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Artist Feature
Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.
Patricia Voulgaris - Hidden in Plain
Dec 09, 2015
My work primarily focuses on combining photography and sculpture using the human form as a platform objectively through juxtaposition, layering and context, I am interested in the deconstruction and recontextualization of an image and the result: a manipulated hybrid. A hybrid that stresses on the importance of process that focuses on the tension between layer and surface, technology and vision. Perspectives become distorted, shapes and fragments of the human body are integrated into complicated compositions that blur the line between space, object and material. The viewer’s perception is constantly challenged in distinguishing the degrees of fabrication and authenticity of the image.
Artist Blog
The blog of Der Greif is written entirely by the artists who have been invited to doing an Artist-Feature. Every week, we have a different author.
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Goodbye!
Dec 15, 2015 - Patricia Voulgaris
Photography is Magic by Charlotte Cotton
- Patricia Voulgaris
Check out Photography is Magic, published by Aperture. I absolutely love this book! »By considering contemporary photographic practices through the lens of magic, this book has a particular take on the current state of photography’s material presence — its status as a cultural material — within art.« –Charlotte Cotton Photography Is Magic is a critical publication that surveys the practices of over eighty artists, all of whom are engaged with experimental approaches to photographic ideas, set within the contemporary image environment, framed by Web 2.0. The book contains a substantial essay by Charlotte Cotton and statements from all the contributing artists. The over three hundred image sequence represents the scope of photographic possibilities at play within contemporary creative practices. From Michele Abeles and Walead Beshty to Daniel Gordon and Matt Lipps, Cotton has selected artists who are consciously reframing photographic practices in the post-Internet age. Photography Is Magic provides an engaging physical experience - designed by Harsh Patel - for younger photo aficionados, students, and anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of contemporary photography. With images and texts by Michele Abeles, Takaaki Akaishi, Lotta Antonsson, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock,Andrey Bogush, Brian Bress, Bianca Brunner, Stefan Burger, Antoine Catala, Phil Chang, Talia Chetrit, Joshua Citarella, Sara Cwynar, Bryan Dooley, Jessica Eaton, Shannon Ebner, Marten Elder, Jason Evans,Sam Falls, Brendan Fowler, Victoria Fu,Daniel Gordon, Darren Harvey-Regan, Leslie Hewitt, Nancy de Holl, John Houck, Go Itami, Rachel de Joode, Farrah Karapetian, Matt Keegan, Annette Kelm, Soo Kim, Yuki Kimura, Josh Kline, Lucas Knipscher,Owen Kydd, Josh Kolbo, Taisuke Koyama,Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato, EladLassry, Brandon Lattu, John Lehr, Anthony Lepore, Alexandra Leykauf, Matt Lipps, Florian Maier-Aichen, Phillip Maisel, Annie MacDonell, Emmeline de Mooij, Carter Mull, Nerhol - (Ryuta Iida and YoshihisaTanaka), Katja Novitskova, Arthur Ou, Matthew Porter, Timur Si-Qin, Eileen Quinlan, Jon Rafman, Sean Raspet, Clunie Reid, Abigail Reynolds, Will Rogan, Asha Schechter, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Shirana Shahbazi, Daniel Shea, Erin Shirreff, Elisa Sighicelli, Brea Souders, Kate Steciw, BatiaSuter, Yosuke Takeda, Miguel Ángel Tornero,Sara VanDerBeek, Artie Vierkant, Anne deVries, Hannah Whitaker, Charlie White, Lindsey White, Chris Wiley, Letha Wilson, and Amir Zaki. Charlotte Cotton is an author and curator. She has been at the forefront of the appraisal of contemporary art photography for over twenty years. She has held curatorial positions at institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Photographers’ Gallery in London and the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has been a visiting scholar and critic at institutions including The New School for Design, NYU and SVA New York; CCA, San Francisco; and Otis College, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art and founder of Words Without Pictures. *Info courtesy of Aperture Available for purchase here
“Queen”
Dec 13, 2015 - Patricia Voulgaris
Dashwood Books recently published "Queen" which features some of my favorite female photographers including Molly Matalon, Kat Shannon, Hannah Whitaker, Sarah Palmer, Grace Ann Leadbeater, Nikki Kreciki, Amina Cain and yours truly. Pick it up! Find out more here!
Alexandra Galiardo
Dec 12, 2015 - Patricia Voulgaris
lies below the obvious surface and what we accept as real. Find more of her work here
Allen Frame
Dec 11, 2015 - Patricia Voulgaris
1/8 Braid, 2014 (from the series Fragments)
2/8 Self Portrait, 2014 (from the series Fragments)
3/8 Self Portrait, 2014 (from the series Fragments)
4/8 Space, 2014 (from the series Fragments)
5/8 Untitled, 2015 (from the series Fragments)
6/8 Self Portrait, 2014 (from the series Fragments)
7/8 Ear 2014, (from the series Fragments)
8/8 Masked, 2015 (from the series Fragments)
Fragments
Dec 10, 2015 - Patricia Voulgaris
Hello Everyone! I will be guest blogging until the 16th, I hope you enjoy my posts. Bellow, are a few images from my project titled "Fragments".........Enjoy! Throughout Fragments, I focus on how memories become abstracted and distorted over time. When one considers the past, their memory of a certain person or place is often fragmental. However, people can remember certain distinct qualities about an individual or a particular place. Time passes, recollections fade and become broken down into simple forms, shapes, and patterns. These forms are what hold memories together. Photographʼs provide people with the ability to recall a particular moment in time. But are memories stronger than photographʼs? Through this continual process, I first re-construct and then deconstruct personal memories. Negative space distorts the original image, creating an ambiguous graphic form. Each image becomes fragmented, similar to the nature of old memories. To see more images from fragments click here