Elad
Lassry
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Born in Tel-Aviv in 1977
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Came to the Us when he was 20
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BFA-2003 from California Institute of the Arts
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Studied film and visual arts
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Lives and works in LA
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Interested in common images that can be
familiarized with often pertaining to commercial photography
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Considers himself more as a sculpture than a
photographer
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Builds his imagery
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Studio, appropriating, film, drawing and
sculpture
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Enables Lassry to develop a unique style in
contemporary art and is able to place a strong focus on investigating the
nature of the viewers perception and meaning of the image
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Approaches art with humor and is interested in
the confusion when something is slightly wrong in the photograph
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Questions the status of a picture and the limits
he can push it to
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Attracted to the post-modern notion of losing
authorship, location and index of a picture
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Interested in the interaction and the experience
between the viewer and the image and less about the mechanical aspects and
manipulation of the image
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Combines a photographs aesthetic with a visual
experience by carefully creating small scale with a precise composition
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Lassry describes his pictures as something that
is suspended between a sculpture and an image
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Achieves by play on virtual and actual space
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Image=virtual
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Frame=actual
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Painted with a dominant color found in image
becomes an extension of the image itself. Becomes an object
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Strips down a photograph into its raw elements
enabling the viewer to explore a new experience of the photograph itself to
become a physical object
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Achieves this by covering parts of the image to
display only the photographic paper’s background
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Places emphasis on shape and form by the objects
crossing into the picture which challenges the primacy of the “original” image
that is contained with in the frame
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The Kitchen in NYC
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Created an exhibit both 2D and 3D
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Use of images and flat objects
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Exhibited 16mm film alongside images
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Does this to investigate a picture’s meaning
which allows him to negate familiar cinematic notion that gets dismantled and
the picture gets another circulation
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Sensory Spaces
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Builds sculptures that act as a separating wall
that forced the viewer to walk around it and the sculpture also interfered with
the work and how it could be viewed from afar
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See a transition from 3D to 2D and vise versa
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Looking through plays with shapes in his work
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Interferes with the viewer’s perception
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Performance
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Represented by dance
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Mimicked performances by famous choreographers
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Stage surrounded by simple colored objects that
act as both the stage setting and sculpture
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Mirrored his imagery and 3D sculptures
Lassry works in different
disciplines and often questions the relationships between them
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