Tony Oursler
Artist Cv
Tony Oursler has always considered himself an Artist rather than a Video Artists. He has used the medium of film to create his own unique sculptural aesthetic, taking the images out of the television box and making them function in three-dimensional space. A recurrent theme in Oursler's work is the way in which visual technologies influence and even modify our social and psychological selves. His practice continuously engages with popular culture and questions how systems of mechanical reproduction, like photography, film and television, have come to dictate not only the way we see the world, but also the ways that images are constructed. Ourlser's formal vocabulary is deceptively simple, employing objects of everyday life, both high and low, that range from kitsch to folk art, and investing them with a new aesthetic meaning. A key feature of his work is the ways in which the human body comes into play. On one level the body is employed in a very literal sense through the projection of fragmented and alienating body parts onto fibreglass forms. On another level the body functions through the encounter with the work. Oursler's scenarios constantly invoke the very human wish to lose oneself in fantasy.
Tony Oursler works and lives in New York, US
www.tonyoursler.com
Artist Contact
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Artist Exhibitions
Tony Oursler September 3 - October 3, 2008View Exhibition
Tony Oursler September 17 - November 1, 2003
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Tony Oursler March 11 - April 20, 2000
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Tony Oursler January 19 - February 24, 1996
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Tony Oursler, Kate Ericson, Mel Ziegler February 4 - March 26, 1994
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Artist Images
Surface Tension, 2006 Fibreglass form, dvd, dvd player and projector 178 x 70 x 112 cm
Burst, 2005 Fibreglass form, dvd, dvd player and projector 142 x 92 x 49 cm
Installation view Lisson Gallery 17th September - 1st November 2003
Features (Skins), 2002 24 perspex cubes and single DVD projection and sound 100 x 100 cm
Actions Speak Louder than Images, 1998 Mixed media with video projection 152.5 x 91.5 x 76 cm