In Restaurant, Canton, Ohio (2011), a convenience store offers food, liquor, and Coca Cola to an empty street. A series of boarded-up storefronts marred by peeling paint conveys a sense of the pre- or post-apocalyptic—the hush just before or after a disaster. The reds, pinks, and oranges of the buildings give off warmth, but the absence of human activity makes the glow eerie and strange. Once a booming steel town, Canton is now struggling, and many of its buildings have been neglected for decades. While the location of William E. Jones’s photograph is specific, we can’t help extrapolating to imagine any Main Street, USA, that has been left to atrophy in the wake of big industry gone bust.
Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker William E. Jones appropriates vintage film material that he rearranges into new compositions. Often concerned with the way gay imagery was depicted in 1970s and 1980s, Jones’s early films explore the complex configuration of homosexual identity with a rather nostalgic and romanticized gaze. Though fashioned in the same way, his later pieces look more directly at pornography and the appearance of fetish in popular culture.
The Striation Scrap Lamps (vertical and horizontal) although functioning as utilitarian objects also represent Jason Meadows’s interest in a certain kind of crafted sculpture...
Donald of Doom Tank (2008) is a replica of a vintage metal toy with Donald Duck’s image one side and a soldier on the other...
Jeep Comics is based on the second of only two issues published by RB Leffingwell and Company in 1944–45...
Titled afterTruman Capote’s protagonist famously played by Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Holly Golightly (2011) captures the essence of the character: seductive and bold, mysterious and capricious...
His series, The Golden State, harkens back to his early career and his photographic training...
The Striation Scrap Lamps (vertical and horizontal) although functioning as utilitarian objects also represent Jason Meadows’s interest in a certain kind of crafted sculpture...
Donald of Doom Tank (2008) is a replica of a vintage metal toy with Donald Duck’s image one side and a soldier on the other...
Jeep Comics is based on the second of only two issues published by RB Leffingwell and Company in 1944–45...
Podcast Interview: Performance Photographers | Arts Equator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Festival (Podcast) Crispian Chan (by Izdiyad Ahmad), Bernie Ng (by Biru Chua), Kuang Jingkai April 24, 2019 Duration: 45 min In this interview with Crispian Chan , Bernie Ng and Kuang Jingkai , three photographers of theatre and dance, we get to know more about a profession that’s sometimes taken for granted but is an essential aspect of the packaging of a performance...
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His series, The Golden State, harkens back to his early career and his photographic training...
In the early 20th century, the Hercules Engine Company was doing a brisk business producing customized, heavy-duty engines...
Foreigners Everywhere is a series of neon signs in several different languages...
dbqp is a photographic series in which the artist handles an enlargement of the plate with three cutout windows which was used for L’Archipel (The Archipelago) in collaboration with Pierre Leguillon...
Thomas’ lenticular text-based works require viewers to shift positions as they view them in order to fully absorb their content...
Epiphany…learnt through hardship is composed of a bronze sculpture depicting the model of the little dancer of Degas, in the pose of a female nude photographed by Edward Weston (Nude, 1936) accompanied by a blue cube...
Butter Mountain is part of an ongoing series of works that combines a sense of painterly mass and substance with sculptural language to examine the synergy between a topographical landscape and a landscape of the human condition...