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    I Write Artist Statements
    I Write Artist Statements
    I Write Artist Statements
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    I Write Artist Statements

    By Liz Sales and Matthew Carson

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    This delightful little paperback consists of humorously inventive fictionalized artist statements. The recent explosion of interest in academic art programs around the world has led to a dramatic increase in overwritten, hyperbolic artist statements. I Write Artist Statements skewers popular art school clichés while describing impossible projects that simply could not exist off of the printed page.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaylight Books
    Release dateAug 14, 2018
    ISBN9781942084600
    I Write Artist Statements
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    Liz Sales

    Liz Sales is an artist, writer, and educator. Her work deals primarily with the relationship between photography and perception. She is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography and writes for photo-based art magazines, including Conveyor Magazine and Foam Magazine. Sales lives and works in New York City.

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      I Write Artist Statements - Liz Sales

      The Mad Libs Statement

      Martin Shear

      Martin Shear is a self-taught artist who works as a custodian at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, by day and paints, from photographs, on small, pre-stretched canvas in acrylic by night. His family’s home is filled with dozens and dozens of paintings that measure 8 × 10 inches, as well as a handful of even smaller ones placed on shelves. Some of these paintings are made from postcards depicting the Nashville skyline, because the skyline is pretty and familiar, while other paintings depict his wife’s guitars because he likes painting guitars and Betsy owns quite a few.

      Like other artists who have chosen to live far from the Chelsea galleries, he regularly posts his paintings on Facebook and Instagram. His paintings are just the right scale for documenting with his Samsung Galaxy 6 and posting on social media sites. Friends and strangers see and like his work: they give him encouragement and, sometimes, they reach out to him about purchasing a piece. Essentially, Shear is happier than you are. You’re way too fucking precious about your work.

      Untitled Artist Statement

      These stunning images of sidewalk litter shot in nature highlight our undeniable impact on the environment, including the urban environment. My interest in repurposing trash in the service of art began on the day I volunteered to chaperone my son’s Cub Scouts troop on their community service day, collecting litter. While the boys removed the refuse from the sidewalk, placing it in trash and recycling receptacles, I watched, struck by the beauty of a crushed Fanta can backlit in the gold tones of the early morning light.

      I began transforming garbage into art. I shot cigarette butts, straws, latex balloons, Styrofoam cups, used condoms, and an old set of flip-flops, leaving each where I found it. These images bring attention to the environmental issue of trash, beautifully rendered trash. All the items imaged began as useful objects, but as a result of human behavior, negligence, or forgetfulness, they ended up on the street. I transform this trash into art with an important message: I am a special person who sees beauty everywhere.

      Fans of my street photography often ask me, Is that real, or did you use Photoshop? I do not mess with nature. I create art. I am a photographer who posts final images straight from my camera to Flack Photo’s Facebook page. These images are true in the truest sense and fully express who I am and what I see in the most literal sense. When I take a picture of a seagull soaring over Bay Harbor, I am not speaking about elevated consciousness or self-confidence or whatever else you’ve written in my comments section; I am taking a great picture of a bird, by panning my camera along in time with this moving subject so that the bird is a relatively sharp subject but the background is blurred. Panning is a technique that can produce amazing results if you perfect it, which I have.

      Some say the term photographer fails to accurately describe the vast majority of artists working with cameras. These people are wrong. A real photographer is able to perfectly capture the scene in front of him and share it with his online community. If he is honest and open, he will also share his ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. This technical information is the artist’s real artist statement. Artist statements as the liberal elite are taught to write them, in their nurseries of higher learning, add nothing to the photographic image, which should speak for itself.

      May the light be with you!

      Gustav M. Christoffersen

      Gustav M. Christoffersen (b. 1992, Oakland) is a space artist who creates photo-based pulp sculptures as an architectural stage for his social practice, which is concerned with the narrative of cyclical realities. Christoffersen urges us to renegotiate physical realities as being part of oppressing themes in our post-contemporary, image-based society. By choosing formal non-solutions, he creates hyper-personal moments born by means of omissions, refusal, and Elmer’s glue. He invites the viewer round and round in circles of photographic sculptural matter. He manipulates these structures in order to deconstruct socially defined spaces and their uses and

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