Robert Cumming

-Robert Cumming is well known for his conceptual drawings and constructions. He will make a photograph of a still life and then draw it in the negative, photograph that drawing and then place them side by side as a diptych. Other works he has done focus on the way that a photograph can tell a lie. Some examples of this work are shown below.

Jan Dibbets

-Jan Dibbets is a Dutch conceptual artist who has done a lot of interesting works. He makes photographs that make an object appear 3D when it is not, and he did a series of circular windows where he would actually cut out the circular window from his photograph and mount them onto colored pieces of paper. One of my favorite series of works he did was when he pieced together 2 or more photographs on a slant, but worked together as a piece. Below are photos from each series.

Peter Fischli & David Vice

 -Fischli and Vice make work that centers around the idea of the equilibrium of a balancing act. The works are playful and they utilize the resources they have around them. It seems as if their artworks could fall apart at any moment. So great! 

Lars Tunbjork

-Tunbjork is an amazing photography who made photographs in offices all over the world. The thing I loved about his photographs is that he captures humorous moments and the absurdity that happens throughout these office spaces. I like his work so much because I usually try to capture strange humorous moments in my work as well, especially with what I have been working on with my family photographs lately. Here are a few of my favorites by Tunbjork below!

Daniel Gordon

-Daniel Gordon is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York. The work that I am most interested that he did was a series of photographs of himself flying. He made these works from 2001-2004 and they have sparked an idea in my head and inspired me for a project that I would like to do. Here is a link to see more of his work, but here are just a few of my favorites.
http://www.danielgordonstudio.com/projects/flying-pictures

Cornelia Konrads

-Above is a sculpture by Cornelia Konrads who is a German artist that did a lot of mind bending and gravity-defying installations that were sight specific. A lot of her installations also utilize the materials that were from that area. I have never seen anything like this work before and am so intrigued in the way that she makes an interaction between man and nature seem mind blowing and "other-worldly". Below are a couple more of my favorite installations by Konrads.

Erwin Wurm

-Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist born in 1954, who does a lot of really interesting sculptural works. His work is produced almost with no thought beforehand and are mostly about his depictions of everyday life. He thinks that it is very important for his works to provoke humor in them as well, which was something that really brought me into wanting to look at his work. For example, the piece I have selected below is called Idiot I.

 

-I have also attached a link to a short video about Erwin Wurm below!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3RW9pwJfI