After all, the museum had been designed by Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect whose transcendently simple concrete buildings have elevated a lowly material to the level of highest luxury.
Sofield has been using a lot of industrially based materials in his work, like steel mesh used in bakery conveyor belts for floor covering, and rubber upholstery -- on which he puts leather piping to add a touch of luxury to an otherwise lowly material.
"But it was really Mockbee the charismatic who said, 'You self-righteous, snobby kids, you'll have to touch the real world.' " In his junior year, he took a pottery class and became entranced, he says, with "the magic of taking the lowliest material on earth — mud — and turning it into something beautiful and useful".
According to the critics and curators interviewed in the film, the main reason he doesn't is the fact that he works in the lowliest material on earth.
What unites the two artists, other than a vivid portrayal of life, is a reliance on unusual or lowly art materials.
Collective regional identity is the theme of a second show at Yale ."Southern Exposure: Works by Winfred Rembert and Hale Woodruff". What unites the two artists, other than a vivid portrayal of life, is a reliance on unusual or lowly art materials.
There he showed a group of large works, based on flip-top cigarette packets, that projected from the walls, or reached out across the floor, raising the lowly source material to an epic scale and revolutionising the boundaries of painting practice.
This wringing of sexual power out of physical nonconformity is one variant of a longstanding, and perhaps definitional, feature of black life in the West namely, a knack for spinning lowly, even ugly, materials up and into the realm of art.
This wringing of sexual power out of physical nonconformity is one variant of a longstanding, and perhaps definitional, feature of black life in the West — namely, a knack for spinning lowly, even ugly, materials up and into the realm of art.
