Los Angeles-based artist and writer Walead Beshty (born 1976) started his Industrial Portraits series in 2008. He realizes them wherever he goes, asking all the art people he works with to pose in their working environment and working clothes: studio assistants, gallery staff, curators, lab technicians, critics, fellow artists, collectors, art handlers and even the -machines, - which contribute to an artwork's progress from studio to gallery and beyond. Captioned first as -framer, - -Fedex courier- or -darkroom assistant- and then identified with their initials and the location and...
Los Angeles-based artist and writer Walead Beshty (born 1976) started his Industrial Portraits series in 2008. He realizes them wherever he goe...
Walead Beshty's (b. London, 1976; lives and works in Los Angeles) oeuvre spans photographic works, sculpture, painting, installation, and video. "Procedurals" offers an overview of Beshty's works from the last four years. With a conversation between the artist and Seth Kelly, Janine Latham, John Ryan Moore, Jane Park, Friedrich Petzel, and Bryne Rasmussen-Smith.
Walead Beshty's (b. London, 1976; lives and works in Los Angeles) oeuvre spans photographic works, sculpture, painting, installation, and video. "Proc...