Oliver Laric Work from Icon (Utrecht). “At the level of the image, the determinations of the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648), as in so many other incidents of iconoclastic ‘image-breaking’ leading up to the present day, were predicated on a clear-cut Manichean sense of difference. During this period, statues and images of a religious order were subjected […]

Stephanie Syjuco Work from her Temporal Aggregate/ Social Configuration (Borrowed Beuys) and Unsolicited Fabrications: Shareware Sculptures. “My recent projects use objects and surfaces that look strangely familiar, manipulating conventions of style and structure to create “mixed-use” items. I have focused my work on issues of “illicit capitalism”—bootlegs, knock-offs, and the reworked commodity—in an attempt to […]

David Horvitz Work from his Photographs from 2009 and a bonus screen capture. Horvitz also has some other fantastic projects/performances/interventions on his website. All photographs can be seen on this blog. Printable files (in zip) can be downloaded here. A selection of 51 photographs from 2009 printed at 4″ x 6″ and contained inside a […]

Mark Wyse Work from Disavowal. “Disavowal is an engagement with our conflicted relationship to desire. If in a crude sense modernism is an embrace of desire and postmodernism is a critique of that desire, this show seeks to commingle the two. In doing so it explores key works by both contemporary and historical artists who […]

Sean Higgins Work from Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel. “Through his pieces, Higgins prods at the human instinct to associate images with the familiar. Namely, there is a tendency for viewers to look for a “real” object/place that exists or has existed when confronted with an amorphous shape in nature, like a cloud or unidentifiable landmass. […]