Sentences with phrase «wry work»

Pavlisko layered Harold «Doc» Edgerton's stop - motion photographs with vintage NBA posters, and the consequent accumulation of balls, baskets, and explosions (to which Pavlisko added comically melodramatic sculptures of drooping violins) made wry work of athletic machismo.

In her wry work, Moon combines visual references from East and West, challenging the notion of a static cultural identity.

Bound by an overarching sincerity and a yearning for the ideal, Tony Tasset's wry work has confronted the confluences of art, contemporary culture and the everyday since the mid-1980s.

Emma Amos's wry work on paper mimics several tropes of fashion magazines, transferring the advice column model of self - improvement to her experience as a black woman trying to make it in the art world.

Not exact matches

Among the safe - for - work passages is this wry exchange that closes out the brief Q&A:

The Sportswriter's cosmopolitan milieu of death - denying Jersey suburbs and wry commentary on New York magazine journalism has made its author more accessible to professors, who will start working him into their curriculum.

This work is a wry look at this attitude.

«Love bombing entails spending a period of time alone with your child, offering them unlimited love and control,» says James, whose previous works include How Not to — Them Up, a wry inversion of Philip Larkin's bittersweet observations on parenting.

I watch with wry amusement as the Westminster tribe try and work out how to do so.

I made a wry comment that they seemed not to appreciate, and then went right to work.

Yet anyone whose last will and testament demanded the establishment of a Nick Cave Memorial Museum clearly has a sharp sense of humour, and Forsyth and Pollard (who have worked with Cave before on projects such as short film series Do You Love Me Like I Love You) are as wry, dry and entertaining as their subject.

Wilson does the same down - to - earth, wry - humor shtick that has worked numerous times before and almost works here.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, like the other films co-concocted by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, BEST IN SHOW, and A MIGHTY WIND, is a wry exercise in improvisation by an intrepid cast working from scenarios and guided only by their imagination and daring.

If your work entails programming or anything related to the nuts and bolts of digital technology, you're unlikely to encounter anything in this brisk feature that you haven't contemplated at length; but if you spend a good portion of your waking life online, as increasing numbers of viewers do, but take it for granted, you may appreciate the way Herzog comes into the the subject: from a borderline - layman's perspective, wry and curious.

Based on one of the early cases taken up by future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall when he was working for the NAACP, the film proceeds without much subtlety, though with a filigree of witty dialogue and Chadwick Boseman's panache as the wry, natty young attorney.

One of the most offbeat and interesting sections involve the perpetually cigar - clutching aristocrat, whose home is a monument to bad taste and who dons a traditional cape to welcome visitors, which features some of the director's wryest images, while the paramedic, who's seen at work and at home, strikes an affecting figure.

It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the film's award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations about masculinity and aging that have marked out Payne's best previous work.

The movie tries earnestly to blend wry humor with a no - nonsense charm deemed appropriate for its working - class characters, but the acting and scripting are too uneven for either the drama or the comedy to gather much steam.

Also valuable and worth noting is «La Vie En Rose» which of course featured a spectacular turn by Marion Cotillard that was unexpectedly celebrated by Oscar, Zoe Cassavetes «severely underrated, wry and sweet, «Broken English,» which includes a very winning and charming turn by Parker Posey; Susanne Bier «s Danish drama, «After the Wedding» and perhaps surprisingly equally engaging, her underrated survival and recovery drama, «Things We Lost In The Fire,» which is made great by Benicio Del Toro (and even Halle Berry evinces that she's capable of good work in spots), Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul «s always mysterious and bifurcated, «Syndromes And A Century» (which has elements of both sci - fi and comedy).

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

The film is embellished in a charmingly wry style, with a lilting melodic wonder telling a bona fide fable of a working man's plight.

It's an approach that could have easily played pretentiously and yet it somehow works with such elements as straight Alec Baldwin narration, a New York City that stretches at least to the 375th Street YMCA, an unsightly Gypsy Cab company monopoly, an improbably resurfacing pet hawk, and various wry press conferences and engagements.

It's a powerful ensemble, all of them working perfectly with the movie's mixture of wry, grim humor and disquiet contemplation.

The tone is dark and wry but there is an overall sprightliness that speaks of people who actually like each other having fun working together.

What might have worked with the wry, lighter tone of Repo Man seems more ambiguous in Walker, where Cox accelerates the sort of leftist politics that define his work when humour is not at the fore.

Winstead's shift into action mode works; her wry, affecting underplaying keeps the film companionable in its clammy way.

From the author whose work The New Yorker calls «strong» and «timeless» comes a wry and beautifully distilled portrait of one woman's resilience in the face of loneliness, and of a union that transcends life's most unexpected and challenging circumstances.

Literary agent Jason Allen Ashlock — whose Movable Type Management has created the new Rogue Reader author collective — told the room with a wry smile that an author working alone in the business today may not be adept at what's needed, «no matter how many times you've read Guy Kawasaki's book.»

Brighting's wry delivery is reminiscent of and every bit as strong as Logan Cunningham's work in Bastion or Ellen McLain's in Portal.

Coming from Edelson, who began working as an activist during the civil rights movement, the homage to a woman who struck back at her violent husband reads as a wry monument to direct action.

His Cardboards 1971 - 2 — a wry comment on the forces of globalisation — and his sumptuous fabric works such as the Jammers 1975 - 6 — inspired by his visit to the Indian textile centre of Ahmedabad — demonstrate his skilful play with unconventional materials.

Their kinship is perhaps best captured by their own wry comments on their process, which Reinhardt described as «boring, drudging,» and Baer as «idiot work.»

Her work has personal, associative quality, a hint of chance and randomness, and a wry humor that softens its minimal characteristics, the serial order and modular repetition intrinsic to her paintings.

Together with the works on paper is a hand - sewn soft sculpture of two intertwined snakes - a male and a female - decadently dressed, offering a wry statement on the privileged social systems media imagery exploits.

An outlier among the well - known generation of young artists who emerged in London in the 1990s, Landy shares their wry attitude towards the marketplace, although his works have never celebrated their status as commodity - objects or luxury goods.

An introduction to the Californian Conceptual artist's witty work, from his wry text paintings to his colorfully dotted film stills.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results - referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

The piece, crookedly titled Ground Potential (all works 2013), is a wry opening note for the seventeen works on view; a collection strongest in sculptures that are judiciously composed and surprisingly economical in form and origin.

Yet the domestic and figurative roots of his work afford visual intimacy, even when he is working on a public scale, which he does with immense if wry conviction.

Teraoka is a renowned artist and human rights advocate who's work explores difficult subject matters through fantasy, humor, history, and wry observations on present - day life.

And when Herrera talks about this work, it's often with a little bit of a smile, a wry sense of humor that she's created a very simple geometric, clean, spare painting but that it's a barbecue, as she says.

On closer inspection it is easy to identify his allusion to various YBAs in the works of art he illustrates, in his wry homage to a Saatchi Gallery show.

In reproduction, this work reads as smart and wry — a sleek visual stylization of audio aggression.

Using wry humor to upset expectations about so - called high art and the meaning of its placement in a commercial space, the works are also indicative of the importance language plays in the artist's practice.

Taken from Paul Gagner's titular work, A Series of Moves references the practicality of creating a composition, with all three of the artists using a table, most often the studio table, as the setting for their wry take on the long history of still - life.

Because of the multiplicity of objects in her work, it is sometimes interpreted as a wry comment on consumerism.

In Jose Lerma's most recent sculptural painting using the largest polo shirt you could possibly imagine, he combines his well - known paint blobs into a work full of fresh and cynically wry humor.

Some 50 years later, Margarita Cabrera also makes soft sculpture, but updated with wry awareness of poor working conditions in factories, in Mexico and elsewhere, supplying the U.S. market.

Hecker often masks a work's content with a sardonic wit, but selecting her «anomalies» as the constituents of her award exhibition may be Hecker's wryest joke yet.

He exaggerates these figures to the point of vulgarity in works that are both tour de force of the grotesque and wry political commentaries on the imagery promoted by marketers and advertisers in Japan.