Sentences with phrase «visual vernacular»

Indiana draws subject matter from the visual vernacular of commercial logos, highway road signs, factory die - cut stencils while incorporating the cultural heritage of American Modernists such as Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley.
Coney Island Is Still Dreamland (To a Seagull), a site - specific installation by artist Stephen Powers, will transform the Brooklyn Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery into a dynamic environment filled with paintings and signs that are created in the visual vernacular of the iconic seaside community.
Icy & Sot even curated a gallery show in 2014 that introduces Iran and the US to one another through the visual vernacular of Street Art.
We both have the same love for the visual vernacular of American culture and its individualism.
Elizabeth Strong - Cuevas is part of the group show «Visual Vernacular» on view through Jul 1 at the SOUTHAMPTON CULTURAL CENTER»S Levitas Center for the Arts at 25 Pond Lane, Southampton, NY.
Strong - Cuevas is also exhibiting sculpture as part of the group show «Visual Vernacular» at the Southampton Cultural Center's gallery.
This style, along with recurrence of specific detritus — piles of shoes, bare light bulbs, clocks, and cigarettes — interweave to create a signature visual vernacular.
Using the visual vernacular of dreams and fairy tales, Beninati's work is filled with characters and environments that create a space where the unconscious imagination is rendered visible.
Arcangel's work has long dealt with the status conferred upon differing cultural ephemera: the privilege endowed so - called Fine Art as compared to the visual vernacular of «lowbrow» pop culture.
Through the use of multimedia, Dodd creates a visual vernacular that is heavily influenced by her African Ancestry and Spiritual practice.
He chops, carves and rearranges model and celebrity faces and body parts, breathing new life into the polished visual vernacular of fashion advertising.
Using digital and wireless platforms, as well as analog printing and traditional casting techniques as a point of departure, each of the artists» creative processes explore the development of artistic practices and visual vernacular in the post-information age.
But soon the spray paint became a part of her visual vernacular and it was no longer a defacement of the work but a vital addition to the elements at play within the environment of the canvas.
Over the years we have watched as Adam's visual vernacular has evolved and changed with her vision.
The artists show how technological advances enable the manipulation of a visual vernacular.
by Walter Chaw Edward Carnby (Christian Slater) is a «paranormal investigator,» which in Uwe Boll's visual vernacular means that he dresses like Highlander Duncan MacLeod and lives in MacLeod's apartment, too.
The new ceramic pieces are presented on customised plinths of stacked walnut - veneered box - section, perforated steel sheeting and smoked glass that assimilate the visual vernaculars and architectures of high - finance and corporate culture.
He has contributed major texts to well over a hundred art books, monographs and exhibition catalogues and dedicated much of his energies to charting the visual vernaculars of youth culture, including graffiti and street art.

Not exact matches

Don't be shy about making a splash with distinct vernacular dialogue and unusual settings portrayed in vivid visuals.
You can read books written in English to get a sense of how to write in with the appropriate vernacular, grammar, slang, including dialogue, narrative, and visual description.
Lawrence created a vernacular visual history, much of which is still missing from history textbooks today.»
The absorbed images are transformed to create a new vernacular of visual cues tangentially related to media, be it advertising, cinema, or magazines.
The exhibition's title, I KILLED KENNY, invokes the vernacular of «South Park,» framing Pensato's visual vocabulary within the cartoon's sardonic wit and cultural critique.
Sadie Barnette uses drawing, photography, objects, book and print making, and site - specific interventions to construct a visual language out of cultural codes and west coast vernacular, economic formalism, text and abstractions.
Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series.
Leigh's sculptural works in ceramic and other materials reference vernacular visual traditions from the Caribbean, the American South, and the African continent, as well as the black diasporic experience dating from the Middle Passage to the present.
Romancing The Fragment presents works that are invested in materialist histories, reconstructing our vernacular visual languages in various forms, freezing its fragments and revealing our contemporary culture in ruin.
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.
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.
By fusing the vernacular of Western portraiture with visual motifs found in Islamic art, Fallah's paintings speak to his own hybridity as an Iranian immigrant.
Recent feminist authors and visual artists explore the «trending» parallels between vernacular architectures in virtual and (sub) urban spaces.
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The hand - painted ornamental design of Lin's «Untitled (Clockwise)» installation is appropriated from a bed sheet and draws on vernacular visual elements in his work.
Often without formal training, and facing economic insecurity and racial discrimination, these artists created profound works from both conventional art media and cast - off materials, giving visual power to a highly developed vernacular tradition that enriches an alternative to conventional narratives of modern art.
Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series.
Tapping the traditions of documentary and conceptual photography, Leonard's project, which she developed during a residency at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, is positioned within the genealogy of the grand visual archives that extend from Eugène Atget's Paris «then and now,» to August Sander's Face of Our Time, to Bernd and Hilla Becher's typologies of vernacular architecture.
Birch's visual style, a form of conceptual Southern Vernacular painting, is a syncretic blend of representation and abstraction that utilizes African diasporic retentions — cultural traits that have persisted across history — to create a record of the past's symbolic traces on the present, in order to preserve them for the future.
1985 2 Smart Art, Too, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, USA (Joseph Masheck, Curator) Final Love, Cash / Newhouse Gallery, New York, USA (Collins & Milazzo, Curators) Smart Art: New Work from NY, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (Joseph Masheck, Curator) Paravision, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA (Collins & Milazzo, Curators) Abstract Painting, Wolff Gallery, New York, USA Summer Exhibition, Tibor de Nagy, New York, USA Kölner Herbstsalon, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Abstract / Issues, Sherry French Gallery, New York, USA (Steven Madoff, Curator) Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan Cult and Decorum, Tibor de Nagy, New York, USA (Collins & Milazzo, Curators) Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
«Rossi's fastidious approaches to composition and technique emerged from her practice of intense visual observation, her interest in vernacular devotional images, and her appreciation of art as a conduit of complex mental states.»
This season features works in ballet, urban vernacular, early tap and rural percussive, authentic jazz and modern dance; collaborations with two visual artists, a composer, and featuring live music.
Jim Shaw's creations are characterized by the artists» idiosyncratic approach — where obscure iconography meets craftsmanship — to the reality that surrounds him: each work synthesises the vernacular and the exceptional, mysticism and realism, creating a visual aesthetic that challenges America's puritan and radical underbelly.
De Nieves» work often develops its own intricate visual symbolism drawing on both classical Catholic and Mexican vernacular motifs to develop his own mythology.
Vertical roll, black, neon and strobe light; dancers, musicians, computer language, television broadcast and satellite transmission form the visual and aural vernacular of his tapes and films, recently gathered under the title, Channel Mix.
The phrase, found in a book of nineteenth - century penmanship exercises and recently tattooed across the artist's back, signals a commitment to text and image, as well as the visual influence of vernacular tattoo art.
Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, including photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family - album photographs.
For Roberts, the paintings are «collections of ambient language used to derive an intensely visual abstract vernacular
American vernacular architecture has been a consistent visual motif in Armajani's practice, and is embodied in his public works, including bridges, gardens, and outdoor rooms.
Through April 28, the Whitney Museum of American Art is presenting Blues for Smoke, a wide - ranging exhibition exploring the definition of the blues and blues aesthetic, the history and origins in the South at the turn of the twentieth century, the sensibility, the vernacular, the music, through the visual arts.
The List has been deeply invested in placing visual art within vernacular spaces, both in its installation of abstract sculpture on MIT's campus and its pioneering student art - loan program.
His sculptures call attention to their making and invite a bodily response from the viewer, while their vernacular titles create a tension between the visual and the poetic.
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