Allora & Calzadilla Work from The Great Silence. I was fortunate enough to see The Great Silence tonight at the Contemporary Art Center as part of a film screening with the Mini Microcinema titled “Artist and Animal Pt. 1” that is running in conjunction with the soon-to-open exhibition Creatures curated by Steven Matijcio. If you […]
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Max Marshall
Friday, 6 January 2012
Max Marshall Work from Fabulous Views. “In the series Fabulous Views, I examine through photography how we define nature, and how that idea of nature coexists with human interaction. Traditional depictions of the wild consist of desolate areas, lush trees, waterfalls without a human presence. However, this notion is not the most pervasive in contemporary […]
Geoffrey Pugen
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Geoffrey Pugen Work from his oeuvre. “In his art, Pugen explores relationships between real and staged performance, the natural and the artificial, and tensions of virtual identity, through altering and manipulating images.Working with video, film, and photography in the digital realm Pugen renders situations that examine the viewer’s perceptions of how history, documentation, and simulation […]
Hannah Whitaker
Monday, 22 March 2010
Hannah Whitaker Work from her oeuvre. “…Combining scientific, mystical, and animal elements, these photographs convey a sense of naïve curiosity and experimentation. The title emphasizes a common thread in many of the pictures–the notion that looking directly at something can be dangerous. So the lightheartedness of certain photographs (X-Ray Specs as fashion accessory or white […]
Robin Schwartz
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Robin Schwartz Work from Amelia’s World. “My photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with my daughter, Amelia. I am driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access […]
Harm van den Dorpel
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Harm van den Dorpel Work from Animals. van den Dorpel is prolific, check out his other series as well. “Harm van den Dorpel is a Dutch artist and web-designer who hacks, constructs, and destroys images. The first works of Van den Dorpel’s that I encountered were his manipulated found animal photos from the series titled […]