Posts tagged Mixed Media

“In February 1983 in Rochester, NY, I found a set of Compton’s Encyclopedias, (circa 1950), bound them together using thick rope, built a pyramidal structure, and hung them in my backyard. The piece is entitled, Books of Knowledge Standing Up Against the Elements that I photographed through seasonal changes and locations wherever I lived.” [more]

Doug Beube, Books of Knowledge Standing Up Against the Elements, 1989

[Altered books, burnt Enclyclopedias]

Maliheh Afnan, Veiled Merriment, Mixed media on paper, 2008

Maliheh Afnan, Veiled Merriment, Mixed media on paper, 2008

“Schor’s work balances political and theoretical concerns with formalist and material passions. Her work has included major periods in which gendered narrative and representation of the body have been featured, in other periods the focus of her work has been representation of language in drawing and paintings.” [+] Mira Schor, Book of Pages #8 (detail: “Portugal and Auschwitz”), 1976 Mixed media on rice paper

“Schor’s work balances political and theoretical concerns with formalist and material passions. Her work has included major periods in which gendered narrative and representation of the body have been featured, in other periods the focus of her work has been representation of language in drawing and paintings.” [+]

Mira Schor, Book of Pages #8 (detail: “Portugal and Auschwitz”), 1976

Mixed media on rice paper

Bernar Venet, Two minor arcs of 11.5 and 24.5 degrees (1978) Mixed media, pencil and collage on cardboard

Bernar Venet, Two minor arcs of 11.5 and 24.5 degrees (1978)

Mixed media, pencil and collage on cardboard

A Balasubramaniam, Untitled, Mixed media on board, 2002

A Balasubramaniam, Untitled, Mixed media on board, 2002

A Balasubramaniam, Limited from Unlimited II, Mixed media print on paper, 2000

A Balasubramaniam, Limited from Unlimited II, Mixed media print on paper, 2000