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Art Subject: Sea
Rainbow Through The Clouds, East Hampton New York
Located in Miami, FL
Magical moment of people on the beach with a rainbow in the sky. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower righ...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet

Caribbean Sea, Aerials
Located in New York City, NY
Sergio Ranalli Caribbean Sea, Aerials, 2017 60 x 82 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print Unframed Ask us for framing options. Also available in: 30 x 40 inches - Edition ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Caribbean Sea, Aerials
Located in New York City, NY
Sergio Ranalli Caribbean Sea, Aerials, 2017 44 x 60 inches Edition of 10 Archival Pigment Print Unframed Ask us for framing options.
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Nature Abstraction #11, Canastra (Color Abstract Photography)
Located in New York City, NY
Rodrigo Katayama Nature Abstraction #11, Canastra (Color Abstract Photography) 71 x 48 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print Framed
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Photography of Earth and Nature series - Tranquility - Edn of 8
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a new series of photography featuring the icy tranquil waters of Finland. The beauty of the light and landscape is unparalleled and as such the inspiration for our photograph...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lands and Waters 21, Path, United Kingdom
Located in New York City, NY
Lands and Waters 21, Path, United Kingdom, 2016 32x40 inches Edition of 9 Archival Pigment Print Unframed Also available in: 48x60 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print Unfram...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lands and Waters 16, Westcombe, United Kingdom
Located in New York City, NY
Lands and Waters 16, Westcombe, United Kingdom, 2016 32x40 inches Edition of 9 Archival Pigment Print UNFRAMED Also available in: 48x60 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print U...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lands and Waters 24, Wales Coast, United Kingdom
Located in New York City, NY
Lands and Waters 24, Wales Coast, United Kingdom, 2016 32x40 inches Edition of 9 Archival Pigment Print UNFRAMED Also available in: 48x60 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Broome 1, Western Australia - Ocean Series
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 7 + 2AP “These works present my abiding interest in the thresholds that divide and connect the sea to land. I am fascinated with the quality of light and the spatial imme...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Atlantic Ocean I, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Atlantic Ocean I, Brazil 40 x 60 inches - Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print Unframed ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in São Paulo, Sérgio Ranalli manages to ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Tide Pool, Australia
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 10 + 2AP “These works present my abiding interest in the thresholds that divide and connect the sea to land. I am fascinated with the quality of light and the spatial imm...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Costazzurra 1, Realmonte, Agrigento, Italy
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 10 + 2AP “These works present my abiding interest in the thresholds that divide and connect the sea to land. I am fascinated with the quality of light and the spatial imm...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Costazzurra 2, Realmonte, Agrigento, Italy
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 10 + 2AP “These works present my abiding interest in the thresholds that divide and connect the sea to land. I am fascinated with the quality of light and the spatial imm...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Stuck!
Located in Fairfield, CT
Geoff Reinhard is a photographer and producer based in New York City. Originally from Chicago, Geoff has a degree in architecture from the University of Southern California and attended the prestigious Portfolio Center in Atlanta. He began his creative career in advertising in São Paulo, Brazil eventually arriving on Madison Avenue where he created award winning multi-media campaigns for clients including HBO, Nike, Grey Goose, Tommy Hilfiger, Johnson & Johnson and the City of New York. With an eye for design and a passion for the visual medium, Geoff’s travels to Guatemala in 2007 with renowned photographer Phil Borges...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Nature Abstracts III, 2015
Located in New York City, NY
Rodrigo Katayama Nature Abstracts III, 2015 41 x 27.5 inches Edition of 13 60 x 40 inches Edition of 9 71 x 48 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ibicoara, Bahia, Brazil, 2015
Located in New York City, NY
Rodrigo Katayama Ibicoara, Bahia, Brazil, 2015 41 x 27.5 inches Edition of 13 60 x 40 inches Edition of 9 71 x 48 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Tide Pool, Australia
Located in New York City, NY
David Burdeny Tide Pool, Australia, 2017 Archival Pigment Print Signature Label Price for Print only. Ask us for framing options.
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Falaises d´Etretat, Normandy, France
Located in New York City, NY
David Burdeny Falaises d´Etretat, Normandy, France, 2017 Archival Pigment Print Signature Label Price for Print only. Ask us for framing options.
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

L'aiguille after Monet, Etretat, Normandy, France
Located in New York City, NY
David Burdeny L'aiguille after Monet, Etretat, Normandy, France, 2017 Archival Pigment Print Signature Label Price for Print only. Ask us for framing opti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sea Scotland III
Located in New York City, NY
Bernhard Quade Sea Scotland III, 2009 Archival Pigment Print 49 x 75 cm on a 64 x 90 cm paper 20 x 30 inches on a 25 x 35 in paper Edition of 7 85 x 130 cm on a 105 x 150 cm pape...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Epecuen #5, Argentina
Located in New York City, NY
Daniel Mansur Epecuen #5, Argentina, 2017 40 x 60 inches 100 x 150cm 47 x 71 inches 120 x 180cm 60 x 88.5 inches 150 x 225 cm Edition of 6 copies overall Archival Pigment Prin...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Three Waves
Located in Miami, FL
A study in symmetry and balance as nature presents 3 perfectly spaced and similar waves. Signed dated lower right signed dated and numbered verso 3 /15, unframed, printed later , Pr...
Category

Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Ireland Donegal Sea
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 3 Signature Label, numbered and dated, mounted and framed.
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

San Francisco Vista
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. San Francisco Vista Signed and dated and numbered on the lower right, , Edition 4 of 15, Unframed, other size available
Category

2010s Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Colorful Boats, East Hampton
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, 3/15 numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, Hahnemuhle Baryta Fne Art Paper.
Category

2010s American Impressionist Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

The Lean
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
"The Lean" Archival Pigment photograph Edition of 10 Signed and Editioned by photographer
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Fusillier Flowers
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Vaucottes, March 2005 - Jem Southam (Color Photography)
Located in London, GB
Signed, dated and numbered on reverse Inkjet print 46 1/2 x 55 1/2 inches / 118 x 141 cm Edition of 6 + 2 APs Jem Southam (born 1950) is one of the most critically respected British...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Holding Light In Darkness #3
Located in Los Angeles, CA
THE COLOR OF WATER Lake Michigan blue sits at the pastel confluence of green, grey and cyan on the nearby shoreline. In truth, the color of the lake is as transitory as Chicago weather. The shade of blue is widely determined by the reflection of the sky above and the organic material and sediment carried below. I recently learned that invasive mussel species have slowly transformed the lake from green to bluer over the past two decades. I often return to the water’s edge to document the color of a given day. Susan Isaacson...
Category

2010s Abstract Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

Holding Light In Darkness #1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
THE COLOR OF WATER Lake Michigan blue sits at the pastel confluence of green, grey and cyan on the nearby shoreline. In truth, the color of the lake is as transitory as Chicago weather. The shade of blue is widely determined by the reflection of the sky above and the organic material and sediment carried below. I recently learned that invasive mussel species have slowly transformed the lake from green to bluer over the past two decades. I often return to the water’s edge to document the color of a given day. Susan Isaacson...
Category

2010s Abstract Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

Blue Falcon
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
1964 Ford Falcon with surfboards. Signed and numbered by photographer.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Mouth of the Okarito River and the Tasman Sea, New Zealand, Autumn 2018
Located in London, GB
The Mouth of the Okarito River and the Tasman Sea, New Zealand, Autumn 2018 Signed and inscribed with title and date on reverse Archival pigment print 35.5 x 25.75 inchess Edition of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Surfer at Golden Gate
Located in Miami, FL
A lone surfer contemplates San Francisco bay as a splashing white wave of water partially obscures his view. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15 Printed later, ...
Category

American Realist Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Blue Falcon
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
1964 Ford Falcon with surfboards.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Waimea Bay
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Waimea Bay, HI. Eddie Aikau Invitational.
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Red Zap 2
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Horizon Light
Located in Fairfield, CT
Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print

Red Bark 1
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Ganesh Chaturthi Festival, 1994
Located in Atlanta, GA
Steve McCurry is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo Afghan Girl, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographi...
Category

20th Century Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Clown Face
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Untitled
Located in Fairfield, CT
chromogenic print mounted on aluminum with UV ultra non-glare plexiglass
 editions of 10 available in: 
16 x 16 in. $4000 
20 x 20 in. $5000
 24 x 24 in. $6000
 30 x 30 in. $8000
 42...
Category

Early 2000s Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass

Losing Ground
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist. Sarah Hadley's narrative work focuses on memory, place and the subconscious. She received degrees from Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art. Hadley was named one of the “jeunes talents” by Le Monde in 2014. She has had solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Loyola Museum of Art, Richard Levy Gallery...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Libellevlucht Dragonfly Flight Photo on Dibond with UV Resitant Plexiglass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Libellevlucht Dragonfly Flight Photo on Dibond with UV Resitant Plexiglass Bethany de Forest Born in Stoneham, Massachusetts, 1966 - USA Graduated i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Photographic Paper

Rabarberbos Rhubarb Bush Pinhole Photo Dibond Aluminium UV Resistant Plexiglass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Rabarberbos Rhubarb Bush Pinhole Photo Dibond Aluminium UV Resistant Plexiglass Bethany de Forest Born in Stoneham, Massachusetts, 1966 - USA Grad...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Photographic Paper

Palm Pool
Located in Fairfield, CT
In this fast moving world, photographer Chris Leidy has found his inspiration within the depths of global oceans. Under water, Chris captures a vision – a flash in time – through his...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Pigment

Untitled
Located in Fairfield, CT
This Water series comes out of Schmidt's life long fascination with water and the color blue. Having grown up in Greece as the daughter of an archeologist, Schmidt spent 3 months ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print

Belanio, Skopelos, Greece
Located in Denton, TX
Museum Edition AP 1 Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Esteban Pastorino Diaz Photograph is light jet print mounted on dibond with acrylic facemount, wall mount on back. Printed 2...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

"Hoffman Island" a limited edition photograph from Hoffman Island, 2024
Located in New York, NY
18"x24" limited edition historic photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts a man-made island was built as a quarantine station to house immigrants arriving at Ellis Island wit...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

"Rat Island" a limited edition photograph from Rat Island, 2023
Located in New York, NY
18"x24" limited edition historic photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts an aerial view of the private Rat Island. In 2016, Alex Schibli (the Swiss owner) placed a statue Wi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

"Rat Island" Contemporary Photograph, from "Islands of New York" series
Located in New York, NY
30"x40" limited edition photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts Rat Island and is featured in the series, "Islands of New York". Emerald green waters surrounds this small island in New York. In 2016, Alex Schibli, the Swiss owner of this private island, placed a statue William Tell on the island (it is currently laying on its side waiting to be reinstalled upright). The statue is a reproduction of a monument located in Altdorf, Switzerland, that honors him as a freedom fighter. Phillip Buehler is a New York based photographer who documents the deterioration and remnants of neglected architecture constructed in the recent past. In the series “No Man is an Island...” Buehler has photographed the historic, and also often forgotten islands, around New York City. Some of them, like Ellis Island, loom large in their impact on history, culture and existence in the national identity. Others, like “Rat Island,” a privately-owned 2.5 acre islet north of The Bronx, with an unusual statue...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Floating Village
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 5 Signed, titled, dated and numbered on artist label on verso. Acrylic face mounting included. Esteban Pastorino Diaz is a South American photographer, born in 1972, in B...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Moderato
Located in PARIS, FR
Photographie disponible en deux formats : 45x90cm et 65x120cm Veuillez nous contacter si intéressé. Ce tirage fait partie de la série "Sacré Profane" C’est le cas de sa première émo...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Pigment

Le Matelas Rouge
Located in PARIS, FR
Photo prise par l'artiste lors d'un de ses voyages en Italie, dans un endroit iconique d'une petite ville sur la côte napolitaine.
Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Pigment

Clouds 16
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Clouds 13
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Clouds 11
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images. In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination. Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance. Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future. From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs. --- RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022. Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above. Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations. Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse. With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide. There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection. Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist. The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Clouds
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images. In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination. Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance. Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future. From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs. --- RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022. Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above. Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations. Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse. With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide. There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection. Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist. The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Clouds 2
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images. In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination. Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance. Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future. From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs. --- RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022. Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above. Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations. Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse. With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide. There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection. Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist. The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

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