Sunday Artist 9/14

Justine Kurland I enjoy Kurland's earlier work more than I like her recent stuff, but I still think she is a talented artist. Her work portrays a certain voyeurism, forcing the viewer to feel uncomfortable in their own minds and in their own settings. Most of her work features seemingly displaced people, in almost endearing poses. There also seems to be talk of identity, or lack thereof, within each piece. The pieces (At least at the size they are in books and on websites) only allow for the people to take up a small portion of the print, making them hard to identify by specific traits, only identifiable by broad characteristics (i.e, white, female, young, etc.). And again, there is the question of truthfulness: is this an authentic scene? Of course not. I seem to be finding artists that don't believe in websites, but Kurland is represented by the Museum of Contemporary Photography and Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Below are her pages on those sites, along with some articles about her. http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/kurland_justine.php http://www.miandn.com/#/artists/justinekurland/ http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2008/06/justine_kurland_1.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/arts/design/25kino.html?_r=1&oref=slogin