Site Specific
The tiny figures that dot Olivo Barbieri’s site-specific aerial photographs seem to be placed there by an invisible, looming architect.
The tiny figures that dot Olivo Barbieri’s site-specific aerial photographs seem to be placed there by an invisible, looming architect.
Photographer Jill Greenberg distorts, caricatures, and cartoons the face of the growling grizzly and the crying child.
Religious nuts make the front page each morning, but plenty of believers quietly practice their faith without violence or politicking. Going behind the doors of some of Ireland’s most private Catholic communities.
Rivka Shifman Katvan drops her own misfits into the scene for some theatrical improvisation, and captures the Coney Island with a touch of camp and whimsy, both removed and touching.
Stephen Earl Rogers is a figurative artist, working within the long tradition of representational art. Each painting has its own set of concerns and ideas, some formal and others more conceptual in nature.
Aaron Hobson’s pictures are very immediate—they’re familiar for anyone who’s spent time picking around America’s rust belt, but you linger for a while and notice the care with details and composition.
To Richard Ross, the DMV is more than an annoyance; it’s an example of authority at work in our daily lives.
Kohei Yoshiyuki’s 1970s photos capture peeping Toms raptly eyeing their prey in Tokyo parks.
Thomas Allen’s work brims with loose women, bad men, and secret, dangerous lives. Working with pulp novel covers, he infuses them with new life and narratives, pushing pulp’s roughish allusions into three dimensions.
Charlie White sends subtle messages. His photographs twist our social mores, commenting on the associations we make with famous (and imagined) events, art, and characters—revealing the monsters that hide in our corners.