Amy Stevens Work from Confections. “The Confections series began as a response to turning 30. It was a celebration of birthdays, color, pattern and obsessive absurdity. My original idea was to bake 30 birthday cakes for myself and photograph them. I didn’t quite make it to 30 cakes in time for my thesis show, but I […]
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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 […]
Kelly Wood
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Kelly Wood Work from The Continuous Garbage Project. “From March 1998 to March 2003, Kelly Wood photographed household garbage. From this activity, inscribed within an arbitrary time frame, emerged a large-scale work that presents us with unmistakable evidence of a relentless process and exposes its excesses in documentation extending to 275 pages. The Continuous Garbage […]