Opening this weekend at Samson Projects in Boston, Massachusetts, is a series titled “Self Portraits” by artist Gabriel Martinez. For this exhibition, the artist’s “self portraits” are not of himself, as the title would suggest, instead he conducted several photo sessions with supposed heterosexual men who he lends his camera equipment to photograph their feet at the point of sexual climax. The artist initially presented[…..]
The Moti Hasson Gallery in New York City is currently presenting “Waking the Dead,” a new body of work by Canadian-born, New York-based artist Jillian McDonald. The exhibition will include a special performance on Halloween night. Within the show, the artist has produced several videos and a series of photographs which feature images that are derivative from a variety of horror films. In the work[…..]
“The Searchers” is a series of photography conducted by the collaborative duo Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher which investigates Western spiritual tourism in India. The project, which is currently on view at the Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007 in The Netherlands, developed from a year-long trip that the artists took throughout ashrams, retreat centers and pilgrimage destinations of India. What was discovered through that religious landscape was[…..]
“the return of the real” is a new exhibition opening this week at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London that will feature the outcome of artist Phil Collins’ Tate Tuner Prize nominated work that features true stories of television betrayal. The artist investigates the post-documentary culture that has become known as reality TV, and the surrounding issues of authenticity and illusion, intimacy and inaccuracy, expectation[…..]
The photographic works of young Korean Artist Myoung Ho Lee have gained international acclaim for their simple concept and potent outcome. The artist has been developing an ongoing series that take trees in their natural environment and isolates them by placing a white ground behind the tree elegantly altering the viewer’s perception. The subject begins to appear in graphic terms much as photograph would on[…..]
The new exhibition and book titled “Hybrids” explores various subcultures through photographs taken by Klaus Thymann from 2003 – 2007, investigating gay rodeos, an underwater striptease, snow polo and religious theme parks among many others. The sociological documentation is the material for a new 144 page book that the artist is debuting at the end of next month. The book is printed in a limited[…..]
Opening just last week at Danziger Projects in New York City is the highly talked about photographic series “Sentry,” by artist Andy Freeberg. The series characterizes the New York Art world through its intentional distance and lack of humility. The artist has stated, “It was an odd moment when I walked into that first gallery in Chelsea and saw a large white desk with a[…..]
