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

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

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.

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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.

Museum of Arts & Design showcases objects that toy with our expectations about a utilitarian material Read More

Some objects retain a trace of the original human touch or utilitarian function, whereas others are so smeared with paint, dirt and hair that their origin is maskedduring the creative process.

Mingei was an influential part of an international Arts and Crafts movement that responded to the mechanization of industrial production with a complex respect for low culture, folk produced utilitarian objects of daily usage, and mass produced objects of simple and beautiful design.

Many of his works play with the forms of utilitarian objects and take a «finish fetish» approach to commercial and industrial materials not typically used by artists of his generation.

Leyden Rodriguez - Casanova challenges the absoluteness of psychological and utilitarian narratives associated with our utilization and memory of everyday objects.

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 Christmas.

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.

«The New - York Historical Society explores how shoes have transcended their utilitarian purpose to become representations of culture — coveted as objects of desire, designed with artistic consideration, and expressing complicated meanings of femininity, power, and aspiration for women and men alike.

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 PaWith 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 Pawith 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).

The result is a work of art composed of multiple objects that were once singular and utilitarian and are now presented as one work that is imbued with entirely different aesthetic and conceptual qualities.

She often combines ceramic elements, beautifully handcrafted, with utilitarian items, such as toilet plungers or buckets, to create pieces that call into question the cultural and historic meaning of particular objects or images.

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.

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.

The ceramic objects are often echoes of utilitarian objects or replacing the action of the body with a strong connection to psychoanalytic theory as well as art history.

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition brought together artists from Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria and America with an extraordinary selection of works that functioned on two levels — as utilitarian objects and as works of art.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leonard's approach to photography engages with its history as a utilitarian, vernacular, and popular medium; similarly, her sculptures are often composed of found objects — commonplace items that bear signs of their use.

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.