At his studio in his villa in the southern city of Abha, Ahmed Mater, 33, who has exhibited at the British Museum and the Venice Biennale, describes how his work incorporates both social critique and respect for religion.
CEDRIC SMITH Smith, a painter based in Georgia, who has often collaged vintage photographs of African-American subjects into his work, incorporates the same sort of anonymous, flea-market material into his first show of photographs.
He insisted on a literary dimension to his work, incorporating texts by novelists, poets and philosophers -- as well as visual-art and dance components, when time and money allowed.
His work incorporates different forms of graffiti and typography onto glossy abstractions in nature.
His style is pop art meets abstract expressionism, and his work incorporates an eclectic range of subject matter, from portraits and landscapes to iconic cartoon characters.
Though the language barrier limits his interaction with locals, his work incorporates the complexity of the urban situation, as well as information shaped by the sociopolitical factors he observes.
It also happens to be the centenary of the birth of one of its founders, the composer John Cage — famous for his use of sounds derived from tin cans, automobile-brake drums, and flowerpots, and for his works incorporating silence.
His work as a critic reflected his encyclopaedic mind and scientific training, and his poetry showed him to be the most important poet of midcentury, his works incorporating themes drawn from art and music while also sharply criticizing Portugal's repressive sociopolitical reality.
Much of his recent work incorporates a composite of bone china and synthetic resin that enables Sperlein to create thin, translucent ceramic sheets like the ones found in his ethereal lighting fixtures.
