Sentences with phrase «vernacular imagery»

Influenced by the folk aesthetics and history of her surroundings, Norton's work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country - music alter ego Ninnie, in a manner that combines feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky.

Michael Dopp's works on paper are capricious landscape fantasies unavailable to reality, mixing fragmented human figures with vernacular imagery.

Suellen Rocca's work is characterized by an ecstatic approach to representation, mixing human figures with wordplay and vernacular imagery.

In these recent works, processions of figures assembled from fragments of book and magazine photography and illustration manifest the artist's interest in the cross-pollination of historical and vernacular imagery.

The Order of Things investigates the production and uses of serial portraiture, conceptual structures, vernacular imagery, and time - based performance in photography from the 1880s to the present, bringing together works by artists from Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America.

Already by the mid-1960s in screenprint and lithography Ruscha was exploiting the multiple meanings in signage (Hollywood, Standard gas stations) and other forms of text, with its innate ties to print, and making poetry of banal vernacular imagery.

The exhibition at the Walther Collection, which took place from the beginning of May 2015 until the fall of 2016, investigated the production and use of serial portraiture, conceptual structures, vernacular imagery, and time - based performance in photography from the 1880s to the present, bringing together works from international artists.

By placing colorful dots over faces, obscuring portions of scenes, or juxtaposing stock photographs with quixotic phrases, he injects humor and dissonance into vernacular imagery.

Snyder MacNeil is well known for her cumulative portrait studies in platinum - palladium and for her groundbreaking role in incorporating vernacular imagery into her artistic production.

Constructed entirely from nails, by hand, Bisbee's objects draw on a deep well of American historical and vernacular imagery.

Opening: Trudy Benson and Yann Gerstberger at Lyles & King This two - person show, titled «TT52,» brings together work by a pair of painters whose densely layered abstractions recall either computer - based abstraction or vernacular imagery.

The fact is, however, that we've seen these characters and objects everywhere, and Shaw is not so much concerned with the way vernacular imagery has spread his subjects everywhere as he is genuinely interested by it.

Not exact matches

Mining the unconscious, works like Pleasantville and Golden Arches fuse vernacular structures with corporate imagery and ethereal swathes of bright color and elongated form.

This de-contextualizing of the scientific imagery by bringing it into the vernacular of painting raises questions of how we see things and interpret them due to their presentation.

Deploying posters, books, postcards and even a café and hotel, his projects have consistently had at their center a focus on the American vernacular — its music, popular imagery and ephemera — mining the nuances of culture through its unsung conventions.

There are starts and stops and interruptions, and a general feeling of insatiate desire prolongs the satisfaction and pleasures of viewing such sultry and refined images, which for the most part have been rendered in the sculptural vernacular of computer - generated imagery (CGI).

The hybridisation of motifs, techniques and materials operative at different levels of their work allows an endless back and forth between the basic obviousness of the Pop imagery allied to a vernacular language and the secondary effects of a conceptual posture that is indifferent to its natural imagery and to the context of its exhibition.

That sense of the past is combined with the imagery Shaw uses for the works — from late 19th century political cartoons to DC comics, 1970s album covers, Hollywood films and detective novels indicating a past which haunts the present and different vernaculars which co - exist within the same frame.

Further drawing the viewer in is that the complexity of the conceptual and compositional elements is coupled with the enchanting, relatable imagery from Hammond's vernacular photography.

She builds letters and phrases out of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, calling attention to the ways language and imagery are constructed.

His layouts featured distortions or mixes of «vernacular» typefaces and fractured imagery, rendering them almost illegible, leading him to be known as the father of «grunge typography».

Using the written word as a foundation for photographs, she constructs images by building letters and phrases out of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, calling attention to the ways language and imagery are put together.

It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery.

The artist combines banal vernacular with religious imagery.