Stephanie Syjuco Work from Dodge and Burn (Visible Storage) at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. “Stephanie Syjuco explores the complicated ways in which we understand such politically charged concepts as citizen, immigrant, nationhood, and identity. The title installation, Rogue States, is made up of twenty-two reproduced flags originally used in Hollywood films (Die Hard 2, Ace Ventura, and Coming […]
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Karina Skvirsky Aguilera
Sunday, 10 March 2019
Karina Skvirsky Aguilera Work from Folds in the Photograph at DPM Gallery. “We can understand the work of Karina Skvirsky Aguilera as the mechanism through which she seeks to continuously discover the profiles of her own identity, within the complex plot of ethnicity, gender, customs and family mythology woven around her experiences within the dissimilar […]
Laurie Kang
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Laurie Kang Work from Kang‘s exhibition at Erin Stump Projects. “In 1966 the American literary journal Yale French Studies dedicated an issue to Structuralism, a fashionable theory pursued by European literary critics. The theory held that a close reading of any text should be considered with a greater awareness of its historical context; that every […]
Joe Clark
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Joe Clark Work from Shimmer at XPO Gallery. “My work orbits the photographic image; testing my relationship to it by approaching it’s making and display from various formal and technical perspectives. Working across photographic genres, such as landscape and studio photography and making use of installational approaches and interactivity I unpick how images are made […]
Bea Fremderman
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Bea Fremderman Work from her oeuvre. “The suburban nightmare pertains to placelessness. It is within subdivisions where individuality, desire and freedom homogenize to form a synthetic reality. As one dwells in this maze, a false sense of freedom delineates all that is true. From the confines of the office cubicle to the sovereignty of the […]
Jojo Luzhou Li
Monday, 6 June 2011
Jojo Luzhou Li Work from her oeuvre. “My sculpture is sometimes really a photo and my photo is actually a painting. By this I mean that my work investigates the realm between image and object, confusing and hopefully destabilizing the lines between photographic image, painterly gesture, and three-dimensional space and the various kinds of information […]