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© Alison Brady

Alison Brady photographs with an eye towards capturing our unconscious
emotions, desires and sexual compulsions. Subjects are harvested then
placed in meticulously curated settings and costumes that ping pong
between the real and the fantastic. Morbid fascination of contrasts as
polar as the sacred and profane populate her work and grip you. An
underlying tension of madness and alienation seeps out from the edges
of the compositions. Brady hones in on expressions of neurosis,
anxiety, displacement and loss of identity that permeate the
contemporary human condition. Translating these unseen, but very deep
feelings, into visual metaphors of grotesque exaggeration then staging
them against banal middle-class suburban backdrops compounds the
dynamism of her art. Each image is an immediate impression akin to the
flash in a mind’s eye that has dissapeared but exists in the sticky
corners of where our contradictory compulsions live, which in Brady’s
world are usually covered in tacky wallpaper and generic homeliness.

september 8 - november 5

hous projects
31 howard street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013

http://www.housprojects.com

opening hours: Tues-Sat 10am-6pm

Carol Bove, "At home in the universe," 2001.
Two woodshelves with columns, 10 books, brackets, steel clips, 61,6 x
77,5 x 25,4 cm.

Museum Morsbroich
Gustav-Heinemann-Strasse 80
D-51377 Leverkusen
Germany

www.museum-morsbroich.de

Lisa Yuskavage's "Outskirts" (2011)

Courtesy David Zwirner Gallery

source: http://www.artinfo.com/news/enlarged_image/38664/275309/

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
Italy, Leonor Fini, 1933
Gelatin silver print, printed later. 35.6 x 23.8 cm (14 x 9 3/8 in).
Signed in ink and blindstamp credit in the margin.
ESTIMATE £2,000-3,000 ‡

SOLD AT £3,750

http://www.phillipsdepury.com/auctions/lot-detail/HENRI-CARTIER-BRESSON/UK040...

Summer is gone & it looks like ArtBoobs is back!

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Vincent Desiderio
Sink, 2010
oil on paper on prepared board
48 x 64 1/2 inches

"Vincent Desiderio’s new work revels in the uninhibited toughness of
paint. He exploits this toughness to underscore the absolute presence
of the work in all its unapologetic materiality. As such this work
demonstrates the unique capacity of painting to anchor the viewer in a
tangible present tense of viewing, while inducing a trance of
speculation regarding, among other things, the nature of illusion."

Sep 15 2011 - Oct 15 2011 at http://www.marlboroughgallery.com/

"The Island is an ongoing project that documents life on the Outer
Banks of North Carolina."

http://www.timgruber.com/the-island/janass-2/

via Conscientious ( http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/ )

Albert Watson has made his mark as one of the world's most successful
fashion and commercial photographers during the last four decades,
while creating his own art along the way.

Over the years, his striking images have appeared on more than 250
covers of Vogue around the world and have been featured in countless
other publications, from Rolling Stone to Time to Vibe many of the
photographs iconic portraits of rock stars, rappers, actors and other
celebrities. All the while, Albert has spent much of his time working
on personal projects, creating stunning images from his travels, from
Marrakech to Las Vegas to the Orkneys. Much of this work, along with
his well-known portraits and fashion photographs, has been featured in
museum and gallery shows around the world. The photo industry bible,
Photo District News, named Albert one of the 20 most influential
photographers of all time. 
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland,
Albert studied graphic design at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art and Design in Dundee, and film and television at the Royal College
of Art in London.

Opening/ Thursday, September 15 from 18:30 to 21:30.
Exhibition/ September 15 to November 26

http://www.acte2photo.com/