The artist Urs Fischer casts a continual spell, working all manner of materials into forms that allure the senses, the mind and of course, the collectors.
Manhattan Through Oct. 7 Working only when the spirit seized him, the Indian painter Acharya Vyakul (1930-2000) used all manner of materials -- plants, cow's urine, clay, coal, flowers and powders -- to produce his small, simple but highly charged watercolors.
Around 40 works of varying sizes and using all manner of materials – including wood, metal, cardboard, ceramics, rubber, chrome, leather and marble – are included in the show that opens to the public on Wednesday.
His seven grays and not-grays, teasingly illusory, are perpetrated by all manner of materials, ranging from yarn to fluorescent fixtures to tiny overall dots of adhesive paper to plain acrylic paint.
In addition, the sculptural medium has expanded exponentially over the past century and especially the last several decades, incorporating all manner of materials and found objects, focusing on context and space itself in new ways, and turning even to social interaction.
Video pictures at the time showed all manner of materials caught in the flow, from upturned boats and cars to whole buildings picked up off their foundations.
This manner of material cracking is similar case for in-service cracked stringers.
Friedrich Petzel Gallery and Electronic Arts Intermix 535 West 22nd Street, Chelsea Reena Spaulings 165 East Broadway, Lower East Side All through tomorrow Seth Price's dandyish form of Goth continues to zigzag between relatively rudimentary and advanced appropriation, recycling all manner of material, including his own work.
So bombarded are we with the notion of whisking children in town cars from Dalton to Teterboro that another reality is obscured — a city full of families living in tiny apartments and accustomed to all manner of material denial so that they can pay tuitions for schools they genuinely love for reasons beyond a glorification of status.
Made from every manner of material--from ivory and brass to animal teeth and mother-of-pearl--tampers come in a wonderful variety of motifs, including a horse's hind leg, a bust of Oliver Cromwell, a milkmaid and, yes, a human finger.
Ask him what inspires his monumental assemblages, made from twisted metal, tree branches, cloth, plastic toys, animal bones and all manner of found materials, and he is likely to respond tersely, as he did while showing me around his studio here one bone-chilling day last month.
