Walking through the Ameringer «Emily Mason: Recent Paintings» exhibition, on view from January 5 and through February 11, 2017,
the viewer becomes aware that Mason's concerns change almost radically from canvas to canvas, apparently and not unexpectedly from the development of each painting's individual character.
Serra explained of the artwork: «
The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza.
So after entering the world of the artist and his art,
the viewer becomes aware of the many different meanings and associations linked with his work, beginning with erotic associations, moving on to suggestions of a more precious material and concluding with confusion about the disproportionate format.
The viewer becomes aware of your process and concentration and time, but can't possibly spend that same amount of time looking.
Within these assemblages however the order is clarified as
the viewer becomes aware of how each element combines to create and generate an audio composition.
The difference is subtle, but can't be unseen once
the viewer becomes aware of it.
As with real art, time expanded, slowed down;
viewers became aware of complex interplays between realities; logic was bypassed, multiple patterns of meaning formed.
Not exact matches
Combining monochrome painting, scrims of glass and salvaged wood, Collins sets up a situation where
viewers at first encounter a minimalist object, then discover all manner of unexpected nuance, and ultimately, through reflections,
become keenly
aware of themselves and the act of viewing.
Each uses discarded, undervalued materials and meditative processes to encourage
viewers to
become more
aware of their bodies and of the present moment.
Engaging their bodies to look,
viewers become more keenly
aware of the corporeal aspects of the images.
Mei - Ling hopes the
viewers will relate their lives to past and present experiences, and
become more
aware of their surrounding environment.
Through remembrance of the past and projection towards the future, she propels
viewers to identify the stage of their mutation and our relation to memory as the only remnant of the present and yet the only tool through which one
becomes aware of his own mutation.
Looking at the painting with attention the
viewer will
become aware that it has a central vertical division and that there is an underlying symmetry in the pattern of the two sides.
For work that is entirely about empowering
viewers to
become aware of their own potentiality for reinterpreting material and political history the artist hopes to understand how such moves and gestures narrowly impact the
viewer's engagement with the work itself; and, more broadly, the history and philosophy of science, military and popular influences on culture.
Since she moved to L.A., her art has
become a lot about her studio practice, about creating a loop of the micro and macro aimed at giving
viewers a sense of vertigo that makes them want to look closer, hyper -
aware of their surroundings.
Initially interested in toys merely as objects, Levinthal
became aware of the emotions that his constructions evoked in
viewers.
In the Detroit series of decaying and derelict urban structures, the
viewer becomes intensely
aware of the passing of the years and the impact of economic depression.
There is a voyeuristic aspect to Senior's work as
viewers become self - consciously
aware of the action of their own gaze.
In these new sculptures, as well as across Price's work, the artist's careful attention to the minutiae of physical appearance and presentation invites the
viewer to
become more
aware of the subconscious processes by which we recognise, interpret and respond to other people, all the while fashioning our own social identities via outward presentation.
Using artifacts, discarded quotidian objects, and wartime ephemera, Attia transforms the space of the gallery into one of introspection, allowing the
viewer to
become aware of the complicated and often inaccurate depiction of our multiple histories.