Photographic sculpture

"...the clumsiest narratives are often the narratives that assume prescribed movement from A to B. "

Parsons is currently hosting an exhibition of MFA Photography thesis work from the class of 2009. Fifteen graduates display the fruits of their labor after completing 3 intensive eight-week summer residencies and 2 years of independent studies. The works on view are impressive and definitely display fresh and exciting talent. Some of my favorite pieces include Lauren Pascarella's Photographic Sculpture, Daniel Durtsche's T.F. (Rotated 3,600 times) and Spectrum (Moved, scaled, and rotated…

Robert Heinecken

Born in 1974 in Frankfurt, Stefanie Herr initially worked as an architect and architectural model maker. But since 2007 she's been experimenting with photographic relief sculptures to make a point...

stone curve

Thomas Hauser is a graduate of the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée and completed post-graduate work at the California College of Arts in San Francisco. His work was recently exhibited at La Frontiera and the Un-Spaced gallery (Paris), the Centre d'art Image/Imatge (Orthez), and the Aperture Gallery (New York). As an architect of collective memory, he deconstructs the notion of the archive, subjecting his images to a process of degradation and abstraction. Although…

Repurposing photographs of childbirth.

Karen Navarro's unconventional portraits investigate the intersections of identity, self-representation, race, gender and belonging.

UK artist Matthew Stone's evocative sculptures use a combination of photography and architectural techniques. He frames the human body in geometric, 3D structures; the models in his images lie poetically contorted like the languid figures in Renaissance paintings. Stone also dabbles in performance art centered around the body, finding inspiration in the political and spiritual art of the 20th-century German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys. Take a look at some images of his sculptures courtesy of…