JK Keller Works from Tantamount, and Insecurity Envelopes, and A Fictitious Argument Emerges Between Coriolis & Beaufort Work from his massive and thouroughly engaging website. Keller’s work is a collection of pieces interventions into reality that serve to recontextualize objects, images, and media. Also see his blog. Tantamount: “Photographs of mountains are computationally altered to flatten […]
Archives for the ‘conceptual’ Category
Paul van den Hout
Monday, 20 April 2009
Paul van den Hout Work from the series Pixelation. Paul van den Hout’s work, Pixelation, addresses the visual codes of the pixelated image. “The pixel (and pixelation) is a part of our visual code, and a pixelated image has two functions, one denying the viewer access to the complete image, and the other protecting them […]
Mayumi Lake
Sunday, 19 April 2009
Mayumi Lake Work from Poo-Chi. Poo-Chi is a deceptive and hilarious body of work that seemed like the perfect Sunday post. Enjoy. “The images in this book are not what they at first appear to be. Look again, and closely. Mayumi Lake’s series of color photographs focuses on the wakinoshita, presenting this often neglected […]
Michelle Forsyth
Friday, 17 April 2009
Michelle Forsyth Work from Text Work. These pieces are made by punching out small circles of paper in a way that replicates the print pattern of a newspaper press. Forsythe’s other work has a conceptually similar approach, using tedium and repitition to force reconsideration of contemporary imagery. “For the past several years my work has […]
Spencer Finch
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Spencer Finch Work from Prussian Blue and others. Finch’s work is a great conceptual examination of light and color, and I have only posted a small sampling of it here. Descriptions (in order): Sky (Over Coney Island, November 26th, 2004, 12:47pm. Southwest view over the Cyclone.) | 2004, balloons, helium and string. Installation at Miami […]
Chiharu Shiota
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Chiharu Shiota Work from Inside/Outside, Lebensspuren (Traces of Life) and Trauma / Alltag. Reviews of all sorts can be found here. Goff + Rosenthal has a great collection of her work as well. Spend some time on her site, there is tons of great work there. I saw the Lebensspuren installation last fall in Berlin, […]
Daniel Eatock
Monday, 6 April 2009
Daniel Eatock Work from Quarter Mile Groove (video), Closed Loops, and Best Before October 26, 2008. Eatock’s site is a massive database of work that should be perused at leisure. ____________________ Quarter Mile Groove “The recording translates the length of its vinyl groove into audio allowing listeners to experience the 1/4 mile length of […]
Scarlett Hooft Graafland
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Scarlett Hooft Graafland Work from the pieces, Polar Bear, The Journey, Salt, and Lemonade Igloo (in order). “Using naïve and childlike colour palettes her photographs draw on the language of the surreal showing familiar objects out of context (a llama wearing balloons, top hats flying through the desert and a pair of naked legs entwined […]
Kevin Van Aelst
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Kevin Van Aelst This work reminds me of the Isabella Krieg show I saw last week, check out her work too. “Subjects of my color photographs include every day foods and objects: bread, doughnuts, crackers, candy, floor tile, sweaters, and lint. These simple materials are arranged into shapes and patterns inspired by formulas found in […]
Helmut Smits
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Helmut Smits Work from: Dead Pixel in Google Earth, Parking for White Cars Only, FLAMMA and Skirting Board Sunset. I urge you to check out his entire public works section, all of the pieces are smart and compelling. “I believe that every situation, thought or object carries a good work of art in itself. I […]