Sentences with phrase «utilitarian objects in»

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

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.

The works on exhibition appear to be a radical departure from Mathison's practice of casting iconic, utilitarian objects in concrete, ceramic and iron, then presenting them in a tableau that questions individual agency in basic acts of work.

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

Not exact matches

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.

When one thinks of this object, operated in its originally intended, utilitarian manner, a picture begins to form in the minds eye.

This is done using great attention to craft in sculptures that elevate simple utilitarian forms, that are themselves utilitarian, or made from found objects.

In the exhibition, a complex set of relations is produced between a series of utilitarian objects, the multiple possibilities they suggest, and the people that activate and produce them.

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.

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.

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 ChristmaIn 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 Christmain today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmas.

Particularly interested in overlooked or overused objects and spaces — from bollards, mini-golf courses and roadside shrines to communal washrooms, military watchtowers and other indiscernible utilitarian forms — she replicates them in works highlighting the uncertain nature of the neat geometry of the world around us.

That notion is here realized in a concatenation of such utilitarian objects as a shovel, a bicycle wheel, and a bottle rack.

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.

While abstract at its core, Von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects — such as the artist's collection of household vessels — and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man - made meets nature.

He was not interested in fabricating utilitarian objects, such as the workers» uniforms designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko or the teacups and saucers made by second - rate Productivists.

With a solo show at L.A.'s Hammer Museum under his belt, the Seattle - born artist shows large - scale objects that balance architecture, sculpture, and installation; surveillance and the utilitarian design demands of the American West are strong undercurrents throughout the work, on view for the artist's first show with the gallery in Paris.

The exhibition opened with MoMA's first decade, including such iconic works as Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad (acquired in 1930), Paul Cézanne's The Bather (acquired in 1934) Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space (acquired in 1934), as well as Walker Evans's Posed Portraits, New York (acquired in 1938), Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (acquired in 1936), and utilitarian, machine - made objects, such as an outboard propeller, a flush valve, and a self - aligning ball bearing (acquired in 1934).

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

What appears to be a utilitarian object meant for functionality is a poetic sculptural gesture, and what looks to be the seductive swath of glitter reveals itself to be corporeal fluid hardened in a new form.

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.»

Jillian Mayer: Slumpies a body of sculptures that function as utilitarian objects, presented on PAMM's outdoor terrace as well as in the Vattikuti Learning Theater on the museum's first floor Routes of Influence juxtaposes artworks in a manner that maps how aesthetic concepts move fluidly across traditional, national or cultural lines, how «influence» in art is understood today as multi-directional, rather than linear in character.

I have had a longtime interest in seemingly ordinary everyday objects such as collectible and utilitarian items.

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

Tran's practice is defined by the use of artifacts found in passed - over places and in this exhibition he inventively recombines common utilitarian objects to make them decorative and strange.

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

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

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.

The subtly altered forms become a sculptural proposition cloaking itself as a utilitarian object that should be placed in a salt mine until the year 2300 to see what people make of it.

In the late 1960s, Guston's abstractions gradually evolved into stark, semi-figurative forms, beginning with heads and later simple, utilitarian objects, such as books, light bulbs, and shoes.

In addition to the traditional galleries in the Main Section, the fair will also invite 19 galleries to present solo projects by artists under the age of 35 in New Proposals, 21 galleries presenting work that confronts social identity in the world in Zona MACO South, 6 galleries focusing on Modern Art, and 22 galleries that fuse art and design by presenting limited editions of utilitarian objectIn addition to the traditional galleries in the Main Section, the fair will also invite 19 galleries to present solo projects by artists under the age of 35 in New Proposals, 21 galleries presenting work that confronts social identity in the world in Zona MACO South, 6 galleries focusing on Modern Art, and 22 galleries that fuse art and design by presenting limited editions of utilitarian objectin the Main Section, the fair will also invite 19 galleries to present solo projects by artists under the age of 35 in New Proposals, 21 galleries presenting work that confronts social identity in the world in Zona MACO South, 6 galleries focusing on Modern Art, and 22 galleries that fuse art and design by presenting limited editions of utilitarian objectin New Proposals, 21 galleries presenting work that confronts social identity in the world in Zona MACO South, 6 galleries focusing on Modern Art, and 22 galleries that fuse art and design by presenting limited editions of utilitarian objectin the world in Zona MACO South, 6 galleries focusing on Modern Art, and 22 galleries that fuse art and design by presenting limited editions of utilitarian objectin Zona MACO South, 6 galleries focusing on Modern Art, and 22 galleries that fuse art and design by presenting limited editions of utilitarian objects.

In these photographs, utilitarian and natural objects have been stacked, coiled, balanced and held, obstructing the subject and forming classical geometric compositions.

An architect and designer who specialized in shop and restaurant interiors, which are by nature ephemeral, and furniture and utilitarian objects, Kuramata brought a lyrical dreaminess to his work that proves infectious even after the unreality of Japan's «bubble economy» for which it was created has long since burst.

Tiravanija produced this utilitarian object, a set of three benches that together form the message «IOU,» out of mirror - polished stainless steel and in a limited edition of 20.

Cragg's transformative relationship to form, surface, scale, volume, his interest in providing an alternative to the utilitarian realm, and his synthetic approach to object making has brought constant innovation to the language of sculpture.

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.

EXHIBITION ART 358 UTILITARIAN SCULPTURE by students in Nick Hunsinger's class Aug. 21 — Sept. 8, 2017 Commons Gallery Exhibition Information: ART 358 Utilitarian Sculpture is a class focused on teaching students how to design and create functional objects oUTILITARIAN SCULPTURE by students in Nick Hunsinger's class Aug. 21 — Sept. 8, 2017 Commons Gallery Exhibition Information: ART 358 Utilitarian Sculpture is a class focused on teaching students how to design and create functional objects oUtilitarian Sculpture is a class focused on teaching students how to design and create functional objects out of wood.

With their contrasting white pitched roofs and black bases, the toilets, especially in the bright primary colors chosen by Slominski, transform from ordinary utilitarian objects into playful sites of refuge.

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.

In the context of Condorelli's exhibition, friendship characterised the complex set of relations produced between a series of utilitarian objects, the multiple possibilities they suggest, and the people that activate and produce them.

She explores (and generates) feminist narratives and counter-narratives that cast the role of the art object in new light, introducing utilitarian, symbolic, and even mystical possibilities in contexts that are often limited to formalist readings.

In 1995, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski curated an exhibition Take Me (I'm Yours) that had brought together thirteen international artists with an extraordinary selection of works functioning on two levels — as utilitarian objects and as artworks.

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.

The exhibition features a rich cross-section of works across several mediums — opening with displays of pioneering non-objective paintings, prints, and drawings from the years leading up to and immediately following the Revolution, followed by a suite of galleries featuring photography, film, graphic design, and utilitarian objects, a transition that reflects the shift of avant - garde production in the 1920s.

In this national juried exhibition, functional art refers to aesthetic objects that serve a utilitarian purpose — how the artist expresses him / herself in items such as clothing, textiles, jewelry, tableware, tools, fixtures and furniturIn this national juried exhibition, functional art refers to aesthetic objects that serve a utilitarian purpose — how the artist expresses him / herself in items such as clothing, textiles, jewelry, tableware, tools, fixtures and furniturin items such as clothing, textiles, jewelry, tableware, tools, fixtures and furniture.

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

From that point assemblage art became the term linked to the specific technique of creating two - and three - dimensional works of art through the fusion of elements derived from natural and manufactured sources, often found objects and fragments of objects, that otherwise were intended to serve a more utilitarian purpose, rather than winding up in a work of art.

Utilitarian objects, such as these mother - of - pearl - handle knives found on eBay, become prized collectibles in the homeowner's dreamy Swedish style.