Sentences with phrase «vernacular art»

The exquisite lines of her hand - cut paper silhouettes speak to centuries of vernacular art tradition in the United States and Europe.

By the mid-1990s Arnett's efforts culminated in an ambitious survey exhibition of this tradition titled Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, presented in conjunction with the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and in partnership with the City of Atlanta and the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University.

Whether rough - hewn beauties in earth tones or frenetic explosions of bright color, they reveal influences from southern vernacular art traditions and muralists such as Keith Haring.

Without formal training (in Lockett's case, deliberately so) and working largely with found materials, Lockett, Dial, Holley and peers like Joe Minter took their visual language from traditional black Southern vernacular art forms like the scrap quilt and the yard show but adapted it to speak of personal philosophies, social issues and the African - American experience.

Zucker: Jürgen Becker, a dealer from Hamburg, once told me something interesting about vernacular art.

Taking Bo Bardi's love of Brazilian vernacular art as her inspiration, and with a nod to the elegant furniture she created for the Casa de Vidro, Neuenschwander presents a set of found, handmade stools — one from a street seller in Bahia, north Brazil, where Lina spent some of the most fulfilling years of her professional life; one found in a carpark; another fished from a skip.

WILLIAM EDMONDSON, «Boxer,» circa 1936 (Limestone), was offered in Christie's Liberation through Expression: Outsider and Vernacular Art auction in New York.

Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's «Folk Archive» [2000 — 07], a collection of recent and contemporary British vernacular art, would be another.

In addition to her major work on Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, she has organized exhibitions and written essays on religious visionary art, vernacular art environments, and the works of such artists as Howard Finster, Bill Traylor, Lonnie Holley, Anna Zemankova, Eddie Arning, William Hawkins, and Josephus Farmer.

The painter Todd Norsten, who is both an enthusiastic traveler and avid outdoorsman, has a deep appreciation for vernacular art and architecture.

Dr. Bean also works on the early modern period and on vernacular arts, particularly textiles and ceramics.

In a contemporary British context, Turk's works also help to fuel the insatiable desire for the latest vernacular art shock.

By casting in bronze a figure portrayed in a meditative pose, the artist creates a composition which appears as a strange hybrid between vernacular art and classical sculpture.

Peltomäki's research project seeks to understand how these notions of experientiality related to local context, and to analyse how models of experientiality and individuation were configured into both canonical and vernacular art criticism.

Also involved in postal art, as well as collections of folk and vernacular art such as The Uses of Literacy: «Manic Street Preachers» (1999).

What matters is not where this African - American master of vernacular art acquired his skills, but what he did with them once he began to make art objects that he chose not to expose to public view for fear that he might be violating some unknown licensing ordinance.

I'm sure he picked up a lot of vernacular art made by self - taught artists like Thornton Dial, and many others.

By the mid-1990s Arnett's efforts resulted in an ambitious project to survey the visual tradition of the African American South: an exhibition and two - volume book, titled Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, which was ultimately presented at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and remains the most in - depth scholarly examination of its kind.

Now it's her job to apply her Millennial energy to return the High to its rightful place in the national and international conversation about vernacular art.

EXALTATIONS: GRASSROOTS AND VERNACULAR ART from the collections of Jennifer Koch, Gregg Blasdel, William L. Ellis and Julie Coffey, May 6th

A comprehensive selection of his works is presented alongside objects from his collections of vernacular art and religious didactic materials.

Kelley's aesthetic mines the rich and often overlooked history of vernacular art in America, and his practice borrows heavily from the confrontational, politically conscious, «by all means necessary» attitude of punk music.

Umberger seemed circumspectly optimistic about the broader implications of this growing receptiveness to vernacular art: «[The] more often public audiences encounter powerful art made by minority demographics, the more lopsided old narratives appear, and the mandate for inclusion continues to grow.»

Art Historian, documentarian, author and editor of numerous books, including Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, vols.I & II, The Quilts of Gee's Bend, Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, and Thornton Dial in the 21st Century.

Co-editor and contributor to numerous books, including Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, vols.I & II, The Quilts of Gee's Bend, Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, and Thornton Dial in the 21st Century.

The first volume «Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art» features 40 artists.

Associate editor of Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, vol.

In 2000 she partnered with William Arnett to form Tinwood Books, publisher of seminal volumes on African American Art of the South including Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art and The Quilts of Gee's Bend.

Occurring for nearly 25 years, the Outsider Art Fair in New York was a few days ago (Jan. 21 - 24), and Christie's held a complementary auction, «Liberation Through Expression: Outsider and Vernacular Art» on Jan. 22.

He has contributed to many catalogues and organized several exhibitions, including «Thornton Dial: Strategy of the World,» and spent two decades helping assemble the vernacular art collection that became the Souls Grown Deep Foundation.

«Souls Grown Deep: African - American Vernacular Art of the South,» a groundbreaking exhibition of over 450 artworks by some 30 contemporary artists, highlighting a significant artistic tradition that has risen in concert with the Civil Rights Movement.

Recurring themes across his practice include the uncanny, grotesque, refuse, and vernacular arts and crafts.

Since then, Anderson has engaged with the artists represented in the Foundation's collection, organizing numerous exhibitions including Souls Grown Deep: African - American Vernacular Art of the South (1996) presented in conjunction with the Atlanta Olympic Games at Michael C. Carlos Museum at City Hall East, The Quilts of Gee's Bend (2002) while director at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial (2011) at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Established in 2008, the Visionary Award honors those who have made unique and distinctive contributions to the field of self - taught and vernacular art.

In «Meta - Modern» practice there is extension and deconstruction of formalism, which blurs lines between abstraction and figuration, and employs the use of non-traditional with traditional painting materials, which is found in much of Vernacular art.

A comprehensive selection of his works will be presented alongside objects from his collections of vernacular art and religious didactic materials.

There is a currency in so much of the post-Post-Modernist work I see being made now that parallels «vernacular art.»

(Arnett, an art historian, published Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, which remains the most in - depth scholarly work on the subject.)

«Souls Grown Deep,» an enormous collection of vernacular art — what used to be called primitive art — by Southern African - Americans is the show to see in Atlanta.

Christie's announced today that it set a record for a work of outsider art at auction in its inaugural sale of self - taught artists, called «Liberation Through Expression: Outsider and Vernacular Art.»

Group exhibition showcasing works by various self - taught artists and examples of American vernacular art.