Reflection Paper No.2

In Action no...

Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands....

Ben Shaffer’s Ben Deroy (2007) is part performance, part self-portrait, and part spiritual vision...

Houck’s Peg and John was made as part of a series of photographic works that capture objects from the artist’s childhood...

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

Human Quarry is a large work on paper by Leslie Shows made of a combination of acrylic paint and collage...

Sign #1 , Sign #2 , Sign #3 were included in “Found Object Assembly”, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco...

No World is an action-filled video work filmed inside an abandoned museum in the Songzhuang area outside Beijing...

Though the title might suggest an Adonis, Jeffry Mitchell’s The Swimmer (2012) is a squat, jolly man with a protuberant belly...

There are several elements to Subject, Silver, Prism ...

One Million is a video work depicting the counting of bills...

In the video installation A Gust of Wind , Zhang continues to explore notions of perspective and melds them seamlessly with a veiled but incisive social critique...

The Last Post was inspired by Sikander’s ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China...

Choke documents the artist filming a wrestler “choking out” his teammate until he is unconscious...

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...

Sexy shows Yan Xing unsuccessfully trying to reach orgasm in freezing temperatures among the falling rocks and howling winds of a precarious canyon...

Continuing Oursler’s broader exploration of the moving image, Absentia is one of three micro-scale installations that incorporate small objects and tiny video projections within a miniature active proscenium...

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

The four-channel video installation Same Old Crowd departs from the documentation of an unknown city and takes place in an ambiguous temporal and spatial frame...