New Photography 2009
September 30, 2009–January 11, 2010
The photos exhibited in this show were of much interest to me, mostly because I take interest in working with composite/manipulated photos such as these. Three artists I found most intriguing were Daniel Gordon, Sterling Ruby, Sara VanDer Beek and their individual chromogenic color print series. The photos by Gordon were by far my favorite and inspired ideas for my own thesis project. His prints looked like the result of a deranged serial killer, bazar yet beautiful with a unique marriage of media such as photo cutouts, crude sculptures and other items arranged together to be flattened and married by the use of photography. The works by the other two artists were very much similar in terms of composite photography but consisted of completely different media and subject matter. Ruby's photos appeared to be very dark graphic design style images. I did not care much for the colorful rainbow-like photos by Walead Beshty or the photo series by Leslie Hewitt.
photos: Daniel Gordon, Sterling Ruby, and Sara VanDer Beek
i need to go see this show too! Did you feel like there was a trend towards abstraction in photography?
ReplyDeleteGood though it could have been more specific and longer. Good that you brought your own interests into the discussion.
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