Specialties
Abstract, Conceptual, Contemporary
Tony Oursler
New York, NY (American, b. 1957)
Wall space has always been a hierarchical space. It’s a sacred territory. It seems to belong to the seamless painting. If you’re a painter, you paint from one side of the canvas to the other, and right now ’70s magazine illustration is the vogue.
There’s a history of experimental collage and stuff that’s been glossed over and lost because of people’s notions of craft. If you’re a photographer, it’s like Rauschenberg never happened. You just do huge, gorgeous, seamless photographs, and that’s your craft. It’s a very strange moment. Of course I like to muck it up. It’s just so antithetical to the recent history that I’ve experienced.
I’m really interested in what I call a...
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