DUBAI: Saudi artist Sarah Brahim is making waves with her multidisciplinary collaborative work — ahead of her showing at the Lyon Biennale in September, the Riyadh-based choreographer, dancer and artist discussed her contemporary art. Brahim, 30, has studied dance since she was just three years old, an education that she says was a fundamental preparation for her career as visual artist. “My background in ...
PORT ANGELES — Elementary students are blooming with creativity in an exhibit at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The Blooming Artists Exhibit will be on display from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays beginning this Thursday and continuing through June 19. On Tuesday, the center at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd. in Port Angeles hosted a reception for the student artists from ...
Diversity on display in Sarasota Bayfront Park in Sarasota has more than 50 billboard-sized works on art that celebrate diversity on display through April 10. SARASOTA, Fla. - Every year, the not-for-profit Embracing our Differences hosts an international art competition with the theme of enriching lives through diversity and inclusion. The 19th annual event is at Bayfront Park and features 50 billboard-sized works of ...
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — You can now experience African culture through digital art inside the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art. A collaboration between ARTECHOUSE and London-based visual artist Vince Fraser, "Aṣẹ: Afro Frequencies" is a multi-sensory digital art installation examining the Black experience through Fraser's eyes. "I tend to take things from the past and then bring them into the present, so I will take historical references ...
Cliff McGaha's creations are filled with surprises and songs.One looks like a moonshine still; the sculpted head of the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, complete with tiny glasses, floats in another. One is Rolling Stones-themed, with red lips, lolling tongue and a high-hat cymbal; another evokes Egypt, with its clear pyramid and pharaoh hounds. There's even one that can be used to practice putting a ...
Carefully calibrated geometry, combined with refined and sumptuous color relationships, is a hallmark of Dorothea Rockburne’s art. “Giotto’s Angels and Knots,” an exhibition at David Nolan Gallery, features twenty-three abstract compositions with graceful lines and painterly touches in predominantly blue tones, inspired by Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel murals in Padua, Italy (c. 1305), as well as two freestanding sculptures, seemingly nonchalant arrangements of drab household ...
December 6, 2021 Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2021 graduates.For Ella Burrus, being an artist has never been just a hobby. Ella Burrus is the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate student for fall 2021. Download Full Image As the fall 2021 New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student prepares ...
“The mind was following, not guiding.” This is how Olga de Amaral looks back at her own work, from the lofty summit of a nearly seven-decade career. “Very little planning went into it,” she says in her most recent catalogue. “It all happened in the moment, following impulses, the intuitions of the moment that came in the process of doing. My creative language developed ...
Madison Whittle is a junior pursuing a BFA with a concentration in Graphic Design and a Certificate in User Experience. When a new extended reality (XR) lab opened on campus, WKU faculty encouraged Whittle to join. "WKU Art & Design Department Head Kristina Arnold approached me to ask if I would be interested in virtual reality (VR) research," Whittle said. "I didn't have any ...
