Carlee Fernandez Work from Man. “…In her newest work entitled “Man,” Fernandez probes the power, aggressiveness, and macho beauty of the men who have been influential in her life and her art-making through contemporary self-portraiture. By juxtaposing her body next to or entwined with images of masculinity through photographs, video, and sculpture, the work is […]
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Steven Brahms
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Steven Brahms Work from The Survival Project. “Over the past year and a half I have been engaged in an investigation of contemporary man’s relationship with nature and himself, and how acts of imagination are tools for remembering our forgotten knowledge.” – Steven Brahms “Each image is a demonstration, an investigation, an experiment of skills and […]
Caroline Heider
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Caroline Heider Work from her oeuvre. Caroline Heider bases her work on existing pictures, on a public world of images which is conveyed in magazines, for example. Media-related images are a reality of their own and have their reflexive effect on the world. The artist’s interests focus on this process and the social and cultural […]
Iman Issa
Saturday, 25 December 2010
Iman Issa Work from Triptychs (and others). “Issa’s Triptych series (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6) from 2009, is a group of six beautiful wall installations comprised of photography, video objects and texts. They are images of places she collected in New York and restaged; settings that occurred through a personal psychological process in order to reveal personal associations. […]
Erik Dalzen
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Erik Dalzen Work from Some Things. Dalzen has work from Some Things in a show at Guild Gallery II in NYC opening Thursday (6:00 – 7:30 @ 119 9th Avenue / NYC). “Photography often features the usage of an illusionary background creating a setting devoid of planar divisions manifest by a seamless background or skype. Comparable […]
Nobuhiro Nakanishi
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Nobuhiro Nakanishi Work from Layer Drawings. “The theme of my work is “the physical that permeates into the art piece.” In a foggy landscape, we no longer see what we are usually able to see – the distance to the traffic light, the silhouette of the trees, the slope of the ground. Silhouettes, distance and […]
Cyprien Gaillard
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Cyprien Gaillard Work from Cairns, Dunepark, The New Picturesque, and one rad sphinx image. “‘Cairns’ is a series of photographs that depict the aftermath of the demolition of high rise social housing in Glasgow and the Parisian suburbs, shot and printed after Düsseldorf school of photograph’s codes and photographers such as Andreas GURSKY and Thomas STRUTH, while […]
Zach Nader
Friday, 3 December 2010
Zach Nader Work from Investigation in Microscopic Views. “…In reexamining everyday objects and technologies, I make images to explore the uses of and potential histories that exist within the millions of personal and media images created daily. Evaluating the ways in which my experience is constructed, I investigate everyday uses and underlying structures of photographic images, […]
Scott Jarrett
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Scott Jarrett Work from his oeuvre. “The instability of vanity is perhaps one of visual art’s greatest selling point. And, in an understated way, when derelict man-made objects and places are pushed to the boundaries of their own self contained and easily understood offensiveness, they often transform into something beautiful. Scott Jarrett’s recent work aggregates the […]
Heidi Specker
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Heidi Specker Work from D’Elsi (and an install shot from Im Garten). “The 19th-century German landscape gardener Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau introduced the concept of the English park to Germany. His gardens didn’t attempt to imitate or harness the wilderness; rather, they were deliberately cultivated and arranged, intermittently bringing nature into view against buildings […]