The Connor Brothers

Alcoholism

2023

F*ck It By The Connor Brothers The Connor Brothers are a contemporary British art duo known for blending fiction with reality, often creating works that mix vintage imagery with wi...

I Drink Therefore I Can By The Connor Brothers The Connor Brothers are a contemporary British art duo known for blending fiction with reality, often creating works that mix vintage...

"Ship" By Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter, a German contemporary artist, is celebrated for his diverse and innovative approach to painting, spanning photorealism, abstraction, and ...

Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #3: Canada Dry, Foil-Stamped Print, 2011 Foil-stamped print, on heavy wove paper, folded. As new condition, never f...

Mixed media, archival pigment and silkscreen on deckle-edged satin paper 101.6 × 67.3 cm Edition of 195 hand-signed and numbered by the artist James McQueen, born in 1977, is a Brit...

Ed Ruscha Actual Size (Spam), 2024 UV pigment print with yellow silkscreen details and a matte varnish seal, printed on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White paper. Individually nu...

Reviewing the photographs of Julie Blackmon, critic Leah Ollman of the Los Angeles Times wrote: “Each frame is an absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slice of ethnographic theater … that abounds with tender humor but also shrewdly subtle satire.” Blackmon is a native of Springfield, MO, and her photographs are inspired by her experience of growing up the oldest of nine children—including five sisters—in what she calls “a generic American town in the middle of the U.S.” In college, Blackmon was introduced to the work of artists Sally Mann, Diane Arbus, and Helen Levitt, and she describes herself as “obsessed” with their images. “When my three children were small,” she recalls, “we moved into an old house with a darkroom in the basement. Like any mother, I wanted to take pictures of my kids. But I didn’t want to be just the ‘mother photographer.’ I wanted my work to be more: more penetrating, more artful, more striking, more thoughtful, more a reflection of the times. “Over the next few years, I progressed from making documentary black and white photographs of my life and the lives of my sisters to creating colorful, fictitious images that offered a more fantastical look at everyday life. My work became more conceptual, as I began to realize that I was not obligated to capture “reality” exactly, but that I could work more like a painter or a filmmaker, actively shaping the images I was creating. This realization—that fiction can often capture the truth more memorably than reality—was a major shift in how I saw the world around me, and it transformed my work.” “It’s thrilling to see the most common aspects of everyday life as potential stories or themes for a photograph. It changes how you see things: suddenly, a Starbucks employee on a smoke break, or an outmoded beauty shop catering to an elderly clientele, can spark a memorable image. As Nora Ephron...

Slide by Julie Blackmon is from an ongoing series titled Home Grown According to the Los Angeles Times, Blackmon's images are “absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slices of ethnogr...