Jason DeMarte Work from the series Utopic and Commercial Appeal. DeMarte’s use of the dyptich is really stunning. Shown in order.  “Utopic investigates how the artificial nature of our modern day interpretation of the natural world compares to the way we approach our immediate consumer world. I am interested in modes of representing the natural […]

Penelope Umbrico Work from the series TVs, Office / Still Lives (as Photocopies), and Mirrors. Umbrico is a photographer/curator of sorts who sources home improvement catalogues/websites  as  fodder for cultural/conceptual commentary. Her website is full of great projects,  that only  afraction of are represented here. Some others that I didn’t have the space to publish […]

Industry of the Ordinary Work from the projects  Industry of the Ordinary is the collaborative performance art/sculpture team of Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson. Their manifesto is: “Through sculpture, text, photography, video, sound and performance Industry of the Ordinary are dedicated to an exploration and celebration of the customary, the everyday, and the usual. Their […]

Nikki S. Lee Work from the series Parts. As promised, more work that deals with the medium of photography and photographic seeing. Statement courtesy of the Numark Gallerey, where you can see more of Lee’s works. “In Parts, the artist departs from the snapshot depictions of cultural identity for which she has become internationally known […]

Brad Farwell Work from the series Lottery. I also reccommend An African Mask Looks at Sites of American Blackness and Fourth, the Tourists. Farwell’s Lottery work reminds me of Nikki S. Lee, who I guess I will have to post tomorrow, because it is awesome. “Large, vision-filling photographs, minutely detailed, with rectangles of metallic silver […]

  Joe Hardesty Work from the series Text Drawings. Hardesty’s work with text drawings is a conceptually compelling look at the content of photographs and how one reads an image. “I make seemingly simple drawings on paper that address ambiguous and contradictory aspects of our cultural landscape. By focusing viewers’ attention primarily through the use […]

Elise Rasmussen Work from the series, Within These Walls and Stendhal Syndrome. I wanted to continue the tradition of finding any out-of-focus work I can and posting it.  While I can’t determine whether she has ever lived or worked in Germany (to strengthen my theory about blurry photography and Germany), she did have a residency […]

Precise Equilibrium, 2008. Fire, 2008. A balloon in a room, 2008. My breath in a car #1, 2008. Adam Ekberg “Using large and medium format cameras as well as video to document performances, constructions, and lens-based phenomena; my images function as traces of a presence. The photographed interventions range from very simple gestures to elaborate […]

Isabelle Krieg Work curently showing at Substitut-Berlin if you are in Berlin, go to this show. There is a great range of work, and some fantastic artists’ books on sale.

leonardogillesfleur An are collective consisting of Leonardo Giacomuzzo and Gilles-Fleur Boutry, leonardogillesfleur’s work addresses the temporal nature of video work and photography, with many pieces serving as (mostly) static re-enactments of snapshots, where physical strain/time betray the nature of the pieces as video. They also have some fairly hilarious visual pun and analogue mash-up work […]