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
$720
H 28 in W 20 in
industrial Brutalist Architecture, Geometric Building, Acrylic Painting on Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This beautiful painting by Nacho Reina is a formidable example of the interplay between form and color forms as the central axis of his work, where he starts from architectural shape...
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
$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
Art Deco watercolor by Dutch artist Leo Visser
Located in Colfax, CA
Art Deco watercolor on paper by renown Dutch artist, Leo Visser. This is rare opportunity to own a work by Visser whose work is almost exclusively held in the Rijksmuseum in the Neth...
Watercolor
$57,600Sale Price|20% Off
H 120.5 in W 85 in
Female and Male Figure, Flora, Adam and Eve In Blue and White by America Martin
By America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Adam and Eve In Blue and White" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 120 x 84 inches 120.5 x 85 inches framed ( 120.5 x 42.5 inches framed each) Signature is in the lower left o...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$1,000
H 20 in W 20 in D 1 in
Deja - Vu Original Acrylic Painting, Modern Nude, 20x20in, Signed
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“Deja - Vu” . Part of "Nude in Interior" series. Original painting. size 20x20in / 51x51cm . Acrylic on canvas. This is the second version of Nude in Armchair painted in a more fre...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,200
H 16 in W 20 in D 1 in
Irish House on Green II - Contemporary Impasto Landscape, Oil Painting
By Sandra Pratt
Located in Denver, CO
"Irish House on Green II," 2015 is a mixed media landscape painting by Sandra Pratt. The composition features a small white house with a dark roof positioned on a gentle hill. The ba...
Acrylic
$2,019
H 11.03 in W 8.55 in D 0.4 in
An original British 20th Century drawing by British illustrator Heath Robinson
By William Heath Robinson
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Heath Robinson (British, 1872-1944) 'The Friendly Dog' Signed 'W. Heath Robinson.' (lower right) Pen and ink on paper 11 X 8.1/2in. (28 X 21.7cm.) (excluding frame) 46 x 38cm. (18.1/4 x 15in. (including frame) Literature: 'Old Time Stories', Constable and Co. 1921, P. 143 William Heath Robinson was an artist and illustrator mainly associated with his gloriously complicated inventions for simple objectives. The name Heath Robinson has become commonplace in the English language as a result to describe anything mechanical that is eccentric, ridiculously complex and ingenious at the same time . Interestingly one of the automatic analysis machines built for Bletchley Park...
Paper, Ink, Pen
$22,500
H 9.88 in W 13.13 in
Flying Bird, 1967 by Mexican Master Rufino Tamayo (certificate included)
By Rufino Tamayo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rufino Tamayo Flying Bird, 1967 Colored crayon and graphite on paper Sheet dimensions: 9.87 x 13.12 inches Framed dimensions: 16.62 x 19.87 inches We're pleased to showcase Mexican ...
Paper, Crayon, Graphite
$1,750
H 23.75 in W 19.75 in D 0.75 in
Original 1940s Abstract Pen & Ink Drawing “The Chicken” by Edward Marecak
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
This striking original pen and ink drawing, titled “The Chicken”, was created by celebrated 20th-century American modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993) in the 1940s. A powerful exampl...
Paper, Ink
$939
H 1.19 in Dm 21.66 in
Large Round Male Profile Painting on ondo With Pink Pixel Floral Background
By Natasha Lelenco
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Large round male profile painting on wood tondo with pink pixel floral background inspired by Eastern European textile patterns. This sculptural wooden tondo belongs to the first gr...
Plywood, Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
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
$4,900
H 31.75 in W 23.63 in
"Two Elephants, " Ink Drawing on Paper initialed by Miguel Castro Lenero
By Miguel Castro Leñero
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Elephants" by Latin American artist Miguel-Castro Lenero is an ink drawing on handmade Amate paper. Executed in 1992, it is initialed lower right. 23 3/8" x 15 3/8" art 31 3/4" x 25 5/8" framed Miguel Castro Lenero is one of four brothers...
Ink, Handmade Paper