Lucas Blalock’s artistic practice is as much photography as it is sculptural installation.  His work sheds a new light on the mundane and makes the ordinary uncanny.  His saturated and richly textured photographs are neatly ordered but abstracted.  Seeped in meaning but obscured, human-like but just beyond the viewer’s grasp, these still lives are at […]

Have you ever been tempted to raid a 99 cent store? Quentin Shih who is based in New York and China transformed the mundane and mass-produced objects found in 99 cent shops into still-life studies of modern life bathing in a pastel palette.  Cropping the objects in a circular frame, plastic straws and sand toys that still […]

From his book Blown, a collection of photographs six years in the making, Christopher Griffith transforms the mangled debris of discarded tires and transforms them into magnificent still-lifes.     Why did you decide to pursue your practice on the East Coast?  I am the son of a British father.  We immigrated to the East […]

The landscape of Los Angeles serves as an ongoing source of inspiration for Gregg Segal.  In the series the Cost of Living, signage bearing a person’s annual income is juxtaposed with their hands.  Running the gamut from plastic surgeons to day laborers, Segal points out the absurdity of what is valued most in our culture.   […]

Based in Los Angeles, Bartholomew Cooke stands out from the other 20+20 contributors because he works exclusively with product.  Through careful manipulation and great attention to detail, Cooke transforms lifeless static objects into 3-Dimensional objects that jump off the page.     Why did you decide to pursue your practice on the West Coast? I […]

Richard Gilles finds inspiration in abandoned and neglected spaces- motor homes left in large fields, gigantic highway infrastructures and blank billboards.   Photographs selected from the series Signs of the Times and Almost Home-Less featured at DNJ Gallery present panoramic photographs of blank billboards littered along double-decker highways and sprawling desert vistas.  The billboards are […]