Sentences with phrase «works challenge perceptions»

Using found imagery and archival materials, her works challenge perceptions of the past and raise questions about history, conflict, and collective memory.
Like Thomas, their work challenges perceptions of embattled cities and explores the human narratives that unfolded in communities across the United States.
The media and interaction designer's work challenges perceptions of interactive and digital projects.
As lenses through which we see and mirrors in which we are reflected, these works challenge our perception of and create new perspectives on the world around us.
Her work challenges the perception of femininity.
The work challenges perceptions of global migration and refugees at a time when immigrants are being vilified in public discourses.

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Changing forever conventional perceptions of how buyers in the social age work, collaborate, meet challenges, find solutions, engage with sellers, and ultimately make purchases.
The book The Invisible Gorilla uses research on how the mind works to challenge our ideas about attention, perception and reasoning.
«One of the challenges for people who do this work... is that there is this myth, this grossly inaccurate perception, about what is possible inside a prison,» says Castro.
This research study from the CCRC draws on data from 48 interviews with first - year students at City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) to examine student perceptions and challenges related to the system's guided pathways work.
The trust, on its website, says it is «committed to raising and sustaining the aspirations, expectations and confidence of students, working with staff and indeed the whole community to address the key challenges of assisting student personal development and enhancing parent and student perceptions of what can be achieved».
In this guest post he uses an interesting ecological example to demonstrate how biases work and then provides educators with an exercise to help students challenge their own perceptions to better understand people and the world around them.
This interconnectedness could pose challenges to schools looking to focus on making improvements in particular areas, but the correlations also indicate that by improving one area, a school could expect to improve teachers» perception of their work environment as a whole.
I want to fulfil, yet also challenge people's perception of traditional art by producing engaging works in which people question how it was produced, what medium was used and on what platform it was created on.»
These works use motifs found in popular and commercial culture, often presenting them in a way that challenges our perception and acceptance of these everyday goods and services, as well as everyday lives.
The body of work displays subject matter that attempts to challenge objectivity and subjectivity as well as challenge perceptions and constructs of visual form.
The resulting works push the limits of their utilitarian materials and challenge the viewer's perceptions.
Challenging traditional perceptions of artistic professions in Bangladesh, Rahman has pioneered a cross-media approach, working primarily as a performance artist and painter exploring sociopolitical conflicts shaping the history of Bangladesh and South Asia.
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.
Consistent with this background, the collective uses its work to propose new mythologies that combat dominant narratives: it challenges perceptions of Vietnam held in the American imagination and explores the relationships between memory, history, and the present.
In addition to the artist's own popular published writings, which detail the unique challenges facing female artists, Memory Work draws on unpublished manuscripts, private recordings, and never - before - seen working drawings to validate Truitt's original ideas about the link between perception and mnemonic reference in contemporary art.
She actively challenges viewers to question their perception of space through works that blur the line between two and three dimensions.
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»
From traditional and non-traditional paintings on canvas, to sculpture, video and photogram collages, this body of work transcends historical perceptions of abstraction and challenges the boundaries of the genre.
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.
Challenging the limits of perception, the work invites viewers to experience each other and the space in numerous, shifting, fractal reflections.
With a particular interest in perception and the spatial experience, their collective multimedia works challenge the experience of seeing and knowing.
These iconic black and white works - paintings, gouaches and prints - challenge the viewer's sensations and form the foundation of Riley's continued explorations of shape, movement and perception over the following four decades and continued today.
Zumbé's recent work gestures towards this challenge — that the appearance of an image can not be replicated across all states — while also confronting the program's intention to integrate the manipulation and perception of an image into a singular experience.
In recasting the functionality of standard materials, including light, the works in Between Spaces challenge the viewer's perception of domestic material conventions.
By deconstructing historical texts, the Chicago - based artist reimagines new works as patchworked paintings and installations to challenge people's perceptions of authority, exclusion, and equality.
The «Intentional Design» project's goal to raise awareness and change perceptions of mental illness dovetailed well with the aims of the Fountain House Gallery, which seeks to challenge the stigma around mental illness and provide an environment for artists living and working with mental illness to pursue their creative visions.
By focusing not on outer constructions but on the photograph as a constructed challenge to perception, this new body of work continues Engman's inquiry into the illusive and unknowable nature of reality.
His deft use of materials gathered in and around urban neighborhoods imbues his work with a visceral relationship to the real world, allowing him to challenge viewers» perceptions of familiar objects and experiences.
Displaying a wide array of Lassry's work in the Dakis Joannou Collection, this volume includes an essay by Tim Griffin that examines how the artist challenges the nature of our perception and questions the meaning of the contemporary image.
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.
Political, social and sexual themes run in concurrence within Mullan's relationship to his audience and in equal measures, the viewer is confronted with work that challenges ideas of perception and disorientation.
That's the message behind the latest perception - challenging work from Scottish artist Michael John Hunter.
Seidl maintains dual and equally intense practices in painting and photography, essentially exploring the same formal concerns, creating work in both mediums that draws us into her world, encouraging contemplation and challenging our perception of the often thin line between reality and abstracted memory.
His work is characterized by incisive observation and reinterpretation of banal subversive situations - in this way the artist challenges our habitual perceptions of reality.
Always proponents of «living art,» Secret Project Robot's most recent endeavor showcases the work of David Shull, an artist / musician who constantly challenges perceptions of «regular» reality, as he puts it.
Acts of Appearance represents the next tier in a highly diversified and rapidly evolving practice, featuring dramatic, confrontational works which challenge perceptions by staging the unexpected.
As is often the case in her work, Ms. Sze has not attempted to conceal her process but leaves it right out in the open for us to see, challenging us to question our willing acceptance of artifice in our perception of the world.
In breaking with many of the medium's conventions and straddling the border between East and West, Rebecca Salter's (UK, 1955) works offer the viewer an opportunity to challenge the normative canons of experiencing painting and the way such encounters influence one's perception of the world.
His work is often characterised by a sense of dichotomy that challenges traditional perceptions and cultural surroundings.
His works challenge our immediate experience, which begins with sensual perception and ends in activity.
He challenged perceptions of abstraction, with many of his works featuring popular imagery, family, friends, historical figures, and himself in a style that he called «a smorgasbord of the recognizable.»
The hard - edge, geometric compositions from Fleming's current body of work have a strong dialogue with the paintings from the 1960s, as both explore illusory effects and challenge visual perception.
Inspired by Picasso and de Kooning's use of line, the resulting pieces are linear, balanced works that challenge the viewer's natural perceptions.
Notwithstanding, for the observer this may be a visual challenge: her complex works evoke a developed form of perception, empowering us to see the three - dimensional.»
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