PERCHED NEAR THE EDGE of the Museum of Modern Art's atrium throughout this past spring and summer, Sigmar Polke's Kartoffelhaus (Potato House), 1967, echoed not only the diminutive German garden sheds and rigidly formed Minimalist objects in
whose shadow the work was clearly made, but also — and more oddly — the very interior in which the piece itself was installed.
Not exact matches
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's
shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many - coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity,... That Light
whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all things
work and move.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children also reunites Burton behind the camera with his Dark
Shadows and Big Eyes cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel,
whose knack for creating glossy visuals through his film
work (by utilizing soft
shadows / focus shooting techniques) looks to serve Burton's upcoming film well - in particular, during those scenes that take place in the fantastical setting where Miss Peregrine and the «Peculiars» live.
Making matters more complicated for our hero is the reappearance of Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams, weak considering the character), the only person to ever get the best of Holmes, who is
working for a mysterious man
whose face is always in
shadow (one guess whom that might be), while Watson is preparing to pack his things from 221B Baker Street.
Olsen has her
work cut out for her playing an enormously ambitious (and not very talented) woman living in the
shadow of a prickly man
whose talent just happens to be otherworldly.
Now she looks to Jonathan Ames» novella about a grown man
whose experience growing up in the
shadow of the domestic battlefield of his parents and his later experience on the very real battlefield of the Middle East informs his
work as a vigilante
whose choice of weapon is a «Master Series» ball - pein hammer.
I especially enjoyed
working with director of photography Wally Pfister
whose light and
shadows complimented and defined the patterns and colors in the costumes.
Juggling three timeframes — golly — this novel about a Dutch painter of the 17th century
whose work casts a long
shadow into the 20th century is both hugely ambitious and beautifully written.
If your family farm is in the
shadow of one of these foreign - owned farms, you may soon be swallowed up — generations of hard
work and cultivation of your land undone by companies
whose owners do not live here and do not care about us.
They appeal to Jasper Johns, the American artist,
whose one real subject is his studio but who appears in his
work only as plaster casts and
shadows.
Of the themes that define my waking hours and
whose influence is undeniably woven into in the
work, the most palpable one, playing out on the canvas of late, is an obsession with time — as a resource, as a thief, as a constant
shadow.
This exhibition brings a number of artists together who have produced
works whose visual output is primarily light and / or
shadows.
William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist
whose acclaimed charcoal drawings, animations, video installations,
shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, live performance pieces, and operas have made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists
working today.
Edward Hopper and Lawren Harris are two such artists
whose iconic imagery still resonates, and
whose reputation casts a long
shadow over all the artists
working within the genre.»
The
shadow works were first shown in a solo exhibition at the Bindery Projects in Saint Paul, Minnesota,
whose website contains some background information on the series.
Stevenson Gallery, a Cape Town space with a consistently incisive programme, has given its booth over to the protean Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen,
whose work swings between documentary scenes of Senegal and Uganda and near - abstract
shadow plays.
Lit from above and attached to the wall, they traverse not only between two - and three - dimensionality, but also between the physical and immaterial worlds, throwing
shadows whose echoing delineations form a continuation of the
works.
On Saturday July 17, The Company is pleased to present
SHADOW EFFECT, a group exhibition that brings together thirteen artists
whose works contain shades of black, gray, silver, white — sans color.
Yet, while Made in L.A. appeared as diverse and sprawling as the city
whose art it presented, it might also be argued that the bulk of the
work on view extended four familiar (and familial) lineages of Los Angeles art that were well represented in «PST»: hard - edge abstraction (represented here in paintings by Brian Sharp and Alex Olson and painterly objects by Lisa Williamson and Brenna Youngblood), found - object assemblage (in the
work of Liz Glynn, Ry Rocklen, Henry Taylor, and Erika Vogt, among others), eclectic performance practices (including live pieces by Math Bass, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, and Ashley Hunt, as well as the collective Slanguage's array of community - based
works at LAXART), and film and video projects that pointed, more or less, to the looming
shadow of Hollywood (e.g., Miljohn Ruperto's Seven and Five, 2012, which includes multiple remakes of a 1961 episode of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Dan Finsel's The Space Between You and Me, 2012, for which the artist restaged Farrah Fawcett and Keith Edmier's decade - old roll in the clay).
Yet an upcoming exhibition at Jeu de Paume is honoring a pioneering surrealist photographer
whose influence, like her
work itself, remains cast in
shadows.
In these
works, Douglas has closely interwoven music, film, theatre, photography, and digital formats, allowing them simultaneously to be associated with various forms of media, and together they provide both a rich introduction to an artist
whose investigations into mistaken identity and unstable memory, reconstruction, reinvention and the long
shadows the past cast into the present, make him one of the most interesting and important artists of our time.