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Tony Oursler Art

American, b. 1957

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.

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Artist: Tony Oursler
Contemporary American Original Painting Tony Oursler "Horse Sense" 2018
Contemporary American Original Painting Tony Oursler "Horse Sense" 2018

Contemporary American Original Painting Tony Oursler "Horse Sense" 2018

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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...

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