Bress has been showing his beautifully gonzo single-channel projections and photo collages all over the world lately, with exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, the Museo d’arte contemporanea in Rome and LACMA. Cherry & Martin is showing a selection of his projections.
Brian Bress: Cherry & Martin, Los Angeles
According to his gallery, "Bress’s wall-mounted HD monitors show a soundless, digital loop in which isolated actors (often the artist himself) perform in various forms of dress — their faces, torsos and arms obscured by sculptural masks and suits or paint."
Charlie White: LOOCK Gallery, Berlin
White came to prominence in the early 2000s with his photographic series “Understanding Joshua,” depicting a strange puppet creature in disturbing situations. Since then, White’s weird world has investigated youth culture and American identity through photography and video, leading to exhibitions at LACMA, the Singapore Biennial and screenings at the Cannes Film Festival and Sundance. His latest series of photographs, “Self Portrait,” depicts young models and still-life scenes in front of a crosshatched background.
Gina Osterloh: François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Osterloh is known for her investigations into surrealism and philosophically informed photographs, often using paper sets and cutout forms to create a sense of unsettled identity. Her work has recently been seen at LACE, Los Angeles; Yerba Beuna Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila, the Philippines. For Paris Photo, she is presenting various iterations of the “Room” series. One of those works in particular, “Reclining Man” (2012), shows an abstracted cutout of a man resting in a room the same color as he.
Gina Osterloh: François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
“In all of those works, I’m interested in the collapse of three-dimensional space into two-dimensional space,” Osterloh tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m always thinking about the history of photography coming from the history of drawing and the inherent voyeuristic quality of looking. I’m not necessarily trying to make a gender statement, but instead of a reclining woman, I wanted to see a reclining man.”
Matt Lipps: Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
Lipps uses collaged images, often from a single source for each series, to create indexical, dense photographic assemblages. His work is in the collections of LACMA, MOCA and the Hammer Museums. He is showing pieces from his most recent body of work, "Library," which utilizes images from the 17-volume Time-Life set Library of Photography.
“I like to interrogate how [photographs] work on me and how I might be able to redeploy certain parts of images in order to present new possibilities for myself and the viewer to see again what we think we ‘already know’ about a photograph or even a whole genre of photography.”
Zackary Drucker: Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Drucker and her partner and oft-collaborator Rhys Ernst have been taking the world by storm with their charged, droll films about transgender politics, with a recent screening at the Hammer Museum, as well as an inclusion of a series of photographs in this year’s Whitney Biennial. At Paris Photo, they present intimate photos from the early days of their relationship through their respective transitions.
Zackary Drucker: Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles
“The photographs on display document the narrative arc of our five-and-a-half year relationship starting with when we met,” Drucker tells THR. “The photographs were made from a diaristic impulse. They weren’t necessarily intended to be a series of images for public consumption, until years into our relationship, we realized, ‘Oh, this is a really incredible archive of material.’”