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Nick Herman

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nick Herman is an artist, writer, and publisher. 

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Takeshi Murata

Takeshi Murata makes really amazing video work, but in his most recent exhibition, the work is comprimised of 3D renderings of real world objects, materialized as prints. 
The piece's call to mind Claes Oldenberg's sewn sculptures of instruments, René Magritte's grappling with mediated reality, and kitschy horror films all illuminated with, and might I add appropriately so, early-90s style product photography lighting.

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Taisuke Koyama

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Taisuke Koyama lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

Andrea Longacre-White

 

 

 

 

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Work by Andrea Longacre-White from the series Blackouts. Andrea lives and works in NYC.

(In)Visible Dialogues

 

Mariah Robertson

 

Stephanie Davidson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Stephanie Davidson lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Pekka Niittyvirta

Mosquito Bites
2005

 

Paris Hilton
(Dog Chromosome X, Poodle)
2010

 

Water
2010

 

Broken Idyl (Dish)
2008

 

Broken Idyl (Bridge)
2008

 

From the Series:
Greetings From Helsinki
2006

 

Iraq War Diary Redacted
2010

 

Title: Beach (Chromosome X)
2008

 

From the Series:
Greetings From Helsinki
2006

 

 

Jarna
2005

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Pekka Niittyvirta lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

Andrew O'Brien

 

 

 

 

 

 

Threshold Installation View from Andrew O'Brien

 

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Andrew O'Brien

Sebastian Wickeroth

untitled
Akademieausstellung
Kunstforum Oberkassel 2006

drawing
markerpen on paper
29,7cm / 21cm
2009

„love hate love“
MMOGG Düsseldorf 2007
(collaboration with Erika Hock)

untitled
form fucks function
Konsortium
Düsseldorf 2007

untitled
Rundgang Kunstakademie
Düsseldorf 2007

„was soll ich tun?“
große Kunstaustellung
Haus der Kunst
Munich 2007

„Grau ist die metaphysische Farbe“
Das letzte Wort der Kunst
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 2006

drawings
markerpen on paper
29,7cm / 21cm
2008

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Sebastian Wickeroth lives and works in Düsseldorf.

 

Josh Kolbo

Detail / Untitled / 12 C-prints / Unique / 2010 / 300 x 600 cm / 118 x 236 inches

 

Untitled / 2 C-prints / Unique / 2010 / 384 x 265 cm / 151 x 104 inches

 

Untitled / 4 C-prints / Unique / 2010 / 360 x 265 cm / 141 x 104 inches

 

Untitled / 2 C-prints / Unique / 2010 / 160 x 76 cm / 63 x 30 inches

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Josh Kolbo
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Gallery

Personal site (so rad) 

JH Engstrom

"Although, if you get too serious, you might lose your self-distance, and then you're no longer making good stuff. Cross the line either way and you're lost." (Milene Larsson) 

"The risk is that if you can't handle that balance, you make a fool out of yourself. But that's exactly the risk you have to take. I don't know if I agree with what you said. I guess for some people, being a journalist, for example, you can't allow yourself to hesitate. You have to know exactly what you are doing because you need to tell the truth, so to say. It's different for artists I think, we need to dwell in doubt. For me, it has to do with trying and also failing. Self-doubt is an absolute necessity. It's a constant struggle, daring to expose what lies within, as well as trying to make a living out of photography. It's almost impossible these days." (JH Engstrom)

Excerpt from an interview via Huh. Magazine

Curtis Mann's Attempt to Destroy What's There

untitled
2010
Chemically altered chromogenic development print
24" x 20"

pillar
2010
Synthetic polymer varnish on bleached chromogenic development print
40" x 60"

new hole (sky)
2010
Chemically altered chromogenic development print
26" x 40

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Work by Chicago based artist Curtis Mann.
If you're in Chicago check out his exhibition "everything after" at Kavi Gupta Gallery.
Wish I could see it in person, the installation photo's look amazing, though.