PAST EXHIBITION
Directions: Walead Beshty
April 30, 2009—September 13, 2009
Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty creates photographs and
sculptures that reconsider some of the fundamental premises of modern
art. Beshty’s mesmerizing photographs blend an enduring fascination
with modernist visual culture and an astute inquiry into the nature of
photography. He often works with historical formats, including
stereographs and photograms, but he also makes use of more recent
technologies, such as color processors and digital printers. The
resulting pieces reflect Beshty’s concomitant interest in the
historical, conceptual, and formal premises of the medium. Moreover,
his practice brings attention to the ideological underpinnings of
aesthetics, the indeterminacy of viewing, and the ways photography
shapes our understanding of both history and the world around us.
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