Sentences with phrase «with quotidian materials»

Overton has become known for her site - responsive installations and sculptures made with quotidian materials.

Not exact matches

He adopts materials and gestures informed by quotidian American public spaces, suburban culture, and everyday objects, and often works directly with the architecture of a given site.

Breaking with the lyrical, abstract styles then dominant in Paris, the nine artists present declared their commitment to «new perceptions of the real,» incorporating found objects and quotidian materials into their work in an attempt to blur the distinction between art and everyday life.

In an interview with Black Art In America, Shrobe discusses the rich history of materials, and poetically defines abstraction as a process wherein the artist invites materials to tell their own story.3 In so doing, Shrobe frees our collective imagination from the trappings of social object memory, uplifting the quotidian and inviting viewers with differing levels of art literacy to see themselves and their neighborhood reflected in his works.

«Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins)» at the Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, opening February 11, 6 - 8 p.m., through March 19, thepacegallery.com Since being featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2000, Tara Donovan has become a bona fide international sensation by using everyday materials — styrofoam cups, pencils, straws, paper plates, Scotch tape, and more — to create sculptures that invade larger spaces that one would think possible with biomorphic shapes, mini cities, and quotidian - made - fantastic vistas.

«Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins)» at the Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, opening February 11, 6 - 8 p.m., through March 19, thepacegallery.com Since being featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2000, Tara Donovan has become a bona fide international sensation by using everyday materials — styrofoam cups, pencils, straws, paper plates, Scotch tape, and more — to create sculptures that invade larger spaces that one would think possible with biomorphic shapes, mini cities, and quotidian - made - fantastic

With their collage of quotidian materials, their vertical orientation reminiscent of skyscrapers (albeit in miniature), and their use of a sculptural idiom, the columns are typical of Genzken's approach, for although her oeuvre is heterogeneous, architecture, sculpture, modernism, and the readymade remain touchstones of her artistic practice.

The paintings of Janice Biala are a quotidian diary of friends, places and things she was compelled to capture by any means necessary, with any material available at the moment of artistic conception.

Engaging Arte Povera practices, they are all fabricated with inexpensive and quotidian materials such as cardboard, tape, polystyrene, timber, fabric scraps, plaster and cement.

Working in a variety of media including drawing, film, performance, and sculpture, he creates complex installations comprised of quotidian materials such as cable, cardboard, Q - tips, foam, and tape along with personal products like shaving cream and toothpaste.

Other artists in the show employ strategies of accumulation and «recuperation,» drawing on objects present in their surroundings to create dense, poetically lyrical works that combine a love of abstraction with a commitment to the use of quotidian materials.

Employing everyday objects and domestic materials, Salcedo creates works that serve as monuments to moments of political crisis or tragedy, suffusing the quotidian objects with layered meaning.

Cathy Wilkes, who has been working since the 1990s, creates sculptural tableaux that engage with the rituals of life, employing quotidian products and residual materials drawn from her domestic life.

Shinique Smith's bundle of clothing (Bale Variant No. 0022) towers toward the ceiling, bound with shoelace and ribbon, prompting a meditative orbit as one inspects the garments, possibly the most quotidian of all the materials in the show, second only to the urine deposits of Andy Warhol's Oxidation Painting.

She calls her materials quotidian, utilitarian, The resulting work by both artists defy category, flirt with invisibility and infinity and yet respond to the particular, re-image space, and beautifully surprise the viewer.