Anna Carey:
Anna Carey is an Australian artist whose work overlaps photography, model-making, film and drawing. Through memory and imagination, she creates fictive architectural spaces based on familiar iconic architecture. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Media with Honours (first class) at Queensland College of Art and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies with QCA. She has exhibited at Photo la, Los Angeles; Artereal Gallery, Sydney; Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane; Dlux Media Arts, Federation Square Melbourne and the Museum of Brisbane. She has been shortlisted in numerous prizes including The Churchie National Emerging Art Award, the Queensland Regional Art Awards and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award which she received the acquisition award. Her work has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, University of Queensland, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery and numerous private collections.
Artists Work Explanation for Silo Park Exhibition:
Anna Carey is an Australian artist currently living and working in Los Angeles. Interested in the recuperation of memory while experiencing transient vernacular iconic architecture so suited to the mediums of photography and model making.
By conflating the real with memory and imagination she constructs miniature models of vernacular architecture, documenting these models with the camera and then displaying the resulting photographs. The camera lens magnifies the model with all its imperfections and reminds the viewer that the photograph has been constructed with a miniature materialized object.
In turn this creates a disorientating experience for the viewers and opens up a space for one to pause and reflect on their own experiences embedded within the familiar spaces.
Anna graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Media majoring in Fine Art with Honours (first class) from Queensland College of Art and is currently undertaking her Doctorate with QCA.
My Opinion:
I loved seeing these works as the first thing in the gallery that I played my eyes on. I instantly recognised the houses and bright blue skies from my research on Anna Carey. I think the work is a little strange but very interesting to ponder over the meaning of the context of the images and realising that these are reconstructed memories of hers, I instantly felt more comfortable knowing that these were created from memory rather than just thought of out of thin air.
Arthur Ou:
Arthur Ou works in photography, painting, sculpture, and installation. He deploys photography within the contexts of these differing elements to elicit questions concerning photographic ontology, perception, and materiality. His work has been featured in group exhibitions held in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London, Vancouver, Paris, Berlin, and Beijing; and in publications including The New York Times, Aperture, Blind Spot, Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Camera Austria, and The Photograph As Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson). He has published critical texts in Aperture, Afterall.org, Artforum.com, Bidoun, Foam, Fantom, Words Without Pictures, and X-Tra. Ou initiated the biennial New School conference, The Photographic Universe, and is the creative director of the film series The Invisible Photograph.
He has exhibited internationally, most recently in “One Torino” curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari in Turin, Italy, "Pictures that Speak," at the Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, and the 2012 Daegu Photo Biennale, in Daegu, Korea. He was also included in the 2006 Taipei Biennial, "Dirty Yoga," curated by Dan Cameron.
Artists Work Explanation for Silo Park Exhibition:
Artist's statement - "Through photography, one of the recent concerns in my practice deals with notions of the landscape as an artificial phenomenon. The urge to photograph the sea grew stronger after I relocated to NY from California some time ago, which also arise from the desire to picture an entity that I consider a connecting force between the two places — California and Taiwan — that I consider my "homelands." These photographs also extend to the interest in some of the specific sites where key modernist photographic works were made, though at the same time wanting to disrupt the clichéd beauty that comes from representing the sea. The black calligraphic areas in these seascapes are deliberate disruptions become decorative elements that directly obstruct an illusionistic view of the photographed scenes."
My Opinion:
I like the overlay of pattern on the images as I feel it brings the images together and gives them (especially the striped photographs). I also like the black and white of the images and how that aspect of editing pulls the images together too. Overall I really like how Ou bought the pieces together through the editing techniques and not necessarily the subjects of the images being all identical.
Ian Strange:
Suburban is a multifaceted photography, film, installation exhibition by artist Ian Strange. Between 2011 and 2013 Strange worked with a film crew and volunteers in Ohio, Detroit, Alabama, New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire to create, photograph and film seven site specific interventions incorporating suburban homes. The recording of these interventions through film and photographic documentation forms the basis of this new body of work.
Artists Work Explanation for Silo Park Exhibition:
Burn series is a part of a larger body of work entitled SUBURBAN. Over two years Strange worked with a film crew and volunteers in Ohio, Detroit, Alabama, New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire to create, photograph and film site specific interventions incorporating suburban homes. The recording of these interventions through photographic documentation forms the basis of this work.
The most dramatic of all his approaches, however, is the Burn Series in which, with the involvement of the fire department in Ohio, houses were set alight and burned to the ground in an act of symbolic requital; the surviving record of their existence being Strange’s art-directed photographic documentation.
Strange’s photographs and videos challenge the idea of the family home as a place of warmth and safety by simultaneously elevating and destroying it, both literally and figuratively. In doing so, Strange reveals his own antithetical relationship with the suburbs and invites us to explore our own response to them.
Burn series is a part of a larger body of work entitled SUBURBAN. Over two years Strange worked with a film crew and volunteers in Ohio, Detroit, Alabama, New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire to create, photograph and film site specific interventions incorporating suburban homes. The recording of these interventions through photographic documentation forms the basis of this work.
The most dramatic of all his approaches, however, is the Burn Series in which, with the involvement of the fire department in Ohio, houses were set alight and burned to the ground in an act of symbolic requital; the surviving record of their existence being Strange’s art-directed photographic documentation.
Strange’s photographs and videos challenge the idea of the family home as a place of warmth and safety by simultaneously elevating and destroying it, both literally and figuratively. In doing so, Strange reveals his own antithetical relationship with the suburbs and invites us to explore our own response to them.
My Opinion:
This is my favourite works out of the whole exhibition. I particularly like the contrast between the oranges and yellow complexion of the fire and the faded colours of the house. I also love how the fire is the main element in this photograph and the fear and brightness of the burning house really drew me to the work to begin with.
Russ Flatt:
Russ Flatt is a New Zealand Artist and Photographer born in Changi, Singapore 1971. He has had multiple solo and group shows presented throughout Auckland and also a multitude of Collections that reside throughout Auckland. Flat has also won many awards including Auckland Festival of Photography Annual Commission in 2016, Wallace Arts Trust Vermont Residency in 2015 and Elam School of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Photography Prize in 2013.
Artists Work Explanation for Silo Park Exhibition:
The Auckland Festival of Photography 2016 features the 6th Annual Commission, this year presented by Sacred Hill. Each year, an Auckland-based photographer is commissioned to create a new body of work for exhibition during the Festival. The commission provides an opportunity to support and promote an Auckland photographer as well as create a cultural and artistic asset for present and future Auckland audiences to enjoy. This year’s commissioned artist is Russ Flatt.
Kia whakatomuri te haere whakamua.
I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past.
Russ Flatt’s carefully staged photographs utilise different genres, modes and points of view in order to recover and reconstruct memories and past events.
His work addresses notions of identity by looking towards a re-imagined past in order to recognise the present.
Russ Flatt graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in 2013 from Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts. His work is held in collections including Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, the James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland Council and the University of Auckland.
I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past.
Russ Flatt’s carefully staged photographs utilise different genres, modes and points of view in order to recover and reconstruct memories and past events.
His work addresses notions of identity by looking towards a re-imagined past in order to recognise the present.
Russ Flatt graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in 2013 from Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts. His work is held in collections including Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, the James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland Council and the University of Auckland.
My Opinion: It was interesting seeing this type of auto biographical photography on such a personal scale. I liked the warmth of the photographs but that's really all I liked about these images. I'm not quite as comfortable with being so personal in my photographs about MYSELF so that's the only level of dissatisfaction that I had for these images; how personal they were to the artist. I do on the other hand also like the composition of the images and how they are balanced so nicely.
Photographic Response:
I am responding to Ian Strange by recreating images with a pop of bright colour and all other aspects of the image are faded colours. Throughout the images I have taken and edited in Camera Raw below, I feel I have emulated Strange's work appropriately by recreating the colour techniques. In order to do this I reduced the saturation panel and then used the brush tool to remove any of the lowered saturation from the area I wanted the pop of colour in.
Because I prepared this shoot and planned it carefully, including the camera settings and time of day, these photographs were successful on the first try and I did not need to take more than one of each shot thanks to the use of the light meter on my camera screen.
My favourite image of mine is the globe image because the change in the saturation surrounding the globe is very subtle but it really drains the surroundings effectively and I also like how the background is plain black, white and grey. I think there is a level of minimalism to this image also as its simplicity gives it a lot of room to add character in the image.
Photographic Genre:
I think the photographic genre for my photographic response lies in the editorial genre due to its non-fictional aesthetic. These photos definitely come under documentary and nature sub genres because of the fact, these were the things that I have literally documented and are my surroundings. Plus the nature aspect of some of the photographs adds the genre of the images.
Photographic Response:
I am responding to Ian Strange by recreating images with a pop of bright colour and all other aspects of the image are faded colours. Throughout the images I have taken and edited in Camera Raw below, I feel I have emulated Strange's work appropriately by recreating the colour techniques. In order to do this I reduced the saturation panel and then used the brush tool to remove any of the lowered saturation from the area I wanted the pop of colour in.
Because I prepared this shoot and planned it carefully, including the camera settings and time of day, these photographs were successful on the first try and I did not need to take more than one of each shot thanks to the use of the light meter on my camera screen.
My favourite image of mine is the globe image because the change in the saturation surrounding the globe is very subtle but it really drains the surroundings effectively and I also like how the background is plain black, white and grey. I think there is a level of minimalism to this image also as its simplicity gives it a lot of room to add character in the image.
Photographic Genre:
I think the photographic genre for my photographic response lies in the editorial genre due to its non-fictional aesthetic. These photos definitely come under documentary and nature sub genres because of the fact, these were the things that I have literally documented and are my surroundings. Plus the nature aspect of some of the photographs adds the genre of the images.
Hi Natalie
ReplyDeleteCould you add some more images to this post? Perhaps 3 more?
do you mean as part of my photographic response?
DeleteYes. More of your own images. It would be beneficial for your final mark to show some more photographic experimentation :)
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