Regine Petersen Work from Find a Falling Star. “I use the process of taking photographs as a vehicle for thinking. When I set out to take pictures I usually have no fixed or pre-determined end-point. My method of working gives me the space to be constantly reflective and this in turn permits my work to develop [...]
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Nan GOLDIN "Variety" @ Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève
opening March 29, 2011www.bartschi.chVariety: Photographs by Nan Goldin
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos : J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere’s Moments of Beauty at ARS 11
ARS 11
15 April– 27 November 2011
The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos presents Moments of Beauty, a groundbreaking exhibition of work by the Nigerian artist J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere. Occasionally elegiac, but invariably elegant, the photographs in this exhibition reflect what the artist deems as “moments of beauty,” referring to the ebullience of Nigerian life engendered by independence and decolonisation.
Stefan Panhans
Stefan Panhans Work from Items for Possible Videosets. “Stefan Panhans also concentrates in his works on everyday phenomena, even though, with another emphasize: His videos and photographs analyse the spectacle of increasing commercialisation and staging of urban spaces and reflects on the people’s searching for role models within these situations. In his photographic work, Panhans [...]
New in the Pharmakon Library: Lucas Michael, Bertien van Manen, Angela Watters
for february, pharmakons three….Lucas Michael: Rough Magic: 10 Years in LA (exhibition review, Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles) 2001-11 Bertien van Manen: Tirana: Mother and Bride, from the project Photographs of Photographs in Europe 2007-8Angela Watter…
Michael Sherwin
Michael Sherwin Work from Flux and Form Series “In this series of large format inkjet prints, I set the camera to automatically take pictures each minute as I walk along familiar paths. Then, the collection of photographs is brought into Photoshop, where I create a large canvas and randomly drop each image into the larger [...]
Aaron Gustafson
Aaron Gustafson
Work from Bonus Baby
“I cut out my likeness from each photo as a way of reimagining the moments and to reconcile unremembered or painful past moments with my present self…The photographs are open-ended, ambiguous, an…
Carlee Fernandez
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 [...]
Andrey Bogush
Andrey Bogush Work from the Rainbow Project. “My current interests in photography are linked with perception of objects and Gestalt theory. These are very formalistic studies of still life and pseudo still life through the medium of photography with moments of interference from editing software. In the Rainbow project, I digitally overlaid standard rainbow gradients [...]
Iman Issa
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. [...]
Chris Engman
Chris Engman Work from his oeuvre. “We often say, photographs “capture” time. But to capture something is not to understand it, because in the act of capture the thing is changed. Family albums, travel photographs- what they do with time is give it boundaries. They make memory possible by giving it shape. They describe an [...]
Romka 5
36 artists from 19 countries share their personal favorite photographs 100 pages at 14x21cm offset print on recycling paper edition of 1.000
Carson Fisk-Vittori
Carson Fisk-Vittori Work from her oeuvre. “Fisk-Vittori creates work about everyday objects and environments. Arrangements of objects are presented as photographs and installations that question the function, meaning, and history surrounding that object and display. The arrangements feature both deliberate and casual formation that satirize advertisements and lifestyle magazines. Her interest lies in the relationship [...]
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art: Liu Xiaodong’s Hometown Boy
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
17 November 2010 – 20 February 2011
For this solo show, created specifically for UCCA, Liu Xiaodong returned to his hometown of Jincheng in Liaoning Province to spend three months painting his family and childhood friends while documenting the experience through diary entries, sketches and photographs.
LACMA: William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
LACMA
Until January 16, 2011
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents William Eggleston: Democratic Camera—Photographs and Video, 1961–2008, the most comprehensive U.S. retrospective of the Memphis-based contemporary photographer.
MAK Gallery: David Zink Yi
MAK Gallery
Until 6 March 2011
In the center of the upcoming exhibition “Manganese Make my Colors Blue”, opening 5 October 2010, at the MAK Gallery, is a room-filling six-meter ceramic sculpture, produced in a labor-intensive process especially for the MAK, as well as a selection of recent photographs by Peru-born artist David Zink Yi.
Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Fiona Tan
Sackler Gallery
September 25 – January 16, 2011
By integrating archival film footage and photographs, original location shooting and the spoken word, her works question the relationship among images, narrative and memory. The works on view invite reflection on the role of the recorded image in the experience of time and the construction of individual identity.
Dan Colen Channels John Cage
Dan Colen clearly doesn’t need any more press than he already received in the New York Times today. However, now that we have all enjoyed photographs of him making a “grass” painting and audio of him discussing his practice, can we pause for one minute and talk about how weird it is that he is [...]
Ed RUSCHA "Apartments, Parking Lots, Palm Trees and Others: Films, Photographs and Drawings from 1961 to 1975" @ Sprüth Magers, Berlin
opening September 2, 2010www.spruethmagers.comPress Release
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San Francisco In Jell-O serie
This project consists of photographs and video, which depict various San Francisco landscapes. I make the landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which I use to make molds. I then cast the…