Archives for posts tagged ‘conceptual’

Dora García

Dora García poses some interesting questions in her piece, “The Sphinx“. How will you answer? Related posts: Georg Parthen Uta Barth Robert Wodzinski Arthur Ou

Causality Labs

Causality Labs  Work from the pieces (top to bottom) Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Clock, The Now, no…now, no…now, no…wait, So Far I do not Know, and Shortlived Moments Causality Labs is a collaboration between Galo Moncayo and Andy Holtin whose work is generally interactive/mechanized sculpture that functions based on (intentional or not) audience participation. Awesome […]

Marisa Olson

Marisa Olson trains to be on American Idol in 2005. Check out her audition tape and training blog Related posts: Guy Ben-Ner Jill Magid Steve Lambert Packard Jennings

Guy Ben-Ner

Guy Ben-Ner, Stealing Beauty, 2007 From UBU Web A boy comes home from school with a note indicating he was caught stealing money from his peer at school. His family is put to the challenge to educate him about the meaning and border lines separating private property from its “other”. The movie starts as a TV […]

Jill Magid

In Jill Magid’s “One Cycle of Memory in the City of L“, the artist contacts and becomes friends with the public surveillance camera (CCTV) operators for the city of Liverpool. They guide her over cell phone as she moves through the city, readily visible by the distinctive red trench coat that she wears. At one […]

Nora Herting

Nora Herting Work from Free Sitting and new work from Portraits. Herting makes work in which “the currency of the studio portrait is examined.” They are a conceptual departure and a critical examination of the studio portrait. “My photographs maybe characterized as portraits, although I am not interested in capturing the uniqueness of an individual. […]

Mohammadreza Mirzaei

Mohammadreza Mirzaei Iranian photographer whose work is photographically self-referential, really solid stuff. Work from The Encounters and Humans. Related posts: Marc Volk Nikki S. Lee Semâ Bekirovic Barbara Probst

Christine Shank

Christine Shank Images from Interiors. Statement below. “I love stories – from others, from fiction, from the news, from poetry, from memories – I imagine the desperate situations of personal relationship as scenes of tragic disasters. I enjoy the way in which words placed next to one another elicit an image. The way an image […]

Ryan Mandell

Ryan Mandell Works from recent work and Dreamhome. ” The psychological state of a society, its tendencies, hopes, and fears, are illuminated by the structures it chooses to create, and the ways in which those structures are used. Architecture is initially born from, and dictated by human need and desire. However, once a structure is […]

Millee Tibbs

Millee Tibbs Work from Self Portraits, and This is a Picture of Me. More work here as well. Related posts: Nora Herting Miles Collyer William Lamson Jane Tam