Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Wednesday Work: Alex Clauss


Series of 3-color screenprints 6.5 X 12.5"

Testimony, 2009 
Single-channel video
(I really wish this had been called "Dinkin' Around" or "Hinkey Dinkey")

5 color screenprint 13X9"


September is over, (was it ever really here?) and creative-costume-figuring-out has ensued. I truly love this time of year. It's the richest, most brilliant, macabre, and strange; Halloween is that time of year when innocence and eerie collide into one traditional celebration. (Pint-sized bleeding zombies and vampires running around your hood begging for candy anyone!? )

Even though Alex Clauss' work is not necessarily centered around Halloween, it definitely gives the same sort of feeling. Clauss' prints and videos collectively show their observer a spectral and nostalgic sensibility, and even a bit of bizarre humor.

Read more about Alex Clauss and his wonderfully strange work HERE

And the most fitting for last, this one actually is in the essence of the coming holiday.


Automation2008
Single-channel video


Mwaaa Haa Haaaa....

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