Resplendent with beads, Christmas tree lights, collaged images, wood grain paper and, in one case, car fresheners, the 10 paintings here argue noisily that Mr. Spurrier's idiosyncratic painting technique, which uses surfaces made of tautly stretched Scotch tape, is as limitless in its possibilities as more traditional materials.
Resplendent with beads, Christmas tree lights, collaged images, wood grain paper and, in one case, car fresheners, the 10 paintings here argue noisily that Mr. Spurrier's idiosyncratic painting technique -- which involves surfaces made of tautly stretch Scotch tape -- is as limitless in its possibilities as more traditional materials.
With a daily diet of paper protein, paper grain, paper vegetables and fruit, you've covered all the tenets of the paper food pyramid.
Many different ways of using nontraditional images, materials, forms and techniques are represented, from early Cubist collages by Picasso, Braque and Gris that incorporate newsprint and wood-grain paper to the suave, agitprop montages of Barbara Kruger, printed on matchbooks and a shopping bag.
Manufacturing, farming, lumbering, and port operations (including the shipping of grain, lumber, paper, cable, and canned foods) provide a diversified economic base.
It's related to the fancy that what one loves about books is the grain of paper and the scent of glue.
As Louis Menand writes in his suave introduction to MASSCULT AND MIDCULT: Essays Against the American Grain (New York Review Books, paper, $16.95), a new greatest-hits assemblage of Macdonald's essays, "He not only enjoyed provoking; he liked to be provoked".
For this show she has created a library of invented titles and displayed them on bookshelves covered with wood-grain-patterned paper, right.
My place may not be perfect, you think, but at least I don't have fake-wood-grain Contac paper on my kitchen cabinets.
Ms. Taylor began inching toward her current métier in 2001, shortly after graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., when she found some wood-grain contact paper in a 99-cent store and suddenly got the urge to use it to make a portrait of her best friend as she had looked in first grade.
Entire sheets are covered with a layer of lightly rubbed graphite that brings out the grain of the paper and gives it graphic life.
