December 2011
13 posts
Lisa Smith
In “Residue,” the physical space of my home is transformed into a psychological terrain that explores the dual states of pleasure and terror in response to the “domestic.” The abstracted images of marks and residue created as a by‐product of daily life are simultaneously real and abstract, seductive and repulsive. The images invite contemplation and negotiation the space where...
Goseong Choi
“Umma” Korean for “Mom” is a recent series of photographs witnessing a dramatic family event, my grandmother’s passing. When I was in Korea photographing in January, I was taking intimate domestic pictures of my family in their daily lives. Then I went to a small village where my father was from and was photographing the rural life there when i got word that my...
Nicole Sloan
Nicole Sloan is a Southern California based artist, who works in both photography and video. Through these mediums, she explores identity in relation to the power play of the parent-child dynamic. Her work also deals with the breakdown of the nuclear family, parental drug abuse, childhood trauma and the awkwardness of adolescences.
Work by Nicole Sloan. See more here.
Lindsey Schulz
A process that severs a connection to a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity.
A particular interest in psychological fragility and behavior, along with the compulsion to expose vulnerability.
An emphasis on emotional entanglement.
An exploration of the phenomenon of memory, imagination and time, and the imprint they have on materials.
Preoccupation with...
Catarina Gates
We are constantly over-saturated with imagery. It has become easy to feel dismissive towards the photograph. The singularity of the image seems to be slowly fading.
In my practice, I create image objects that use tactics and tactility in an attempt to breathe new vitality into the life of the photograph and settle my personal frustrations with the medium’s flatness. I do this through...
Elisa Schwalm
“Life/Death” examines the relationship of the notion of death in photography to the notion of death in the museum habitat diorama. Through the act of photographing, this space of immortal life is resurrected, flattening the divide between life and death. I am a person in awe of nature. Dioramas, an early tool of representation and education, were a way to see and understand nature, near and...
Magali Duzant
The photographic series Ardara and On feeds into an American stereotype; the West as a place of possibility and new beginning coupled with a feeling of disillusionment in that idea; a feeling of loss, all placed within a storied and cinematic setting.
These images illustrate the ways in which a new place is seen and felt on ones’ own - viewed through the prism of combined personal...
Franck Lesbros
I try to give to my visual research the capacity to rebound, to ensure that the picture has generated not one, but several degrees of reading. I wish to extend the time for contemplation by the questioning. The distance between the subject, and how to treat it, adds to this desire for a vibration between what we see, what we accept and what remains. The photo can be a means of translation, but...
Collin Avery
My photographs are about a particular process of observation which I acquired during adolescence. As a child I was afraid of confrontation, so as a way to escape difficult mental and physical situations I had designated hiding zones located throughout the house and yard where I could disappear to. During these times of self introspection, I became fixated on certain physical details of the...
Francis Holstrom
Reflection and distortion are embraced in the work to draw attention to our distance from the events depicted, our distance from nature, our distance from the ‘real’. Since much of our lives are lived online, I have begun to look for subject matter here, and rely on the poignancy of the floating subject / adultered image to create a new story. Fascinated by natural disasters and...
Aubrey Hays
Between Dog and Wolf
In negotiating my own surroundings, a process—or performance—of endurance is defined. Short-lived acts toward or within the landscape are my fight and my surrender to the untamed environment. By grappling with the uncomfortable, the disquiet, the unknown, I lay gesture to an overwhelming need to challenge isolation within these spaces, to dominate it, but also subsume...
Giacomo Fortunato
Turning twenty-one years old is a milestone in American culture. At this age one is labeled as a responsible, mature and independent member of society.
Twenty-one did not bring anything new to me… I had been drinking for years, I had been living in the same city almost my entire life, and I was still hanging out with the same group of childhood friends. I realized that instead of...
Bobby Davidson
Title: “US Letter”
Year: 2011
“…papers massed in the air, contracts, resumes blowing by, intact snatches of business.”
In Don DeLillo’s “Falling Man” he describes a scene of both disarray and chaos at ground zero on the day the towers disappeared from the New York skyline. Is it possible that something as simple as an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper falling from a sky of ash have...