Sentences with phrase «work on a human scale»

Hunt found a unique way to bring the landscape into his work on a human scale.
I see similarities between your work and hers, because you often work on a human scale, you incorporate materials like wood and metal, and, in addition to freestanding sculpture, you sometimes hang your sculpture on the wall or from the ceiling.
In this way, he's perhaps more closely related to Richard Tuttle, working on a human scale.

Not exact matches

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine
They repudiate nationalism and see God working on the broadest scale in human history.
But evolution has worked on much smaller scales too, producing finely honed nanostructures — parts less than a millionth of a meter across, or smaller than 1 / 20th of the width of a human hair — that help animals climb, slither, camouflage, flirt, and thrive.
But only a few scientists work directly and explicitly to improve the human condition on a wide scale.
The new work in Nature Communications overcame fundamental barriers in utilizing LED technology on monolayer semiconductors, allowing for such devices to be scaled from sizes smaller than the width of a human hair up to several millimeters.
«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute: «These mechanisms are likely to be also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»
«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said co-senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Co-Director of SciLifeLab, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute and professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University «These mechanisms are likely also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»
To this end, his work often relies on anthropology and human history as much as it does on genome sequencing and computation, in order to decipher the subtle genetic signatures that appear when species undergo major events such as population bottlenecks, large - scale migration or dispersal events, or the development of resistance to disease.
No other human beings on the planet get to really see the amazing changes on such a large scale unless they are working in an environment that practices a whole food plant based diet as there first line of medicine.
Given the vast scale the Russos are working on, resorting to your typical collect - the - gems plot game seems disappointingly basic, but there's a thornier problem with Thanos in general: he's a huge hulk of a being, twice human size, but the effects job on Brolin thwarts his usual authority as an actor.
Marques leads all finance, accounting, and human resource functions as well as leading work on budget development, pricing, and refining the business model as the organization scales.
Simmons discussed her new body of work and exhibition «Kigurumi, Dollers and How We See», open March 7th at Salon94, that uses Japanese Kigurami dolls to explore these themes on a human scale.
While his work bears similarities to that of American abstract expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and Barnett Newman, Hoyland was keen to avoid what he called the «cul - de-sac» of Rothko's formalism and the erasure of all self and subject matter in painting as championed by the American critic Clement Greenberg.1 The paintings on show here exhibit Hoyland's equal emphasis on emotion, human scale, the visibility of the art - making process and the conception of a painting as the product of an individual and a time.
Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.
He works in metal and fiberglass, in large and small scale, commenting — at once seriously and with humor — on the human condition.
This began on the small scale with works whose starting point was the nature of the human being and the infinite variation of our facial expressions.
This exhibition highlights his work on a more human scale and showcases his deftness across a range of materials including graphite, steel, stainless steel, alabaster, polyester resin, and wood.
Given its scale, it is instructive to compare this large piece with the paintings featured in the show: where form and an entirely flat painted surface lend strength to the paintings, the subtle human touch inherent to the printers art yields a different sort of gravity, and perhaps timelessness, to the works on paper.
Known for her dynamic, emotionally charged animal and human figures, the Art School's 2018 Visiting Ceramic Artist, Beth Cavener, will discuss her inspirations, body of work, and unusual method of working «solid» on a monumental scale.
5:30 pm: Join Queens Museum staff at Peace Table, 1997, to learn how to participate in upcoming dialogues on key aspects of Ukeles» work, including artists embedded in city agencies, the future of garbage in NYC, diverse explorations on the subject of peace, human agency in changing the world, and how care and service work scales from family to city to planet.
Works on display include Doug Aitken's Migration, 2008, a large - scale video installation that explores the collision of humans and animals as the built environment sprawls.
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection features forty - six large - scale paintings, prints, works on paper, and photographs that give insight into the human psyche, while helping us to understand the human condiHuman Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection features forty - six large - scale paintings, prints, works on paper, and photographs that give insight into the human psyche, while helping us to understand the human condihuman psyche, while helping us to understand the human condihuman condition.
The visceral imagery of the video is made tangible in the accompanying sculptural works — distended body parts on the floor and walls — as well as a large - scale wall drawing sketched with bile and human milk.
James Rosenquist has continued to work on a grand scale and in 2006 exhibited his monumental work Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Eleanor Roosevelt, 1998 in Art Basel's prestigious Unlimited sector in Switzerland.
She focused on their potential symbolic meanings by creating works that are formally rigorous and imposing in scale and materiality, and her human - scaled works are often handmade; the traces of her processes - welding marks, folds, stains, and scratches - are frequently left visible on the surface.
These interests have remained central to his practice and extend into the large group of modestly scaled wall works made between 2002 and 2011, which contain not only the metal tool parts and carved wood found in much of his oeuvre but also symbolically loaded materials such as human hair and the asafetida bags traditionally worn on the body to ward off disease.
While African American experience, with its social, political, and cultural implications, remains the core of Marshall's stunning body of work, the portrait of human condition on global scale is what the painter seeks to address.
The works inside are modestly scaled riffs on structures endemic to human habitats.
Albuquerque's work ranges from large - scale installations on the desert floor to scientific expeditions in Antarctica, all of which explore the impact of humans on the larger cosmic universe.
After seeing James Bishop, which is currently on view at David Zwirner (September 6 — October 25, 2014), I would urge anyone who cares about what an artist can do with paint to go and immerse themselves in this beautiful, sensitive, astringent exhibition of eleven mostly square, human - scaled paintings in oil and four small works (all are less than six inches in height and width), done in oil and crayon on paper.
This large - scale presentation of Scheibitz's work will retrace the conceptual and painterly development of his career with a particular focus on the human figure and the determination of form between figuration and abstraction.
Whether leaning against the wall or laying on the floor, the works evoke human scale.
In addition to works on paper, and canvases whose physicality relates to the scale of the human body, Mangold has also worked in stained glass for architectural projects.
This large - scale presentation of Scheibitz's work retraces the conceptual and painterly development of his career with a particular focus on the human figure and the existence of form between figuration and abstraction.
Last January, when there was a rare winter tornado outbreak, and some talk of human - driven global warming playing a role, I consulted a batch of meteorologists and climate scientists who have studied trends in the categories of tornadoes that kill people, which are those designated F2 through F5 on the five - step Fujita scale of intensity (gauged by the amount and type of damage that is wrought).
10/7/15 — In a significant shift detailed in the New York Times, many environmentalists are now arguing that conservation must work on a larger scale, focusing not on preserving single species in small islands of wilderness but on large landscapes and entire ecosystems, and on the benefits that nature provides to humans.
Drawing on the work of over 80 scientists from 12 countries, it sets out the likely nature and scale of changes to come and also looks at the probable economic consequences ocean warming poses as well as associated risks to human health and well - being.
He has also worked on air pollution issues from regional to global scales, particularly related to impacts of acidifying deposition, eutrophying nitrogen deposition and gaseous and particulate pollutant impacts on crops, forests and human health.
It appears from paleo - science that there is more to it than that, the clouds that they generate as a control mechanism on the earth's temperature, this is yet another feedback mechanism for survival of all life on the planet and has been working for aeons of time, right back to the earliest life here... the planet was made more hospitable to life by life itself, geo - engineering on grand scale by the tiniest of plants in the sea... which outstrips the cleverest of plans by humans to geo - engineer and more relevantly does no harm to the planet...
But software means this work only has to be done once, for everyone to benefit; as long as law runs on humans, there are no economies of scale.
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