Sentences with phrase «whose pioneering work»

Highlights during 2014 include a spotlight on Jane Drew (1911 — 1996), a British architect and educator whose pioneering work signalled a major shift from universal modernism to responsive and vernacular design; a selected exhibition of Artists» scrapbooks; a spotlight on Polish experimental artist and film maker Walerian Borowczyk (1923 — 2006); and a Reading Room «take - over» during the Autumn by artist Julie Verhoeven.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery opens its exhibition season with Nancy Holt: Sightlines, a thematic exhibition offering an in - depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture and time - based media.
Ronald Edmonds, whose pioneering work in the area of «effective schools» gained wide national recognition, died July 15.
He is an artist, designer, researcher and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture and Art Project which he established in 1996 is considered a leading biological art project.
With her AB in Chemistry from Harvard in hand, Dr. Ting went West for her doctoral studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, and postdoc work at the University of California, San Diego, under Roger Tsien, whose pioneering work with Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) had won him the 2008 Nobel Prize.
Michel McCoy, whose pioneering work in high performance computing established Lawrence Livermore as a world renowned supercomputing center, was honored Thursday with the National Nuclear Security Administration's Science and Technology Award.
Beatrix Ann Hamburg, a renowned psychiatrist and academic researcher whose pioneering work advanced understanding of mental health for children and adolescents and shaped public policies related to improving the health of minorities, died on April 15.
American painter Denis Peterson, whose pioneering works are universally viewed as an offshoot of Photorealism, first used [4] «Hyperrealism» to apply to the new movement and its splinter group of artists.

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Element AI, whose co-founder Yoshua Bengio is considered a pioneer in the burgeoning field of deep learning, works with companies to incorporate various A.I. technologies for their businesses.
«This is going to work itself out on its own,» says William Hambrecht, a pioneering underwriter whose eponymous investment bank helped take Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) public in 2004.
In giving him the award, the Vatican recognized an Anglican scholar who pioneered a distinctive understanding of the gospels, the implications of whose work still need unpacking.
But a body of newer work on the apostle — including, perhaps, as Hurtado notes, Wright's own new books (which I haven't had the chance to finish reading yet)-- reveals that Paul may, after all, look less like a liberal Westerner than the New Perspective has taught us to think and more like a Christ - haunted figure whose radical social practices arose directly from his pioneering, innovative thinking about the identity and achievement of Jesus Christ.
He is an inner - space pioneer whose work holds the promise of freeing himself and others who are locked - in, at least to a degree, by eventually allowing them to have real - time conversations.
One is the differing contributions made by pioneers whose work is essentially descriptive, and that of individuals who initiate revolutions in thought.
The pioneering abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky (whose work is pictured) suggested that the emotional effects of abstract art are «objective, determined by the characteristics of the colours and their interactions».
A Russian astrophysicist who pioneered the study of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background to learn more about the universe and an American chemist whose work led to the development of several new materials have won the Kyoto Prize from the Japanese Inamori Foundation.
«APL develops when two tumor suppressors fuse together to become an oncogene,» adds co-author Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, Director of the Cancer Center at BIDMC whose own pioneering work revealed the molecular underpinnings of APL and led to its cure.
Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.
It was established in honor of the founder of the NCRP, the late Dr. Lauriston S. Taylor, a radiation physicist and pioneer in the field of radiation safety whose work led to the first U.S. standard for X-ray exposure.
In 2008 he was elected as member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, whose members are chosen among the scientists of all countries who have distinguished themselves by the value of their scientific work, their role of pioneers or leaders of a school in the broad field of the application of quantum mechanics to the study of molecules and macromolecules.
«Travel the world with pioneering designer and advanced style icon Zandra Rhodes, whose unique, colorful work with textiles and patterns continues to inspire, most notably here in
We frequently see her on her laptop or iPhone, video - chatting with her boyfriend (Ty Olwin) or looking up people like artist Hilma Af Klint, a pioneering Swedish painter and mystic whose 19th - century works were said to have been inspired by spirits — and whose art anticipated abstract expressionism by decades.
«Travel the world with pioneering designer and advanced style icon Zandra Rhodes, whose unique, colorful work with textiles and patterns continues to inspire, most notably here in Seattle, where we follow along as she coordinates costumes and set design for Seattle Opera's production of Bizet's «The Pearl Fishers.»»
Copernicus was a pioneer of astronomy whose work was crucial to the replacement of the «goecentric model» of the Universe with a «heliocentric» model.
We have learned from the pioneering human capital reforms led by Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson in DCPS and from stand - out charter performers, like KIPP, DC Prep, and Two Rivers, whose work proves every day that the achievement gap can be closed.
Folks like John Umbreit, who pioneered one of the first fully - online mastery - based programs in training folks to do function - based assessments (FBA), people like Brenda Scheuermann and Eugene Wang, who've worked to bring PBIS training into the Texas state juvenile justice system, educational technology wizards like Daniel Tillman, who hooked us up with David Gibson, whose company administers an online classroom simulation software, the list goes on.
Colleen Doran, a true pioneer among females in the comics industry whose extensive body of work includes the Neil Gaiman graphic novel Troll Bridge and Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible Stan Lee, will be honored as the seventh honoree in the Wizard -LSB-...] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Here on the Atherton Tablelands you will meet hard working Australians whose families go back generations as pioneers of this district.
San Francisco's Jessica Silverman Gallery announced today that it now represents Judy Chicago, the feminist - art pioneer whose work deals with female sexuality and the role of women throughout art history.
Art and Black Los Angeles 1960 — 1980 chronicles the vital legacy of the African American arts community in Los Angeles, examining a pioneering group of black artists whose work and connections with other artists of varied ethnic backgrounds helped shape the creative output of Southern California.
Camille Utterback, a pioneer in the field of digital and interactive art, whose work explores the aesthetic and experiential possibilities of linking computational systems to human movement and physicality in visually layered ways.
Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin notes, «presenting the exquisitely focused Wexner family collection allows us to offer audiences — especially university students and scholars — an unparalleled look at some of the pioneering artists whose work in the first half of the 20th century transformed the cultural landscape of their time, and continues to resonate in our own.
Gilliam, an internationally known artist whose work is influenced by Abstract Expressionism, is recognized for his Color Field paintings and pioneering works on unsupported canvases which he first introduced in 1965.
Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art, and an acclaimed multimedia artist whose work encompasses video, performance, installation, sound, text, and drawing.
While many associate the trippy, repetitive style with the «swinging sixties,» Op Art was pioneered in the 1930s by Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely, whose influential work focused on what he considered the two greatest tenants of artistic creation, «pure color» and «pure form.»
«The Plant That Heals May Also Poison reflects our commitment to illuminating the pioneering work of underrecognized artists whose work merit reappraisal and placing them within a new, contemporary context.»
A visionary whose art since the 1950s has defied categorization, Mary is a legend; her pioneering work deserves our focus and attention.»
For half a century now, Lynn Hershman Leeson has made pioneering contributions to performance, conceptual art, new media, and film with works whose formal and technical experimentation is matched by her fearlessness in the deconstruction of gendered identity in a misogynist and technologically mediated world.
This includes artists such as conceptual art pioneer Stephen Willats, whose multimedia works employed computers as early the 1970s.
Another pioneer of collage was Joseph Cornell, whose more intimately scaled works were seen as radical because of both his personal iconography and his use of found objects.
Ms. Macel chose to give the Biennale's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement to the pioneering feminist performance artist Carolee Schneemann, whose work — including her bacchanalian 1964 video, «Meat Joy» — pushes the boundary between dance and visual art.
The life and work of the pioneering South African artist, whose 1946 masterpiece, The Watussi Chief's Wife, is offered on 14 December
Alongside these pioneering figures, the exhibition also showcases works by a younger generation, including Anne Collier, Roe Ethridge and Steven Shearer, whose interests reflect those of their predecessors, whilst also presenting their own unique take on appropriation.
Anna Halprin is a pioneering choreographer whose work has led to a reconsideration of dance as an art form.
One of the newer pioneers in this quest is Letha Wilson, whose work surrealistically combining photography with architectural elements (sometimes printing the images on concrete) gained avid attention when she was included in several well - received group shows last year, such as «What Is a Photograph» at the ICP and «Ain'tings» at Robert Blumenthal Gallery.
His pioneering efforts created a collective identity for the artists whose materials, though «poor», were use to make conceptually rich works that sought to provoke change.
A major exhibition on the 40 - year career of the Pictures Generation pioneer, whose work engages conceptualism and institutional critique Published in conjunction with the exhibition Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW, at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume charts the creative practice of one of the most influential artists working in the fields of picture - making and institutional critique.
Drawings, 1954 — 58 brings together over twenty rare works by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937 — 1980), a pioneer in Modernism and multi-disciplinary practice whose works - on - paper have not yet been exhibited independently.
Helio Oiticica, Metaesquema 167, 1956 Gouache on board, 16 x 16 1/8 inches December 17 — February 6, 2010 Drawings, 1954 — 58 brings together over twenty rare works by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937 — 1980), a pioneer in Modernism and multi-disciplinary practice whose works - on - paper have not yet been exhibited independently.
Atsuko Tanaka was a pioneering Japanese avant - garde artist, whose abstract works rejected conventional ideas of how art should appear or «perform.»
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