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Orit Ben-Shitrit

image-692 Artist Statement One of the oldest cities in the world, Jerusalem has always been infused with fracture and duplicity, which carry on to this day in the city’s fabric and leaders. As reverent home to three of the world’s major religions, Jerusalem embodies Foucault’s idea of a heterotopia — an impossible ...

Richard Silver

image-560 Construction Workers Vegas Caracas Marketplace Eiffel Tower Acropolis Taj Mahal Artist Statement “TILT-SHIFT”ing the World Tilt-Shift, What type of photography is that? people always ask me. How do I make people look so small or why do I make people look so small, simple…WE ARE. In the big picture we are just a small blip of what ...

Leah Oates

image-542 Leah Oates, Transitory Space, Beijing, China, color photography, 2008-09 Artist Statement Of human life time is a point, and the substance is in flux...and what belongs to the soul is dream and vapor.... Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations The work I create first originates as a response to overlooked space that is in a continual ...

Kwabena Slaughter

image-507 Oh, Very, Yes!, detail 1 Oh, Very, Yes!, detail 2 Installation View Artist Statement I think of cameras, along with photographs, as cultural artifacts. In the same way that an anthropologist can look at jewelry or clothing to learn about the culture that created those things, the design of a camera and the photos ...

Ralph Maratta

image-3869 The Fowlers Trap Tangled with the Rabbit Holes The Shortest Distance Between Two Kindred Souls Is Love Wormholes in a Tree Artist Statement Big Dreams focuses around the idea that humankind shares a sort of imagery bank; elementary ideas from the beginning of time or archetypes as described by Carl Jung. With that said, ...

Cara Phillips

image-3865 Before & After Room, Tribeca. 2007 White Consultation Chair, Upper East Side. 2006 Implants, Upper East Side. 2008 Singular Beauty “The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson This ...

Summer (Part One)

image-3864 Valery Rizzo @ http://www.valeryrizzo.com/ Wonder Wheel, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 2007 Valery Rizzo @ http://www.valeryrizzo.com/ Pin-Up Girls, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 2007 Lara Wechsler @ http://www.larawechsler.com Sprinkler Fun Lara Wechsler @ http://www.larawechsler.com Flying John Tebeau @ http://www.tebeau.com Nathan's John Tebeau @ http://www.tebeau.com Summer Grill

Karen Connell

image-3860 SEASCAPES The seascapes are a series titled 'Anywhere But Here'. The series consists of 436 different scenes.  The water is actually 1/8' thick pieces of clear, vacuum-formed plastic.  The varied molded forms create the wave structure. The water color is created by placing layers of acetate underneath the plastic.  The coloring ...