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Asha Schechter
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Asha Schechter’s artistic practice is set within the context of a networked, commodity-centric culture—where a wholesale movement away from privileging the “source” or “original” is coded into every creative photographic gesture. In his brilliantly disorienting works, photographic motifs and 3-D renderings appear to hover and scatter across the picture plane, indicative of Schechter’s questioning of our contemporary image world from a position consciously within its default dynamics and aesthetics. "I am interested in the lifespan of images,” says the artist. “I am interested in how an image comes into being, what kind of work it does, how it ages, and when it stops being useful. I think of certain kinds of 3-D models as underemployed—the kinds of models that on first blush make sense, but after further scrutiny look off in one way or another. These images have made their way into the pictures, stickers, and videos I have been making—sometimes being put to sensible use, and sometimes floating in an indeterminate space, hoping that someday they might have something better to do.”
He has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles at The Finley and Metro PCS. His work has been presented in group exhibitions at Gavin Brown in New …
Asha Schechter’s artistic practice is set within the context of a networked, commodity-centric culture—where a wholesale movement away from privileging the “source” or “original” is coded into every creative photographic gesture. In his brilliantly disorienting works, photographic motifs and 3-D renderings appear to hover and scatter across the picture plane, indicative of Schechter’s questioning of our contemporary image world from a position consciously within its default dynamics and aesthetics. "I am interested in the lifespan of images,” says the artist. “I am interested in how an image comes into being, what kind of work it does, how it ages, and when it stops being useful. I think of certain kinds of 3-D models as underemployed—the kinds of models that on first blush make sense, but after further scrutiny look off in one way or another. These images have made their way into the pictures, stickers, and videos I have been making—sometimes being put to sensible use, and sometimes floating in an indeterminate space, hoping that someday they might have something better to do.”
He has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles at The Finley and Metro PCS. His work has been presented in group exhibitions at Gavin Brown in New York, M+B in Los Angeles, LA><ART in Los Angeles, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and Albert Baronian Gallery in Brussels, among others.
Courtesy of Aperture
Born 1978
Hometown Portland, OR
Lives and Works Los Angeles, CA
Education
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
BFA, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA, 2001
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