Last Postcards

In her recent work, Biernoff is interested in investigating fictions and fantasies embedded in the remnants of consumer culture (for example magazines) or through ephemera such as postcards and old photographs...

Long Long Live (2013) takes the viewer to the setting of the Oasis Villa on Green Island, once a reform and re-education prison to house political prisoners during Taiwan’s martial law period...

Dorsky’s pieces included in the Kadist Collection are small still photographs from twelve of his most important films...

Central Station, Alignment, and Sumo are “situation portraits” that present whimsical characters within distorted and troubling worlds...

John Houck’s brown- , sienna- and golden-toned composition, Untitled #185, 65, 535 combinations of a 2×2 grid, 16 colors , features densely packed lines of color moving diagonally across the creased page...

Re: Looking marks a new phase in Wong’s work which connects his region’s history with other parts of the world...

The 10 $1 bills that make up From a Whisper to a Scream (2012) read like instructions in origami...

In Made In Heaven , we are face to face with a sculptural apparition, a divine visitation in the artist’s studio...

Days of Our Lives: Reading is from a series of work was created for the 10th Biennale de Lyon by the artist...

John Houck’s multi-layered photographic compositions immortalize nostalgic objects from the artist’s childhood, manipulated in the studio and in post-production into unreal still-life arrangements...

Making Chinatown (2012) is a remake of Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic neo-noir film Chinatown ...

Central Station, Alignment, and Argument are “situation portraits” that present whimsical characters within distorted and troubling worlds...

Untitled (Women) (2011) presents a startlingly succinct history of violently romanticized femininity...

Baby Shoes, Never Worn is part of photographer John Houck’s series of restrained still-life photographs capturing objects from his childhood...

Untitled (rolled up) , is an abstract portrait of Owen Monk, the artist’s father and features an aluminum ring of 56.6 cm in diameter measuring 1.77 cm in circumference, the size of his father...

The Breaks reflects Capistran’s interests in sampling and fusing different cultural, social, and historical sources...

In the series Horizons (2010), Lipps uses appropriation to riff on Modernism’s fascination with abstract form...

Conrad Ruiz loves to paint subjects related to the “boy zone”: video games, weapons, games, science fiction, fantasy, and special effects...

LAB (2013) conjures the body as the trace of a sooty hand appears, spectrally, on a crumpled paper towel...