wissemann mines utilitarian objects (like feather dusters, bristle brushes, and wheels from a filing cabinet) to develop playful sculptures that confound distinctions between art, design, and decor.

His work is untimely in the best sense, infused with nostalgia for an age (part historical, part mythical) when utilitarian objects were not just finely made but had a sacred aura.

The resulting sculptures play a game of visual deception as the handmade simulates that which is industrially fabricated: Wood disguises itself as metal and plastic, and sculpture takes the form of a seemingly utilitarian object.

On the other hand, each object is in the end just an ordinary bowl, spoon, knife, or some other purely utilitarian object.

In the aptly titled exhibition, the artist introduces low relief sculptures and drawings to comment on cultural and psychological undertones of furnitures, not only as mundane utilitarian objects, but also as witnesses and vessels of human experience.

The Art Center first exhibited her work in 1987 as part of a three - person exhibition also organized by Richard Born who then described her tapestries as «simultaneously utilitarian objects and works of independent beauty intended both for use and appreciation at the same time.»

The title of the exhibition refers to the philosophical ethos of Mingei which champions the everyday, ordinary and utilitarian objects created by nameless and unknown craftsmen.

Signer's materials tend to be the immediate utilitarian objects and Swiss landscapes that are a part of his lived experience, yet the manner in which he uses them is anything but banal.

Alexandre da Cunha's new work combines utilitarian objects and traditional sculptural methods of carving and moulding to create ambitious new structures.

However rather than re-presenting utilitarian objects in a metamorphosed but equally utilitarian state these quotidian elements are now presented as rarefied and discreet works of art.

They're really utilitarian objects that make you feel like it's okay to write something down in them.»

Without today's increasingly active craft - oriented community, products that we take for granted, such as numerous utilitarian objects built from handmade tools, rather than via machine or sweatshop, would have disappeared.

A painting of hoes and shovels leaning against a wall bears the whimsical title Brotherly Ties, reflecting Clark's ability to humanize the simple utilitarian objects, eliciting an appreciation for their purpose.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Memory Ware = North American folk art in which every day utilitarian objects, are embedded with small objects including shells, beads, and buttons.

Her art often resembles utilitarian objects such as tools, which act as an anchor to another, more tactile and physical era.

By turns witty, poetic and outrageous, these designers reinterpret utilitarian objects in ways that upend expectations and delight the...

He is a Minimalist, interested in form, hard - edged geometry and the passing of American simulacra; a Pop artist, incorporating utilitarian objects and industrial materials to mock pictorial illusion; a Photo Realist, neutrally depicting found photographs; and a Conceptualist, concerned with philosophical space, its arrangements and the way it functions in our memories.

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.

That was our major breakthrough: raising utilitarian objects to the level of art objects.

Fleming's sculptural work is often based on manufactured utilitarian objects with varied significance in his daily life or of notable influence to his artistic... More

Finish off the look and hide utilitarian objects with a skirted curtain.

Mingei is a philosophy which «assigned value to and saw beauty in simple, anonymously produced utilitarian objects, signifying a revaluation of popular crafts in the midst of the industrial revolution.»

Two works by conceptual artist William Anastasi feature everyday utilitarian objects — a radiator and a block and tackle, neither of which are working but both of which are accompanied by recorded sounds you would associate with them.