Tag Archives: contemporary

Polly Morgan: Still Life After Death

The following excerpts from the April 2008 issue of Telegraph Magazine highlight the object-making aspect of taxidermy, which is exactly what makes Morgan’s work compelling. By repositioning the prepared animal away from naturalism and science, these tableaux reveal them as purely material, as jarringly unnatural. Since there is no attempt to give them any kind [...]

David Paul Bayles: Falling Trees

David Paul Bayles [via Flak Photo]

Colin Blakely: Somewhere in Middle America

From Mr. Blakely’s artist’s statement:
I live quietly in this midwestern city of ghosts and mutterers.
Charles Baxter
[...] In the most basic sense, this project is about the 400 and 500 blocks of Keech Avenue, an examination of my immediate surroundings…
… Overall, the work tells the story of a community that is holding on to a vanishing [...]