Elad Lassry
American artist (born 1977)
Elad Lassry (Hebrew: אלעד לסרי; born December 26, 1977, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
Lassry attended the California Institute of the Arts for film and visual art. He received his BFA from CalArts in 2003 and his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2007. At USC, his instructors included Sharon Lockhart and Frances Stark.
Work
Lassry defines his practice as consumed with "pictures" — generic images culled from vintage picture magazines and film archives, redeploying them in a variety of media, including photography, film, drawing and sculpture. Leaving little distance between the commercial and the analytical, he is sometimes described as a post-Pictures Generation artist.
Photography
Starting with popular modes of production such as magazine advertising, he uses silk-screening and photography to revive iconic art-historical arrangements, such as the pairing of mother and child or the arrangement of fruit a conventional still life, disrupting their original harmony with geometric displacements or a palette of bright colours. His chromogenic color prints — still life compositions, photocollages, and studio portraits of friends and celebrities — never exceed the dimensions of a magazine page or spread (35 x 28 cm) and are displayed in frames that derive their colors from the dominant hues in the photographs. In certain black-and-white gelatin silver-prints the frames are silver.
Films
Lassry often displays his photographs beside 16mm film projections in a continuous loop on the wall.
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