Judging from his resume, multi-media artist Euan Macdonald has never created anything quite like the 20 x 50 foot mountain that all-but-overflows the main exhibition space at Western Bridge, his biggest and most ambitious installation to date. Commissioned by patrons Bill and Ruth True, the ...
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With the advent of the digital age, deception in photography has never been easier, and Amir Zaki makes the best possible case for its artistic benefits. His brilliant and compelling portraits of retro-chic lifeguard towers in Southern California are the product of nearly as much i...
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Back before the age of industrialization and career specialization, artists offered their services to whoever needed visual smarts and problem-solving skills. Artists of Renaissance Florence, for example, were almost as likely to be spending their time doing architecture, furniture de...
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Never mind the fact that we are the helpless playthings of an indifferent universe – we can always build models. Models indulge our fantasies of control and desire, promising the potential of power over real-world counterparts; Voodoo dolls come to mind. ...
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Wake up, people! The task that Chris Jordan has set himself with Running the Numbers, his call-to-arms series of photographs dramatizing key environmental and political statistics, is daunting, if not impossible. Yes, we are enraged and disgusted by our neighbor’s dog...
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