'the artist statement'...lazy way out!!

The last time I listened to this much BS, I was talking to my ex-wife's lawyer ! . . .

Dave Leo (°1945, Brooklyn (NY), United States) makes photos, paintings, mixed media artworks and conceptual artworks. By choosing mainly formal solutions, Leo often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
His photos are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, he tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations.
His works doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His works are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. Dave Leo currently lives and works in Montepulciano, Italy.




(I lied about where I live 😀 )
 
Here's mine:
Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the essential unreality of the moment. As subtle replicas become distorted through diligent and academic practice, the viewer is left with a new agenda of the edges of our world; as momentary forms become clarified through diligent and personal practice, the viewer is left with a
new agenda of the inaccuracies of our culture.

What starts out as vision soon becomes corrupted into a dialectic of temptation, leaving only a sense of failing and the possibility of a new reality. As temporal derivatives become clarified through studious and diverse practice, the viewer is left with an insight into the edges of our future.

My work explores the relationship between Jungian archetypes and recycling culture as well as the relationship between the universality of myth and life as performance. This ongoing visual exploration includes but is not limited to the relationship between gender politics and midlife subcultures.

As spatial phenomena become distorted through frantic and critical practice, the viewer is left with a glimpse of the darkness of our world.
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I know this is not as in depth as many of the preceding artist statements are, but my approach always has been to keep my statement concise, focused and to the point so as to not confuse or overwhelm the prospective art buyer.
 
I think youv'e ALL gone MAD... 😱


Way too Wordy for my Taste... Yes I 'see' the Humor
But who would actually do this in the 'real' World
 
Gb Hill (°1959, Asheboro, United States) makes photos and photos. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Hill investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
His photos are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, he often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
His works are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, he focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting.
His works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. Gb Hill currently lives and works in Lexington.

I love it...makes photos & photo's 😀
 
Rat Lazy

Rat Lazy (°1961, Marl (Westf.), Germany) makes photos and paintings. By applying abstraction, Lazy seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
His photos are on the one hand touchingly beautiful, on the other hand painfully attractive. Again and again, the artist leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts. By manipulating the viewer to create confusion, he often creates several practically identical works, upon which thoughts that have apparently just been developed are manifested: notes are made and then crossed out again, ‘mistakes’ are repeated.
His works sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By emphasising aesthetics, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His works doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Rat Lazy currently lives and works in Shanghai.








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hm.

somewhat inspiring.



thanks for the link.
 
haha

James Ellis

James Ellis (°1985, Toronto) is an artist who mainly works with photography. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family structure and violence, Ellis touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His photos often refers to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, he focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting.
His works are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. By applying abstraction, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His works doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted.
 
Brilliant 😀

Paul L (°1978, United Kingdom) is an artist who mainly works with photography. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, L often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
His photos are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, he focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting.
His works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, his works references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.
His works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves.
 
I kid you not ... I only edited the date


Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (°1889, Salzburger, Austria) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, Hitler finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humour that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experiences a continuous loss.

His artworks are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly.

By questioning the concept of movement, he tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.

His works isolate the movements of humans and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. Adolf Hitler currently lives and works in European Domination.
 
Will G (°1971, United States) is an artist who mainly works with photography. By replaying the work for each exhibition and pushing the evocative power of the work a little further, G tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

His photos are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, he tries to focus on the activity of presenting. The character, shape or content of the presented artwork is secondary. The essential things are the momentary and the intention of presenting.

His works are presented with the aim not to provide an idealistic view but to identify where light and the environment are important. The energy of a place and its emotional and spiritual vibrations are always important. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, he often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.

His works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. Will G currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas.

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Now *that* is scary.... 😱
 
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