Sentences with phrase «work challenges viewer»

Rudolf Stingel (b. 1956, Merano, Italy) is a New York based artist whose work challenges the viewer to critically consider their own perceptual experience in viewing art.
His work challenges viewer's sensibility to the obvious.
Much of the work challenges the viewer to consider how the unexplainable can continually occur.
Interpretation of the work challenges the viewer to locate «voice», as ambivalence seems to be at its core.
In different ways, then, each of the artists in this show is concerned with signature residue: their works challenge the viewer into believing in the artistic aura of their gestures, however minimal.
Merging ideas of ritual, community, and pride, the work challenges the viewers to revisit stereotypes and visual tropes.
The works challenge the viewer with mute austerity as stark signs that refuse to perform as signifiers.
His site - specific works challenge viewers» perception of their bodies in relation to interior spaces and landscapes, and his work often encourages movement in and around his sculptures.
The work challenges viewers to consider new ideas about contemporary art, artifice, and authenticity, and the phenomenology of experience in the desert environment.
Walker's work challenges viewers with scenes and characters that are puzzling, bizarre, shocking, and graphic.
Her work challenges viewers to reflect on the relationship between self and other in an ever - evolving global landscape.»

Not exact matches

To see if entertainment could offer a solution to this challenge, Ingber teamed up with Charles Reilly, Ph.D., a molecular biophysicist, professional animator, and Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute who previously worked at movie director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post film studio, to create a film that would capture viewers» imaginations by telling the story of a biological process that was accurate down to the atomic level.
Equally, if everything fails to work, the film is a slog that perpetually challenges the viewer to engage while offering little reason to do so.
It isn't perfect, but when it works, it's brilliant, and a definite recommendation for viewers looking for something a little more challenging than your typical adventure film.
Isn't passionately loving or hating a work of art a way of measuring what buttons have been pressed and demonstrating that viewers might have been challenged?
No comic filmmaker in America today works so hard to stay on the knife's edge between humor and pathos or is so eager to challenge his viewers emotionally.
You challenge the viewer with the structure, but what was it like for the actors working with this material?
Mahadev's series of winning images not only provides a window into the lives of the women and children working in a brick factory, but poses an interesting challenge for the viewer to look beyond the attractive imagery.
This work, a group of de - and reconstructed cats and dogs suspended from the ceiling by wires exemplifies Nauman's ability to place the audience off - balance, thus challenging the viewer's preconceptions.
At the heart of Wolfgang Tillmans» work is a challenge to existing hierarchies of beauty and value; he invites the viewer to discard all assumptions about where these qualities are to be found.
His work challenged the notions of public and private space, originality, authorship and — most significantly — the authoritative structures in which he and his viewers functioned.
A staple in art historical discussions of institutional critique, Lawler's photographs challenge the viewer to think about the context in which works of art are displayed, and subsequently the overlooked aesthetic choices made by the places in which they are viewed, sold, and stored.
With «pattern paintings» intentionally resembling wallpaper, and paintings that capture the image of viewers on their surface, the work presents a playful challenge to notions of gallery space and what constitutes a painting.
Challenging the viewer's assumptions about the world, Piper's work draws from personal and professional experiences and directly addresses gender, race, xenophobia, social engagement and self - transcendence.
This new body of work presents oversized, hyper - realistic portraits of people that challenge the viewer to consider the artist's rigorous technique.
, a group exhibition curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody featuring works in various media by both well - known and emerging artists who work in the field of contemporary realism to visually or conceptually challenge the viewer.
The works in this exhibition, spanning 1992 to the present, blur the divide between two and three - dimensional forms to challenge the viewer's understanding of the world in which they live.
This Annual Open Call exhibition challenges artists to create works in a box that engage one viewer at a time.
As Como is quoted in the show essay, «the works are catalysts... they are meant to challenge the viewer's sense of history, memory, evolution, and transcendence.»
challenges viewers to find personal meaning in the works on exhibit.
Since the 1960s, Tuttle has challenged conventions of genre and media, sensitizing viewers to the experience of looking with his work.
Through glass works designed and fabricated in Murano and the Seattle area, as well as in paintings, sculpture, prints, and video, Wilson challenges assumptions about history, culture, and display practices, offering alternative interpretations and encouraging viewers to reconsider how they think and what they know.
She continues to create works that both challenge and provide solace to her viewers.
Her work is informed by her daily experience with ambiguity and seeks to dismantle assumptions of our fixed subjectivity through images that challenge the viewer to contend with the disorganized body in a state of excess.
Jenkins's work is generally performance - based, and he often challenges the viewer by questioning what it means to be an artist; indeed, he recently gave an artist's talk which included employing hecklers to shout him down.
Durgin's body of work creates a mutable and highly charged space in which the viewer is challenged to define what is real and what is beautiful.
Shields challenges the viewer to move around his work as one does a sculpture, and color always stimulates my tendency to guess the theoretical underpinnings of the use of a spectrum.
Drawing from his personal, as well as a collective, wellspring of experiences living as an African American man in the South through the middle of the twenty - first century, Dial's work captures struggle and oppression, but also joy and wit, and challenges viewers to wrestle with their own preconceptions, prejudices, as well as ironies of being an American.
An artist whose mixed media work is highly conceptual and who constantly challenges himself to work with a wide range of materials, Ryan Gander also challenges his viewer to engage with his environments instead of playing the «lazy spectator.»
In doing this Paolini challenges the viewers preconceived ideas of what an art work should be, subverting expectations and leaving the viewer with a sense of ambiguity.
The resulting works push the limits of their utilitarian materials and challenge the viewer's perceptions.
A central figure in the California Light and Space movement, Robert Irwin (b. 1928) has been creating installations and works of art for over six decades that challenge viewers» perceptions of the world around them.
While attempting to incorporate text into his sculptures of the period, he was challenged to find a cohesive way of incorporating his voice into his commanding structures, and although he created numerous neon light works and installations, his sculpture evolved in a more conceptual direction, withholding information and requiring a complex response from the viewer by creating «uncomfortable spaces and shapes».
She actively challenges viewers to question their perception of space through works that blur the line between two and three dimensions.
The challenge was learning how to enable multiple entry points into my work for different viewers about the same body of work and subject matter over a decade.
Each painting creates a space and world of its own, captivating viewers and challenging them to spend time with the mesmerizing works.
LRF: The challenge of working on the same subject matter for over a decade is how to keep the photographs dynamic and interesting to the viewer over that extended period of time.
Because these works are closely interrelated, other strands emerge as well, like challenging the viewer's integrity and critiquing American culture.
Lydia Okumura (b. 1948, Brazil) actively challenges viewers to question their perception of space through sculptures, installations and works on paper that blur the line Read More»
Lydia Okumura (b. 1948, Brazil) actively challenges viewers to question their perception of space through sculptures, installations and works on paper that blur the line between two and three - dimensions.
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