Tony Oursler was born in new york in 1957. He completed a BA in fine arts at the California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California in 1979. His art covers a range of mediums working with video, sculpture, installation, performance and painting. Oursler's work has been exhibited in prestigious institutions including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Documenta VIII, IX, Kassel, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Skulptur Projekte, Munster, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, the tate, Liverpool. The artist currently lives and works in New York City.
http://www.tonyoursler.com
I love Ourslers work, I have done since I saw it exhibited at a contemporary digital art gallery in barcelona back in 2005. These projected faces onto simple body sulptures have conversations with eachother and really impressed me.
His work spans 3 decades and there is so much and all of it seems so crazy, bright, big and loud, I love it!
I've been thinking about something i said when i was looking at Robbie Cooper's work, about the body being an empty shell and our lives being lived in the digial world. I wonder if we could map faces onto masks. I've seen some people map faces onto faces, but could we map faces, or body parts onto masks being worn by people... I've jumped the gun a bit because I want to try a couple of other things first. but this could be good.
http://www.tonyoursler.com
I love Ourslers work, I have done since I saw it exhibited at a contemporary digital art gallery in barcelona back in 2005. These projected faces onto simple body sulptures have conversations with eachother and really impressed me.
His work spans 3 decades and there is so much and all of it seems so crazy, bright, big and loud, I love it!
I've been thinking about something i said when i was looking at Robbie Cooper's work, about the body being an empty shell and our lives being lived in the digial world. I wonder if we could map faces onto masks. I've seen some people map faces onto faces, but could we map faces, or body parts onto masks being worn by people... I've jumped the gun a bit because I want to try a couple of other things first. but this could be good.
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