armatures

The moving coils of wire or "armatures" should rotate freely without touching the iron pole-pieces of the fixed portion of the machine.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

Broken armatures are decked out with amoebic limbs; organic substances abutted against geometric plastic.

This week's new exhibitions 2012

Jacqueline Schmidt 'At the Cabin,' 14 x 12 x 12 inches, both by Jacqueline Schmidt For five years, the artist, designer and creative director of New York's kid-centric cafe Moomah, has turned wooden armatures into fantastical microenvironments: a living room inhabited by giraffes, a lush English garden, an epoxy-and-resin waterfall with a mermaid mid-dive.

Design's Smaller Pleasures 2012

That's fine, but what keeps this show from being nothing much more than historical nostalgia Mallary died in 1997 are his sinister figures made from resin-impregnated tuxedos and steel armatures, which could take on one of Louise Bourgeois's spiders.

ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011

That's fine, but what keeps this show from being nothing much more than historical nostalgia Mallary died in 1997 are his sinister figures made from resin-impregnated tuxedos and steel armatures, which could take on one of Louise Bourgeois's spiders.

ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011

The country was put into the hands of armatures that interfered with the professionals because “they knew best” for 8 years.

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Her framed wall pieces ( "Eye," "Glass"), with their twig-like wire armatures and paper skins, look like diagrams or X-rays of three-dimensional sculptures.

ArtScene: California Exhibitions that Keep the Summer Hot 2010

Her framed wall pieces ( "Eye," "Glass"), with their twig-like wire armatures and paper skins, look like diagrams or X-rays of three-dimensional sculptures.

ArtScene: California Exhibitions that Keep the Summer Hot 2010

Fashioned by District schoolkids working with metal armatures created by Adam Curtis of Gaithersburg-based Design-Weld, the insects hover above storefronts (Home Rule, Pulp, Room & Board), a restaurant (Busboys & Poets), a community center (Martha's Table) and a theater (Source).

ARTS BRIEFS 2010

Her framed wall pieces ( "Eye," "Glass"), with their twig-like wire armatures and paper skins, look like diagrams or X-rays of three-dimensional sculptures.

ArtScene: California Exhibitions that Keep the Summer Hot 2010