Eileen Quinlan
Eileen Quinlan was born 1972 BirthBoston MA, USA.
Lives and works in HomeBrooklyn, New York.
Categories: Photography
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Eileen Quinlan is interested in the false transparency of the photographic image. For her, it’s not a window, but a mirror. To force an engagement with the surface of this illusion, she employs crude alienation effects. The process of building pictures with a limited set of materials is illustrated, serving to further highlight the photograph’s constructed nature…
I’m interested in the false transparency of the photographic image. It’s not a window, but a mirror. To force an engagement with the surface of this illusion, to resist its easy narrativization, I employ crude alienation effects. Color, atmosphere, time, composition, description are reduced to their most basic forms. The process of building images with a limited set of materials is illustrated, serving to further highlight the photograph’s constructed nature…’
Smoke & Mirrors
Quinlan’s beguiling images invite us to appreciate the mechanics and psychology inherent in the construction of pictures,” says Jen Mergel, Associate Curator at the ICA/Boston. “Her works recall the pure abstraction of Modernist painting, but are actually direct representations of the items used to create backdrops in commercial photography. Evoking the sleek environment of an ad campaign, her imagery is seductive yet product-free, prompting imaginative projections instead of quick recognition. The sheer beauty of Quinlan’s work encourages us to reconsider assumed limits and potential for the photographic image…
Smoke & Mirrors #111
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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