Olaf Breuning

Olaf Breuning is one of contemporary art's most varied and prolific artists. Utilizing a variety of different media, such as photography, installation, drawing, sculpture, film and video, he has constructed an aesthetic vernacular that draws much of its inspiration from mass-produced popular culture. Breuning skillfully recontextualizes everyday objects and infuses them with both irony and absurdism.

Breuning's work revitalizes many of the commentaries put forth by Pop artists of the 1950's and 60's. His work particularly recalls Claes Oldenburg's iconic sculptures. Both artists' work walks the fine line between the playful and grotesque, or, maybe more specifically, between the authentic and hyperbolic.

You can watch a fascinating video in which Breuning discusses his work here.











From Top To Bottom:

Sculpture, Metro Show, 2008

Smoke Bombs, 2008

Coffins, 2004

The Army, 2008

Horsfarm, 2004

All Work © Olaf Breuning

Nicolas Coulomb

Every now and then, I get lost in a vortex of links. I'll travel from one artist's "links" page to the next in search of work that I've never seen before. Frequently, by the time I discover someone's work that intrigues me, I have visited so many websites that I can't even remember where I started.

Anyways, this was how I happened upon the work of Nicolas Coulomb. Take a moment to check out some of the other work on his website.











commission/NewYork/2008

All Images © Nicolas Coulomb

George Awde

Recent Yale graduate George Awde's work lyrically explores issues of family, culture and identity. His statement, albeit brief, communicates some essential ideas about familial life:

"Conceptions of home and family play an important role in my work. The family one is born into – and the family one creates. Notions of home are foundational – but they are also mythic and imaginative."

You can see Awde's thesis show, We Belong Together, Yale MFA Photography 2009, at any of the following locations:

Capricious Space
Up until June 28
103 Broadway (between Berry and Bedford)
Brooklyn, NY

Gallery 339
June 5-August 29
339 South 21st Street Philadelphia, PA
Opening: June 5, 2009, 6-8pm

Eighth Veil
September 1-12
7174 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Reception: September 11, 2009, 7-9pm











All Images © George Awde

Issue 4 of The Exposure Project Book Available in July

Hey Everyone,

Well, it's been quite a while since the last update regarding Issue 4 of The Exposure Project Book. We have spent the last couple of months working on the design of the book, raising funds and finalizing all the specifics of the book editions. We are pleased to announce that Issue 4 will be available for purchase in the middle of July. It will be offered in both regular and special editions. You can find the edition details below:

The Exposure Project Book - Issue 4
July 2009

Includes photographs by Chris Bentley, Rona Chang, Daniel Farnum, Elizabeth Fleming, Lee Gainer, Matthew Genitempo, Inka Lindergård & Niclas Holmström, Natascha Libbert, Bradley Peters, Carlo Van de Roer, Daniel Shea, Manuel Vazquez, Jens Windolf, Susan Worsham and Bahar Yurukoglu

With an essay by Brian Ulrich

Regular Edition
70 pages, Softcover
Edition of 100
8 x 10 in.
$45

Special Edition
70 pages, Hardcover
Edition of 25
8 x 10 in.
$100

The special edition will also include two signed and numbered 8.5 x 11 prints. Customers will be have the choice of the following prints:











Download the Abridged PDF of Issue 4

Download Press Release

From Top To Bottom:

Chris Bentley, Drive-in Screen

Bahar Yurukoglu, Martin Van Buren had red hair

Bradley Peters, Untitled (mother and son with shopping cart)

Daniel Shea, "Untitled," from the series Untitled (Baltimore)

Susan Worsham, The Beekeeper's Other Daughter

All Images © The Artists

G.W.A.G.H.M.A.C.J.E.A.K.F.S.F.I.L.C.J.B.D.Z.

Alana Celii e-mailed me today about an exhibition that she and some other recent Parsons graduates have put together. The show, entitled G.W.A.G.H.M.A.C.J.E.A.K.F.S.F.I. L.C.J.B.D.Z., will be opening at Daniel Cooney Fine Art on June 11th. If you're in the neighborhood, you should swing by and see the exhibition! You can find all the pertinent details below.



G.W.A.G.H.M.A.C.J.E.A.K.F.S.F.I.L.C.J.B.D.Z.

Photographs by: by Grant Willing, Anna Gonzalez-Huix Miro, Alana Celii, Jemma Evans, Alia Kahan, Fiona Struengmann, Fernando Ibarra, Lorena Costa, Jonathan Baskin, and Daniel Zuchnik

June 11–20, 2009
Opening: June 11, 2009 6–9pm
Daniel Cooney Fine Art
511 West 25th Street, Suite 506
New York, NY

Photograph from the series Svart Metall

Image © Grant Willing

John Stezaker

British artist John Stezaker's photographic collages exist in the long, and often socio-political, line of artists whose work defined movements like Surrealism, Constructivism, Conceptualism and Postmodernism. Following this train of thought, Stezaker's work shares many similarities with Joachim Schmid's series Photogenic Drafts (posted on this blog here). As excerpted from the Stills website:



"Breathing new life into photographs salvaged from forgotten film archives and obsolete magazines, John Stezaker intuitively transforms these found portraits into otherworldly, uncanny beings. Playing with our fascination with the face, Stezaker’s subtle yet unsettling interventions toy with the subconscious and the surreal.

Using a manual cut-and paste technique he continues the rich history of collage by dissolving the naturalistic picture plane and constructing a fragmented and dislocated view of contemporary reality. The individual images fuse and separate before our eyes, opening up new characters, relationships and meanings."











All Images © John Stezaker

Boston Photography Focus' Be Exposed

The PRC will be featuring images from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition on their blog, Boston Photography Focus, on Mondays and Thursdays in the next few weeks. Be sure to check in regularly for new updates on EXPOSURE artists.