amateur category
Refuge (Homage to Malevich) (Series)
DESCRIPTION
These images of a train station in Japan—one painted in black and white patterns so that the station presents a two dimensional reality—break down, twist, and re-assemble it to the point where, despite retaining all of the station’s elements, it is fractured beyond easy recognition. As such, it determines an antipathy to photography’s standard notions of representation
AUTHOR
In a world where everyone has a phone in their hand, extensively documenting their lives, who, then, is the photographer? How can the notion of the exceptional, singular image, the Ansel Adams, or Cartier-Bresson point of view, be sustained when we are bombarded with a steady stream of imagery each day, from the moment we open our eyes?
As I see it, my role as an artist is to ask questions. To pose questions in my work that engage the viewer, rather than promote an facile representational reality. Historically, photographs are two dimensional embodiments of three dimensional objects in space. My images address the notion of reality and perception: the investigation of what visual anomalies occur when such three dimensional objects are reduced, fractured, twisted, or repeated and then reconstructed in incongruous ways in order to promote an uneasy engagement with those who view them.
My work is strongly influenced by artists such as Dimitri Malevich, Joseph Albers, Agnes Martin, and Chuck Close, to name a few.
In the few months since I have been promoting my work, I have won Gold, Bronze and an honorable mention in the 2016 TIFA competition and accepted as winner in "Boundaries and Balance."
As I see it, my role as an artist is to ask questions. To pose questions in my work that engage the viewer, rather than promote an facile representational reality. Historically, photographs are two dimensional embodiments of three dimensional objects in space. My images address the notion of reality and perception: the investigation of what visual anomalies occur when such three dimensional objects are reduced, fractured, twisted, or repeated and then reconstructed in incongruous ways in order to promote an uneasy engagement with those who view them.
My work is strongly influenced by artists such as Dimitri Malevich, Joseph Albers, Agnes Martin, and Chuck Close, to name a few.
In the few months since I have been promoting my work, I have won Gold, Bronze and an honorable mention in the 2016 TIFA competition and accepted as winner in "Boundaries and Balance."
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