PAST EXHIBITION
Oliver Herring
October 2, 2009—January 31, 2010
New York-based artist Oliver Herring collaborates with friends and
strangers in the creation of his sculptures, performances, and video
art. This exhibition includes figurative works in which the artist
first makes photographic close-ups of his subjects’ entire bodies. He
then sculpts the form of their bodies out of polystyrene. The
photographs are cut into jigsaw puzzle-like shapes and adhered to the
sculpted figures, lending the uncanny quality of a photograph seen in
the round. Herring manipulates the color and value contrasts in his
photographic fragments, giving the sculptures a camouflage-like
surface, emphasizing the inherent artificiality and social masking that
are a subliminal consequence of photography.
Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
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