Tony Oursler is best known for his innovative integration of video, sculpture, and performance into his art.
While studying at the California Institute of Arts, Oursler was influenced by John Baldessari, who taught him, Mike Kelley, John Miller, and Jim Shaw the importance of the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language.
A pioneering figure in new media since the 1970s, Oursler has since explored diverse methods of incorporating video into his practice, breaking video art out of the two-dimensional screen to create moving three-dimensional environments with the use of projections. At the center of Oursler’s practice is a persisting preoccupation with technology and its effect on humanity, and in his immersive installations he presents a dissonance of moving image and sound that seeks to disorient and disarm viewers. His videos often take as their subject the human face, fragmenting and distorting its physiognomy, and thus the legibility of expression, by projecting it onto inanimate objects or embedding it into his sculptures. With these video-sculptures Oursler explores the role that the rapid growth of technology plays in altering, and often inhibiting, human social behavior.
Oursler’s work is in numerous public and private collections such as the Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; and more.
In 2000, Oursler was awarded the U.S. Art Critics Association ICA New Media Award.
Find original Tony Oursler mixed media works and other art on 1stDibs.
Crab (with traveling Museum Exhibition documentation)
By Tony Oursler
Located in New York, NY
Tony Oursler Crab (With Museum Exhibition Labels), 1972 Colored pencil on paper Bears what appears to be the artists signature (or original notation)...
Color Pencil
Contemporary American Original Painting Tony Oursler "Horse Sense" 2018
By Tony Oursler
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic and collage painting by American contemporary artist Tony Oursler titled "Horse Sense". This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and came directly from...
Acrylic
$3,350
H 48 in W 48 in D 1 in
Echoes of Identity - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Figuration, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist The...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,750
H 31.5 in W 47 in
"Fellucas II" Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fellucas II" Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by Mohamed Hussein Born 1989, Mohamed Hussein is a Fayoum native whose semi-abstract landscape and urban vistas are captured with a cultured ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$30,000
H 55.12 in W 51.19 in D 1.19 in
Large Colourful Exotic Impressionistic Figurative Painting "Feu de Paille"
By Claire Denarie-Soffietti
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique, large scale figurative painting with a vivid, exotic, leafy background. The painting style shows influences from the post-impressionists, yet is undeniably contemporary, wi...
Canvas, Varnish, Wax, Oil, Acrylic
$1,280Sale Price|33% Off
H 27 in W 14 in D 2 in
'Where Hummingbirds Swim, ' by Lisa Miceli, Watercolor on Paper Painting
By Lisa Miceli
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 27" x 14" watercolor on paper by artist Lisa Miceli depicts the abstracted movement of birds, figures, and aquatic imagery that the artist uses...
Watercolor, Paper
$27,574Sale Price|20% Off
H 41 in W 53 in D 1.75 in
Painting of Times Square Manhattan New York City by Contemporary British Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Times Square Manhattan New York City by Contemporary British Artist Angela Wakefield. Art measures 48 x 36 inches Frame measures 53 x 41 inches Wakefield's work is a...
Canvas, Gesso, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$27,574Sale Price|20% Off
H 30 in W 40 in D 1.75 in
Times Square New York City Reflections after the Rain by British Urban Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Times Square New York City Reflections after the Rain by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Entitled “November Rain”, this unique origi...
Gesso, Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas, Paint, Linen, Canvas
$27,658Sale Price|20% Off
H 48 in W 36 in D 2 in
Manhattan Henge New York City Dramatic Sunset by British Urban Landscape Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Manhattan Henge New York City Dramatic Sunset by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Painted using strong blue, red and yellow primary colours, this striking original f...
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$9,488Sale Price|72% Off
H 36 in W 48 in D 1.75 in
Large Landscape Painting of Hudson River, New York State, USA by British Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Large Landscape Painting of the Hudson River, New York State, USA by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 48 x 36 inches Wakefield's work is a unique blend ...
Gesso, Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas, Paint, Linen, Canvas
TWO BIRDS
By Morris Graves
Located in Portland, ME
Graves, Morris (American 1910-2001). TWO BIRDS. Brown Ink on tan paper, not dated. Although signed in pencil, lower right, the signature proved fugitive dur...
Pencil
$2,350
H 31 in W 31 in D 1 in
I Have a Dream - 21st Century. Contemporary, Figurative Modern, Africa, Football
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$1,600
H 7.5 in W 10 in
Post Soviet Nonconformist Avant Garde Russian Israeli Gouache Painting Grobman
By Michail Grobman
Located in Surfside, FL
Michail Gorbman, Russian Born 1939. Watercolor on Green Paper, Black Fish with Yellow Dots. Hand signed Upper Left, Dated 1964. Signed verso and Described. Dimensions: 10 X 7.25 i...
Paper, Watercolor
$4,800
H 31.5 in W 27.56 in D 1.19 in
The silent fabric Figurative Painting, 80x70 cm, New
Located in New York, NY
A richly textured red cloth hangs against a dark, cracked wall, its folds cascading in soft, elegant waves. The fabric seems to glow with warmth, as if capturing light within its pat...
Canvas, Acrylic