Sentences with phrase «works addressing race»

Under Pressure charts an array of artistic and social concerns, from minimalism to pop and conceptual art, and more recent works addressing race, gender, and identity.

I had mentioned in my response to Randy Tibbits's screed regarding too few Houston or Texas artists at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston that I thought the museum's American art galleries had bigger issues to address, «starting with too few works by artists of color and / or works addressing race, a lack of work by Native Americans, relatively little work reflecting urban social issues and labor unrest, etc..»

Renowned for influential, idiosyncratic conceptual work addressing race and power in America, Illinois - born David Hammons is art's Greta Garbo, forgoing interviews and exhibiting rarely.

Not exact matches

«Swatting» involves a prank call to authorities to send a SWAT team racing, needlessly, to a target's home or work address.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

Klein agreed with Peralta's criticism of the mainline Democratic leadership in the Senate, adding the conference is yet to fully address why it has failed to win key legislative races in order to gain a working majority.

His Number Race game and its successor, Number Catcher, incorporate a multitude of numerical skills, so even if the game works, it won't address the theoretical differences about which skills are most essential to number sense or most compromised in dyscalculics.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Barbie movie will work to address the self - image and race issues that the iconic doll brand has had to face in recent years.

«In general, we are not able to move to a new place or to make progress with race and education,» says Keith Catone, tri-chair of AOCC, a group that celebrates the work of HGSE alumni of color and all alumni, students, and community members who share a common commitment to understanding and addressing the...

The AOCC celebrates the work of HGSE alumni of color, but is also for students, faculty, staff, and anyone in the community who shares a commitment to understanding and addressing issues of race and class in education.

«In order to address these problems, Bridgeport Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas has been working vigilantly to ensure every child in the state's largest city will someday have access to a high quality public education regardless of race, wealth or zip code.

While we have made progress in supporting teachers to recognise and address bullying based on personal characteristics such as race, religion or sexual orientation, there is still much more work to be done to raise awareness of disfigurement.

They worked together to craft a bill that addresses those shortfalls, while maintaining funding for the Race to the Top program and, according to the Congressional Budget Office, reducing the deficit.

Whereas, the Board of Education of the Rochester City School District seeks to address institutionalized racism in our schools and to offer spaces for dialogue among school staff by supporting and facilitating professional development work related to race and other challenging topics; now therefore be it.

Many prominent mystery authors address class and race in their work.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Newmarket, ON (November 2, 2012)-- The Ontario SPCA has been working in conjunction with various community members and Animal Welfare organizations across Ontario, to develop protocols addressing the recent concerns for animal care in the horse racing industry.

Rico Gatson is a Brooklyn - based artist whose work addresses identity politics, the history of race, entertainment and spirituality.

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.

Her works often address themes such as power, repression, history, race, and sexuality.

Fewer than expected works addressed war, race and climate, but standouts were Teresita Fernández's Fire (America), Bob Maguire's searing photograph of bombed - out housing in Aleppo, William Kentridge's table sculpture of South Africa's oppressed, and Simon Denny's graph outlining the possibilities for borderless societies.

Born in Algeria in 1978, Mohamed Bourouissa is internationally acclaimed for works that address contemporary issues around culture, race, and class.

In order to advance a more inclusive art history, the co-curators of this year's Whitney Biennial, Christopher Lew and Mia Locks, have selected works by artists of various races, classes, creeds, genders and sexual orientations — many of whom address the topic of identity and place in society.

Through its work, Iniva has continued to encourage the study and interrogation of cultural identity and difference, most recently in its 2011 exhibition Entanglement: the ambivalence of identity, but also previously in exhibitions such as Alien Nation (2007), which explored science - fiction, race and contemporary art and Veil (2003), which addressed the veneration and vilification of the veil in contemporary culture.

(The asterisks are for works by white artists that the VMFA uses to address race in an interesting way, as in the case of Jefferson Gauntt's Violet Anthony, a rare named portraits of an enslaved American.)

He was catapulted into the spotlight in 2001 as the youngest participant in the Studio Museum in Harlem's celebrated Freestyle exhibition, which featured black artists whose work unabashedly addresses race but eschews its potential to constrain artistic freedom.

The confrontational spirit of the video of Rodney King's beating is equally addressed in the work of Cameron Rowland, whose show at Artists Space last year linked incarceration, labor, and race through prisoner - made objects.

In many ways, his body of work addresses the human condition by exploring themes of ancestry, race, ethnic identity, and collective history.

While Boyce's early work addressed issues of race and gender in Britain, her more recent practice uses improvisation, installation, sound and performance to draw attention to and celebrate cultural difference.

His most well - known works are monumental, sculpture - based public art pieces as well as palm - sized sculptures, which often depict human figures, critique American society by addressing race, sex, class and money.

The work succeeds in questioning the blind spots of the Eurocentric art historical canon, addressing issues of race and race - relations in a decisively personal way.

Works by Faith Ringgold address issues of race, gender, and economic status.

We were looking at our alums and we found Ebony and got very interested in her work also because her work addresses issues, very pressing issues, of race and identity here in the United States.

Sunil Gupta will be leading a walk and discussion of works on display in the exhibition Sixty Years at the Tate Britain that crucially addressed race, gender, homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s.

Thomas is known for his extensive use of archival visual records to work through ideas that address the social constructions of race, gender, and commodity.

On the subject of the artist David Hammons, whose diverse work — from sculptures made with chicken bones and hair found in Harlem barbershops to a mural of a white Jesse Jackson — incisively addresses issues of race and power in American life, the New York art dealer Robert Mnuchin paraphrases Frank Sinatra: «He does it his way.»

This could be in bodies of work that address race, class, feminism or social justice, expressed in ways that are not forced but rather embedded within the curation and practice of participating artists.

These works often focus on the body as a contested site with regard to issues such as race, pornography and illegal immigration, but they also address such timeless themes as mortality, sexuality and childhood.

One of the most provocative and thoughtful artists of our time, Hank Willis Thomas sees his work in photography, video, and installation as an opportunity to address issues of race and identity as approached in advertising and popular culture.

April's segment of Five Works will showcase Alex Bradley Cohen, a painter who addresses the collective human experience in relation to ideas of class, race, gender, and sexual orientation.

Whether addressing issues of race, gender, sexuality, politics, or history - or seemingly remaining silent about them - the works featured offer powerful interpretations of cultural identity and artistic legacy.

The initial curatorial invocation of «personal and collective experiences of race and class» addressed by Simmons's art also flattens the work in a way that feels anathema to his recent subtler, more ambiguous tone, developed with a visible engagement with contemporary art as much as with the symbols of American race relations.

Beginning with researching at the Armistad Research Center, the history of African American blacksmiths and ornamental ironworkers in New Orleans and then applying this research to my current work addressing issues of race and gender and creativity.

Cole's work addresses social and political issues as they relate to the past and how we deal with issues of race through the use of sight, sound, and color.

«Over the course of 20 years Simmons has often used boxing as a leitmotif in his work to address the politics of race, class and professional sports,» the gallery notes.

Like most of Casteel's work, her new paintings — introspective and given largely to subjects seated in their natural environments — address relationships between individuals and the spaces they live in, often touching on issues related to class and race in the process.

In this new body of work, Mutu continues to address perceptions of conflicting cultural projections played out on the body through her contemplations on race and gender.

Hank Willis Thomas's photographs deconstruct the ways in which race and sexuality are exploited to brand and market male athletes; and Joe Sola's video works assume an outsider's perspective on football, addressing the social exclusivity of competitive athletics through humor and farce.

The group exhibition, Face Forward: Self - Image & Self - Worth, includes artists working across many platforms to address issues of identity, race, gender, status and societal values.

Widely recognized for her exquisite craftsmanship and bold themes addressing race and gender, WPA will show several examples of her beaded and glass works incorporating African sculpture.

Kruger uses the fluency she developed as a graphic designer for publications such as Mademoiselle, House & Garden, and Aperture, to inform her work as an artist, insistently addressing the issues of power, property, money, race, and sexuality.