Archives for posts tagged ‘conceptual’

Joe Hardesty

  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

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 […]

Adam Ekberg

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

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

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 […]

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.