Category Archives: Uncategorized

Paradis, 2010 Epson print, 5 parts Roe Ethridge’s photographs have always had a sense of allure for the viewer, enticing the eye into their subverted layers and subtle misalignments, demanding a second, and if not a third look. He proudly declares: “When I am shooting, I start with an intention”[1], fully aware that his hallmark […]

Left: República de Cuba, 2012 Right: Puño de tigre, 2010 Juan Carlos Alom was born in Cuba in 1964, studying photography at the Semiotica del Entorno Cubano at the Institute of International Journalism, in Havana. Alom started his career working as a photojournalist for the Cuban Press in 1985, which led him to experiment with the photographic medium while studying […]

Wilhelm Sasnal’s approach to painting is traditional and formal, yet he enjoys subverting the subject matter by often borrowing subjects from art history, 20th century propaganda, and photojournalism. Usually with dark undertones, Sasnal renders pop-like figures, where authoritarianism and violence are reconstituted as retro cool. Such is the case in Adrastus Collection’s recent acquisition Untitled […]

With a keen eye in turning common subjects into objects with a stylized aesthetic, the American artist, Roe Ethridge reroutes his subject matter and inserts it into an odd spatial environment. This sense of oddity is a collective experience for many of his images; taking Coke bottles, fashion models and seashells and implanting an incongruous […]

Dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographic and video documents in the public realm, the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world, Raad’s work is informed by his upbringing in Lebanon during the civil war (1975–91), and by the socioeconomic and military […]