In 1998, the Flecks hired Ms. Shim and Mr. Sutcliffe, whose firm, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, is known for thoroughly modern spaces assembled with sensuous materials.

Like Ms. Chun, Carrie Mae Weems uses sensuous materials to draw the viewer into her analytical web.

They aim at elucidating the higher and spiritual element in aesthetic impressions, appearing to ignore any capability in the sensuous material of affording a true aesthetic delight.

She wanted to feel the sensuous material against her skin.

She smiled at her reflection in the dressing room mirror and let her hands feel the sensuous material as it lay across her stomach.

I found my hands working unconsciously, putting some shape back into the hat, making the crease in the top, my thumbs feeling the sensuous material.

A strength of the work is precisely its insistence on paint as a viscous, sensuous material, put down in a studious, home-grown manner, carefully unvirtuosic.

Emphasis is on unusual and sensuous materials, like buttery suede and plump quilting.

But for much of its history, it has also called to mind something altogether different: soft, flowing forms and sensuous materials.

Sara Crisp enlivens her minimalist grids by constructing them of sensuous materials and playing them off against organic forms.