Miska Draskoczy

Red Vines
Photographs courtesy of Tepper Takayama Fine Arts

Miska Draskoczy

Spring Tangle
Photographs courtesy of Tepper Takayama Fine Arts

Miska Draskoczy

Sunflower
Photographs courtesy of Tepper Takayama Fine Arts

Miska Draskoczy

Moon Dock
Photographs courtesy of Tepper Takayama Fine Arts

Miska Draskoczy

Tree Shadow
Photographs courtesy of Tepper Takayama Fine Arts

Miska Draskoczy aims to turn concepts of nature photography on their head by finding the beautiful in what most consider to be a man-made environmental catastrophe: the Gowanus Canal and surrounding industrial neighborhood.

PostedFebruary 20, 2014

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In calculated performances that intersect with photography’s documentary potential, Adam Ekberg explores ephemeral occurrences that can serve as metaphors for existence. Making such humble events happen is alchemy of sorts, the transformation of the mundane into the poignant.

PostedFebruary 19, 2014

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Luke Barber-Smith

tower study #2, 2013, chromogenic prints, steel, magnets

Luke Barber-Smith's tower series is a continuing investigation into the emotional language of architecture. Built from steel, photographic prints and magnets, the towers are a study of color and form, both in relation to a modern structure of larger proportion.

PostedFebruary 18, 2014

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The body of material in Studio Work was developed during Paul Sepuya's 2011-2012 artist residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The project is both a volume of photographs—formal portraits, loose snapshots, still-lifes and details of the his studio space—and an ongoing and variable installation composed of those materials accumulated in the studio, tracing the artist’s occupation and photo-making from the beginning to the end of the residency.

PostedFebruary 17, 2014

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CategoriesExhibitions, Artists

TagsPaul Mpagi Sepuya, 808 Gallery, Boston University

Vincent Bezuidenhout

Facing north towards O.R. Tambo International Airport, this water park in Boksburg was reserved for the use of the ‘white’ population during the apartheid era.

Vincent Bezuidenhout

Situated between Clifton and Camps Bay, Maiden’s Cove was one of the few beaches on the Atlantic seaboard reserved for the exclusive use of the ‘coloured’ population. During apartheid, a fence was erected between Maiden’s Cove and Bachelor’s Cove (a beach used by the homosexual community) as a means of keeping these two groups separate.

Vincent Bezuidenhout

The industrial port of Port Elizabeth was used as a buffer zone between the beach reserved for the ‘black’ population to the north, and all beaches south of the coal depot which were previously reserved for the exclusive use of ‘white’ people under apartheid.

Vincent Bezuidenhout

The ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) still owns a substantial part of Hartenbos today. The facilities were reserved for the exclusive use of the ‘white’ population during apartheid.

Vincent Bezuidenhout

Facing westwards from Soccer City and surrounded by the Crown Mines dump, this area was originally intended as a water park for the exclusive use of the ‘black’ population of Soweto during apartheid. Shareworld was never completed.

Michel Foucault said: "A whole history remains to be written of spaces – which would at the same time be the history of powers." This body of photographs examines the way in which the landscape was constructed to enforce separation, in the form of separate amenities, during the time of apartheid in South Africa.

PostedFebruary 14, 2014

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TagsVincent Bezuidenhout

Miska Draskoczy

Adam Ekberg

Luke Barber-Smith

STUDIO WORK by Paul Mpagi Sepuya at 808 Gallery, Boston University

Artist Portfolio: Vincent Bezuidenhout