Sentences with phrase «work tightrope»

The New York Times review of the 57th Venice Biennale — Viva Arte Viva curated by Christine Macel, mentioning the work Tightrope, 2015 by Taus Makhacheva as one of the highlights of the exhibition.

Not exact matches

Bridge construction firm Harrison & Burrowes, which worked on the Walkway over the Hudson and is based in Glenmont, also is a partner, as is O'Connell Electric, an upstate New York company that installs cable, including pulling one for tightrope walker Nik Wallenda across Niagara Falls, Madison said.

«Finding the right balance is like walking a tightrope; our work has focused on finding ways to keep oxidative stress at bay.»

Walking a tightrope between deference and disrespect, James Franco has made his most ambitious work to date with «The Disaster Artist», a seriocomic exploration inside the mind of writer - director - cultural sensation Tommy Wiseau.

Critic Consensus: Silver Linings Playbook walks a tricky thematic tightrope, but David O. Russell's sensitive direction and some sharp work from a talented cast gives it true balance.

A thin, barely - visible tightrope hovers over two different yet equally - treacherous perils: on one side, you risk missing the point of the original and creating a follow - up whose character, plot, and theme barely resembles its source; on the other, you simply retread the familiar beats of the previous work, applying a fresh coat of paint to the old structure.

The late third act transference of the Wendigo figure into the father as avenger — a metamorphosis represented with ingenious basement and in - camera effects — is a series of tightrope maneuvres that shouldn't work but work like a bastard.

The film's trailer hints that film will be a dark satire, lush period film and a complex character study of Zama's paranoia - fueled descent, all mixed up into one, which is what is to be expected of the Argentinian director who has perfected walking a tightrope in terms of tone and genre in her not - always - easy to categorize body of work.

As in The Meyerowitz Stories, Baumbach's work is most insightful when characters perform an ugly tightrope walk between fashioning themselves as triumphant rebels and having to confront their own abject state of being.

The «Tightrope» singer and actress is following up her Electric Lady album with the work, which will be her third studio album.

Tragedy Girls is a sharp piece of genre work, sure - footed enough to walk a razor - thin tonal tightrope.

My generation's tightrope does not span from our parents» house to the working world.

Our «Buffy in Japan» sales pitch mixed with high quality art / story, good word of mouth, YALSA recognition, and our ability to balance on a shaky tightrope between American comics and manga is working for us.

However, the worst thing that can happen with the Tightrope is that if things do not work out well, the implant can be removed and a TPLO can then be performed to improve the situation.

He has filmed men wrestling, women walking a tightrope, Hula Hoop dancers, even the sky above his own head, and a homage to Buster Keaton, his most resolved work in the Turner prize show.

He draws in white wax crayon on paper covered with wet chalkboard gray paint — a favorite wet - dry technique — to creating wobbly spirals, tumbling figure eights and lasso - y loops that suggest an artist working on a tightrope.

The works on view are part of an ongoing series entitled «Tightrope,» which refers to the contemporary balancing act between technology and tradition, humanity and the environment.

Works have been created alluding to traditional circus acts like acrobatics, aerial acts with trapeze, juggling, daredevil stunts like human cannonball, fire eating and magic shows, the performance of strongmen, tightrope walkers, animal tamers, stilt walkers, clowns, unicyclers and pantomimes.

Tightrope Walk A large exhibition of contemporary and modern figurative art, with works by Picasso and Lucian Freud, Alex Katz and Tracey Emin.

Shone seems, though, to be itching to throw Rae a big bouquet, noting that the new work extends beyond the «flirtatious ludic quality» of her earlier paintings, and that this time the «tightrope is long and high, the safety net seemingly miles below.»

The title, Tightrope Walk, is a quotation from a conversation between Francis Bacon and David Sylvester in which the artist explained his work as «a kind of tight rope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction».

«And I was fascinated to hear the artist's own description of his work as walking a tightrope between the hard textures of the urban built environment and something which leans towards the more poetic.»

The exhibition in MMOMA includes video works («Tightrope», «Gamsutl»), objects («Landscape»), the artefacts from a past epoch which are the artist's collection of Soviet signs (such as «Dagestan», Sport» and «Gostorgovlya»), videos of food - related performances («Caspian Sea», «Crystal Balls» and «Stomach It» amongst others) and various video evidence of the life - asserting practices of Super Taus — Taus Makhacheva's heroic alter - ego.

Though these sculptures evoke the body through an elemental vocabulary, they also reveal the tremendous physical challenge of creation — most clearly evidenced when the work walks the tightrope between figurative complexity and palpable mastery.

While this tightrope between abstraction and figuration is still being walked in this latest body of work, much of the angst evident in some of her earlier paintings seems replaced by a revelation of freedom and confidence — in herself and in her practice of painting.

There is a really, I think what you're talking about too, I sat on a diversity panel presentation for our local Louisville bar association not too long ago and one of my co-panel members who was a man from a local corporation stood up and said that he does trainings in this area and he said, «I have that people, particularly men who come to my trainings look at, I have them list all the male characteristics they can think of and all the «female characteristics» that they can think of and then I draw this line down the middle and I say women at work have to walk down this narrow line of not being too masculine and not being too feminine and finding that balance between the two and that's a difficult tightrope to walk sometimes.»

To walk this tightrope, I think about conversations I have at work.

This is why I've likened media relations to walking a tightrope, because you're a hero when it works and you're dead when it doesn't.

One of the biggest challenges about work with teens is walking the tightrope between meeting the parents» needs, expectations, and goals and doing the same for the teen.