Archives for the ‘conceptual’ Category

Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian Work from the series Sorted Books. She has dozens of amazing projects. Video, Sculpture, Public Projects, Photography, and much more. Spend an hour on her website. “The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private […]

Michael Love

Michael Love Work from the projects, Self Portrait with Rifle, and the Library Appropriation Project. I bumped into his website today, and he may just be one of my new favorite artists. Good job Canada. Statement from Library Appropriation Project below, statement from Self Portrait with Rifle attached to image above (done by me for […]

Liz Deschenes

Liz Deschenes Work from Registration. I am hugely into the process/photographically referential work by Deschenes, and the critical approach to the medium. Below is a section of the press release from Miguel Abreu Gallery. “If the photographic image can be said to have replaced the immediate experience of nature as the common ground of human […]

Lori Nix

Lori Nix Work from Accidentally Kansas and The City. I was making scale model disasters last year before I saw this work. I am very glad I quit before I saw her models, because they put mine to shame. “The line between truth and illusion in photography is one that has been frequently crossed by […]

Kerry Skarbakka

Kerry Skarbakka Work from the series Fluid, The Struggle to Right Oneself, and Life Goes On. Detailed statements are on the website.

Ian Whitmore

Ian Whitmore Work from the series Nowhere. Great work that addresses American use of landscaping (both indoor and outdoor).

Urban Camouflage

Urban Camouflage, work from the only body of work that I know they (he/she?) have. Urban Camouflage deals with the question how to camouflage oneself and one’s identity in the urban space. Our costumes are inspired by the ghillie suits, the military camouflage suit. It was an adventure to wear the suit in the stores […]

Yevgeniy Fiks

Yevgeniy Fiks Work from the piece Lenin For Your Library? I saw a show the Fiks was a part of at the Art Laboratory Berlin recently and there was a fantastic piece which I could not find on the internet. Opposite the wall of letters from various corporate libraries was the piece described below (by […]

Marc Volk

Marc Volk Work from the series Speed, Raster 384, Same Time / Same Place (top to bottom). Volk’s work (particularly Raster 384 and Same Time / Same Place) recalls Probst’s process oriented conceptual work from Exposures. In Raster 384 and Same Time / Same Place Volk uses extreme crops of a single image to provide […]

David A. Parker

I saw David A. Parker‘s photographs in a show a couple of years back and have continued to be intrigued by his “Escape Strategies” series.  I also like the “Circular Reasoning” series: