Lucy and Jorge Orta Work from their oeuvre. “Her sculptural work investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture, exploring their common social factors, such as communication and identity. Lucy uses the media of sculpture, public intervention, video, and photography to realize her work. Her most emblematic artworks include Refuge Wear and Body Architecture (1992–98), […]
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Rolf Nowotny
Monday, 27 August 2012
Rolf Nowotny Work from his oeuvre. “So “mouthbreather” is a derogatory term for someone who for whatever reason doesn’t breathe through the nose but through the mouth, obviously. These people just seem to bumble through life with open faces and in the drizzling rain they might even squint their eyes and their tongues hang out […]
Meriç Algün Ringborg
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Meriç Algün Ringborg Work from The Risk of Being in Public “The risk of being in public is accidentally appearing on a photograph.” -Diane Arbus “The Risk of Being in Public is a yearlong journal containing 136 notations where each account describes a photograph taken in public by an unknown person in which the artist has noticed […]
Jacinda Russell
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Jacinda Russell Work from Nine Fake Cakes and Nine Bodies of Water. “I photograph worn, dilapidated objects with a history that expresses loss and sadness. These forms are ultimately self-portraits, communicating to the viewer significant memories that I am unwilling to let go. Spring 2010 featured several personal and career related disappointments and for the […]
Marthe Elise Stramrud
Friday, 24 August 2012
Marthe Elise Stramrud Work from Livingroom Poetics. “In Livingroom Poetics Marthe Elise Stramrud has photographed ordinary objects in her apartment. Creating new situations amongst things that surround her, the images explore the harmony between objects that exist in our everyday lives. The relations caused by and within them turn our minds towards the gesture of […]
Boris Meister
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Boris Meister work from Above the Cloud “Created by Boris Meister at ECAL, Above the Cloud is an atlas about social networks archeology, death and digital marks left in distress on the internet. Boris attempts to present the complex subject and, above all, explain it by creating an object – book, both in its structure, images and layout. Over […]
William Betts
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
William Betts Work from his oeuvre. “The works of William Betts operate less like paintings and more like moments captured in time. Featured in editions #60, #72, and #84 of New American Paintings, Betts uses video stills and technological applications to inform his compositions, where some works are both a reproduction and an original, stretching […]
Casey James Wilson
Monday, 20 August 2012
Casey James Wilson Work from his oeuvre. “The peculiar reverence we have for natural forms, including fabricated imitations, is central in this current body of work as a way of looking at materiality and cultural trends. Images constructed in the studio documenting found detritus of casual happenstance are juxtaposed with scenes recorded outside to expose […]
Marc Swanson
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Marc Swanson Work from his oeuvre. “Drawing variously on the traditions of Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucas Samaras, Kenneth Anger and Bruce Connor, Swanson’s work is an elaborate marriage of diverse materials and ideas. Swanson identifies chiefly as a sculptor, but he also makes films, photographs and complex installations… …Despite its diversity, Swanson’s body of […]
Nova Jiang
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Nova Jiang work form Landscape Abbreviated “Landscape Abbreviated is a kinetic maze consisting of modular elements with rotating planters, which form a garden that is simultaneously a machine. I am interested in the way that simple interventions can make the experience of space dynamic and unpredictable. The planters are controlled by a software program that […]