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Bryan Schutmaat

Bryan Schutmaat Work from Islands of the Blest. “I’ll come back to you in the hour of basalt and copper, back like floodwater pressing its shoulder against the ribs of the valley. When I rub bear fat into my boots a star disappears and the bones in my hand become a set of gears bringing […]

An-My Lê

An-My Lê Work from Small Wars. “At first glance, the photograph Small Wars (rescue) (1999–2002), appears to capture a frantic moment during a tense battle: A helicopter has been grounded and seems to have crashed, since smoke is pouring from its hull. A man in a camouflage uniform kneels on the ground, rifle cocked, prepared […]

Joachim Koester

Joachim Koester Work from their oeuvre. There is also a great overview of Koester’s work from Nicolai Wallner. “Joachim Koester uses strategies of montage, archiving and storytelling to illuminate and complicate historical events that form a collective mythical construction of the recent past. His works explore the legacies and mine the fictions that form around […]

Dionne Lee

Dione Lee Work from Trap and Lean-to at Lightwork. “Oakland, California-based artist Dionne Lee employs video, collage, photography, and sculpture to explore American landscape and her place within its complex history. As an African American woman, she sees the natural world as both a place of refuge and tranquility, but also the location of racial […]

Awoiska van der Molen

Awoiska van der Molen Work from The Living Mountain. “…Awoiska van der Molen’s audiovisual installation The Living Mountain (2022) shows the grand landscapes of the Südtirol Alps in Austria, the homeland of Thomas Larcher, composer of the accompanying music. In this compelling work, Van der Molen’s atmospheric black-and-white photography and the experimental score merge as […]

Mark Ruwedel

Mark Ruwedel Work from Westward. “Ruwedel is an artist who has been photographing American deserts and other remote locations for over 25 years, pursuing epic-scaled projects on railroad construction, Pre-Columbian sites, the landscapes of nuclear weapons, and more recently, failed attempts to live in the harsh environment of the desert. With an affinity for stark, […]

Ugo Rondinone

Ugo Rondinone Work from his oeuvre. “Ranging from installations and sculptures to psychedelic paintings and large-scale drawings, Ugo Rondinone’s eclectic practice explores the relationships between opposing forces—day and night, real and artificial, euphoria and depression. His most recognizable works are his colorful “Rocks” sculptures: vertically stacked rocks painted in fluorescent colors. Inspired by naturally occurring […]

Torkwase Dyson

Torkwase Dyson Work from A Liquid Place. “Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure and architecture. Dyson’s abstract works are visual and material systems used to construct fusions of surface tension, movement, scale, real and finite space. With an emphasis on the ways black […]

Farah Al Qasimi

Farah Al Qasimi Work from Arrival. “Arrival, Farah Al Qasimi’s third solo exhibition at The Third Line. Using the language of horror cinema, Al Qasimi reveals a new body of work featuring jinn folklore across the UAE. “The show premieres Farah’s first feature-length film; a 40 minute horror-comedy titled Um Al Naar (Mother of Fire). […]

John Pfahl

John Pfahl Work from Altered Landscapes. “In his series Altered Landscapes, Pfahl physically changes the environment, fabricating the view to question our perception of the landscape through added elements that reference mark-making devices associated with photographs, maps, plans, and diagrams. These gestures sometimes repeat strong formal components; fill in information suggested by the scene, or […]