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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Guyton/Walker
Sunday, 29 December 2013
Guyton/Walker Work from their oeuvre. “According to Guyton and Walker, the show is a continuation of their artistic processes, both in seclusion and together. Rumination and even moments of stagnation are all part of the effort. “Sometimes you have ideas that don’t make any sense to execute on your own, or you don’t feel like […]
Conall McAteer
Saturday, 13 July 2013
Conall McAteer Work from Holier Than Thou “Holier Than Thou is a series composed of edited and overlapped candid images of religious iconography taken in the context where photography is restricted or forbidden. Describable as an act to control their reproduction and veneration as the church had previously held jurisdiction over the use of the colour blue […]
Steven Husby
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Steven Husby Work from his oeuvre. “If this were a blog, it would begin, like ‘classical painting’, as Foucault would have it, with an assumption of a separation between its form and its content. One takes up the blog as a medium as a painter takes up the medium of painting, accepting certain limits as […]
Erin Shirreff
Friday, 28 September 2012
Erin Shirreff Work from her oeuvre. “…Erin Shirreff … among them—are addressing (or redressing) the issues attendant on becoming familiar with an artwork through its photo- graphic reproduction.6 Most of them have a studio-based practice that involves more than one medium—some are not even primarily photographers—but thinking about photography is central to what they do. […]
Sebastian Schmieg and Silvio Lorusso
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Sebastian Schmieg and Silvio Lorusso Work from Broken Screens. “56 Broken Kindle Screens is a print on demand paperback that consists of found photos depicting broken Kindle screens. The Kindle is Amazon’s e-reading device which is by default connected to the company’s book store. The book takes as its starting point the peculiar aesthetic of […]
Niklaus Rüegg
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Niklaus Rüegg Work from his oeuvre. “…Niklaus Rüegg has embarked on this challenge. Result of his work two papers, elephant make-up ‘and’ Hamlet are `24 HOURS. Both works can be divided into the themes of the concept, embedding gray circus’. , Circuses gray ‘plays with the absurdity of the combination of words, circus associated joy, […]
Akihiko Miyoshi
Monday, 9 April 2012
Akihiko Miyoshi Work from his oeuvre. “Throughout my career I have been exploring the intersection between art and technology most frequently dealing with issues surrounding photographic representation. My works often reveal the conventions of perception and representation through tensions created by the use of computers and traditional photographic techniques. The photographs included here are of […]
Nicholas Gottlund
Monday, 19 March 2012
Nicholas Gottlund Work from Baker’s Dozen @ Open Space Baltimore. “Comprised of thirteen aluminum plates traditionally used in offset lithograhy, Baker’s Dozen reflects on the materials and processes of commercial printing. The plates which are typically used to print from, in this case, are the work themselves. Objects such as paper, press sheets, film and cardboard are placed on […]