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Gallery Paule Anglim | 14 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA, 94108 |
May. 2 - Jun. 2, 2012
Gallery Paule Anglim presents a diverse collection of new works including three micro scale installations, three paintings with moving images, and a suite of ten related collages. Oursler's new work explores the complexities of everyday social interactions in the words and gestures of ephemeral characters, their presence both enhanced and negated by current communications technology, such as the Internet and telephonics. In a new mixture of formal approaches Oursler plays with scale, materials, motion and light, in a scale made possible with tiny new video projection technology.
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.