Sentences with phrase «vernacular art made»

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

Not exact matches

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.»

As Cooke's thesis makes evident, this isn't the first time the mainstream art world has performed a celebratory rediscovery dance with vernacular artists, so the current climate of tentative self - congratulation and hopefulness comes with some serious caveats.

5 Storr, whose essay is full of perceptive comments about Drexler's work (as when he notes how the «vernacular» quality of her colors evokes «sideshow signage») is certainly correct in making the connection between Drexler and her abstract contemporaries, but we shouldn't let the existence of such strong affinities (whether with Pop or with abstract styles) distract us from the distinctive qualities of Drexler's art, especially when it comes to materials and process.

Dunn's surgical precision to art making has resulted in a refreshing vernacular that seamlessly oscillates between the past and future.

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

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

Opening April 3rd at EFA Project Space, Common J ive presents a spectrum of contemporary artists who summon up vernacular and traditional craft approaches in their art - making practice.

Nor have outsider or vernacular forms been included — no painted signs, houses, gold - framed oils made by bored suburbanites, or realistic landscapes made by Sunday painters in their community art, plein - air classes.

Now, what in the art history vernacular that just around, what bridges can you make with those two schools, what's been left out?

She mines vernacular traditions for geometric patterns and templates that she can use, extending the options from contemporary art - making while honoring the labor - intensive activities of everyday folk.

The description is apt, given that he often grafts a specifically urban vernacular onto a unique brand of formalism, not only to summon such art - historical precedents as Mark di Suvero's and Anthony Caro's metallic structures but also to make clear turns on the project of Minimalism — on Donald Judd and Dan Flavin in particular.

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.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image - making from 1960 to the present that has been largely overlooked and undervalued.

Termed an outsider artist, a vernacular artist, and a folk artist, among other labels, Dial, who was African American, was one of just a few self - taught artists who, over the past century, began making art well beyond the borders of the predominantly urban, white mainstream art world but who would eventually find a form of success within it.