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Chicago artist Jeanne Dunning investigates the human body to create color photographs that question issues of identity, sexuality, and the interior and exterior self. Drawing from a variety of sources, Dunning’s images appear to be other than what they are: a piece of fruit resembles a human orifice; a woman’s head appears to be shaped [...]
Alison Jackson toys with celebrity worship and our collective desire to embroider the facts. Jackson’s new book, “Alison Jackson: Confidential,” published this month by Taschen, is a parade of provocative images conjuring the A-list actors, musicians, politicians and 15-minutes-of-fame celebutantes who seem, whether we like it or not, to knock around in our consciousness. The [...]
Twilight series. Begun in 1998 and completed in 2002, Twilight consists of forty photographs created as elaborately staged, large-scale tableaux that explore the relationship between the domestic and the fantastical, between the North American landscape and the topology of the imagination. Although Crewdson has described himself as an ‘an American realist landscape photographer’, he makes [...]
American artist Anna Gaskell began photographing girls as they collectively acted out stories, often embodying characters reminiscent of Alice from Alice in Wonderland. In her wonder (1996–97) and override (1997) series, groups of girls dressed in matching uniforms are shown in ambiguous and ominous situations. Anna Gaskell crafts foreboding photographic tableaux of preadolescent girls that [...]
Scopophilia Louvre Museum 11.04.2010 to 01.31.2011 NAN GOLDIN is a photographer whose work is a record of her life. In exhibitions and in books, she has included some self-portraits, a few of which presented devastating views of her own self-destructiveness. But, she suggests, no portrait of her could be complete without the people she loves [...]
New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho September 29, 2010–January 10, 2011 Official Website: www.moma.org New Photography 2010 presents four artists—Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho—whose photographs mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media and cinema. Roe Ethridge: Ethridge takes his pictures in “editorial mode,” [...]
Team Gallery, NY September 9th – October 23rd 2010 Official Website: www.teamgal.com and www.santiago-sierra.com Los Penetrados (The Penetrated) is a 45-minute film in eight acts. The film was originally shot on October 12 2008, Día de la Raza, or the Day of the Race, which is the Spanish holiday commemorating Columbus’ discovery of the Americas. [...]
John Waters is an American filmmaker well known for his provocative movies – among them Pink Flamingos (1972), Hairspray (1988), and, A Dirty Shame (2004). Recently I discovered his contemporary art work and I was fascinated with his sense of humor and clever concepts.
http://deyoung.famsf.org Golden Gate Park | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive • San Francisco, CA May 1, 2010 – October 3, 2010 David Hockney Luncheon at the British Embassy, Tokyo, Feb. 16, 1983 1983. Photocollage. 1996.74.183 Photo/Synthesis highlights the dynamic trend in the field of contemporary photography, collages, assemblages, and other multi-part or composite photo-based projects. [...]
April 22 – May 22, 2010 Jack Shainman Gallery 513 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 Opening reception for the artist, Thursday, April 22, 6 – 8 pm Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Slow Fade to Black, Carrie Mae Weems’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
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