Sentences with phrase «work defies»

«Charles LeDray captivates the imagination and his work defies typical museum conventions of presentation,» said MFAH interim director Gwendolyn H. Goffe.

Although it has been linked with distinct 20th Century art practices — including abstraction, Minimalism, and Conceptual art — Palermo's diverse body of work defies easy classification.

Known for their use of clay in combination with painted glaze surfaces, these artists challenge presumptions and their work defies easy categorization as sculpture, decorative arts, or studio craft.

Akunyili Crosby's work defies the single narrative, rather it invites you to consider where one story flows into the next one.

JG: There are a lot of artists here whose work defies easy categorization, hovering on the margins of existing movements.

His work defies easy categorization.

Karla Black's exhibited work defies classification, but rather simultaneously occupies the regions of painting, sculpture, and performance.

A prolific artist whose work defies easy categorization, Mark Mulroney borrows familiar imagery from popular culture and turns it on its head.

In short, his work defies categorization.

The show offers a remarkable glimpse into the iterative process of an artist whose elemental, abstract work defies easy categorization.

January 15 — March 14, 2009 Artspace, New Haven, CT A prolific artist whose work defies easy categorization, Mark Mulroney...

Taken as a whole, his work defies a singular style, and in his drawings, paintings, and sculptures, Aldrich is able to move effortlessly between figuration, abstraction, and representation — often combining imagery variously inspired by people and places close to him, visual artists, writers, and musicians whom he finds interesting, and experiences drawn from his everyday life.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Sigmar Polke (13/2/1941 -10 / 6/2010), he is an artist whose work defies easy definitions.

«Bruce Conner (1933 — 2008) was one of the foremost American artists of the 20th century, whose transformative work defies straightforward categorization.

«The work defies any easy one - liners.

Although often associated with particular twentieth century art historical practices and discourses — including abstraction, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art — Palermo's diverse body of work defies easy classification.

Yutaka Sone's work defies easy categorization.

Since then Dine's name has been inextricably linked with the Pop Art movement, but his diverse body of work defies such easy categorization.

Mal Peet is one of those authors whose work defies categorization.

His work defies the rules of photography — it's arresting and provocative.

But why arsenic worked defied explanation.

While many critics could argue that this is just a case of sour grapes from a competing platform that doesn't like Amazon's business practice, in this case, demanding 100 % exclusivity in regard to the rights to authors» works defies the reason many authors go independent.

The collection of works defy the standard structure of a curated exhibition or the trend to have several small solo groupings presented under one roof.

«De Kooning's last paintings are hard to describe,» the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl has succinctly written, and indeed, the late works defy easy categorization, and yet they are the lasting contribution of one of the 20th century's most beloved and brilliant artists.

Spalletti's pastel works defy physical borders, motioning away from both the frame they are found within, and the architecture they are placed inside.

Visually, the works defy the boundaries of architecture, figuration and abstracted imagery.

His three dimensional works defy comparison with any other artist I am familiar with.

His enigmatic works defy easy categorization and have influenced generations of younger artists through his ability to show us the symbolic power of ordinary things.

The works defied easy classification and stood against any established definitions.

Yet the beauty, rhythm and harmony in these works defy the urgent social message in Williams» long - time practice that counsels vigilance amidst political chaos and corruption.

Not exact matches

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

By not compulsively working every waking hour, the 29 - year - old knows she's defying some sort of macho entrepreneurial code.

With specialized, hand - crafted works, Hori wants to defy the norm of Chinese mass - production.

Guests on Aliya Janjua's monthly podcast, Confessions of Successful Asian Women, tell stories of how they have defied marginalization and worked their way up to success, pioneered in their fields and sought to change paradigms or fight injustice through their work.

«I'm the chief operating officer for Defy Ventures, and I work with these people to tell them why second chances are so important.»

Catherine Hoke of Defy Ventures embodies this creativity as she reimagines our correctional system and works to create a better future for folks with criminal histories.

9-05-1972 Leaders of the Québec Common Front go to jail for defying back to work laws during the April general strike.

Religious teachings often DEFY logic and reason (e.g., God is all knowing, all seeing and all powerful and yet He allows someone's husband or wife to die a painful and horrific death from colon cancer)-- that's why the religious sometimes must turn to faith (e.g., God works in mysterious ways).

The problem I have with most «Biblical scholars» is that they work starting from a series of assumptions that defy history and fact, let alone logic.

Our task is to work hard, master the arguments (scientific, ethical, philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.

But his work as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations defies easy classification as interventionist, neoconservative or idealist.

Drinan worked to defy, and encourage others to defy, that elementary truth of moral reason.

When these are defied there is set in motion, whether in an individual life or in the social order, a chain of consequences which may take the form of vast destruction and misery; or which may work silently in the individual soul in the loss of the meaning of life, the fading of the glory, — but it happens.

Granted that nobody spoke like him, worked the miracles he did and defied the laws of nature; but this could be possible, it was argued, by drawing on divine support.

Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ whose divine humanity defies explanation in terms of any general metaphysical scheme, have had for the most part little interest in or even contact with these process - relational Christologies.2 That revelation presents to us this Christ is sufficient warrant for believing him; his being is, at any rate, incommensurate with ours.

Defying the different ecclesial tastes of the 1970s, George W. Webber also published Today's Church: A Community of Exiles and Pilgrims (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979), which advocates a style of transience more radical than the one proposed in his earlier works.

It also DEFIES ANY LOGIC that you could clam that God changed all the rules about killing people for working on the Sabbath but did so without changing his mind.

I have worked with Dutch - Canadians for nearly thirty years, and they have told stories of how the Christian churches and schools defied the demands of the Nazi occupation authorities and contributed to the resistance movement.

Furthermore, it is not obvious to me that nonbelievers are repulsed by what is foreign, odd or «mystical» — not when Hollywood movies gross billions precisely by delivering symbols that defy easy assimilation and require work to understand.

How can these artists, who defied their Master in their work, move me to appreciate the beauty of God's creation?