ART EXPERTS SAY...
Kevin Freitas: I like Tyler Jordan’s piece for its relevancy to today.
Amy Galpin: The reflection of the signs in the windows
It’s titled Global Warming, and it looks like the streets of New York are being awash in this huge tsunami wave, but there’s also a lot of humor in the piece. I love that there are surfers riding the tsunami and water flowing into the sewer. It’s a compelling piece because of all the disastrous events that are going on in the world today, and it all seems rather poignant since global warming is definitely in the news.
demonstrates that the artist is a master of his technique. There are also some surprising elements in the piece; figures in wetsuits carrying surfboards and walking in the urban environment is surprising and therefore makes it an engaging image. I think that an attraction to a particular work of art really relates to how it’s important to our time, and this is a great moment for this piece.
ART EXPERTS SAY...
Galpin: What’s really interesting about this piece is the emphasis on color. The blue cabinets, the blue napkins, the purple flowers, the red vase; the color really comes through in this photograph. I, too, am drawn to sort of the element of the mundane, or daily life existence: the sort of stare off into nowhere, the eating of bagels and cornflakes, the man with one of those blue plastic bracelets. They’re very common; I like that element of it. In some ways there are a lot of serious undertones to this piece, but there’s also an artist playing with humor, and that’s really fun to see.
Freitas: This artist did a fabulous show a couple months Andrew Printer:
This image is part of an ongoing series titled Second Thoughts From Normal Heights. Each photograph in the series lifts a convoluted gesture employed by an iconic homosexual photographer of the twentieth century in the name of desire and drops it into a contemporary domestic space in Normal Heights, San Diego. My intention is to draw parallels between the convoluted tactics found in my source material (designed to circumvent censure by adhering to codes of Art, fitness, social documentation) and the equally peculiar drift of the broader LGBT community toward hetero-normative “respectability,” at the expense of its unique history.
Rob and Ted (photography)
ago in San Diego at the Agitprop Gallery. I was impressed by the show and the subject matter. I particularly love this image of two men sitting at a table eating breakfast, of a perfect quintessential couple, bored, distracted, disinterested—a lot of humor in this piece. A lot of social critique, a lot of cultural references. Compositionally, I think Andrew’s elements of domesticity are really strong and compelling.
Artist: ANDREW PRINTER, AGE UNREVEALED, AZALEA PARK
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Fourth Place
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