Will U B My FBF
The Facebook Project:
friends, sharing, and identity theft
Who is Roxanne, and why should we care? …While Facebook may tell us that Roxane is a girl with 315 friends, this exhibition exposes Roxane as a culture-jamming tool used to highlight the easily manipulated nature of online personae and communication. Society has been impacted by the duel between face-to-face interaction and virtual communication making Jeff Szuc’s works very relevant. [more...]
Animalia
Animalia Morti.
…and small portraits of apparent hunting trophies exhibited alongside large ‘hybrid’ paintings of a rabbit-woman and an elephant-man…. [more...]
The 5×7 Project
An illustration art book and exercise in over exposure. .
The 5”x7” format was chosen for its direct reference to the ‘snap shot’ photograph of the same dimensions.
Snap-shots exist to document and preserve the memories of events and periods in our lives. We view them as non-biased, honest records of a moment in time, in truth they are anything but that. Photography’s lie is its act of omission. We filter our photographs – we only photograph the celebrations, we only record the significant moments, we throw out the photos which don’t validate our own sense of self-image.
The Five by Seven paintings manage to side step some of the pitfalls of photography – they document the mundane, they’re not always the most flattering, yet they too are anything but honest. [more...]
Still Lives
Static images of depth, tranquility, and absurdity, the Still Lives Project has been an ongoing exploration of the complexity of emotion. The first works first showing was at the Walgner Rosebaulm Gallery for an exhibit titled ‘Still Lives’. The pieces have since been included in numerous group and solo shows in Canada and the United States. [more...]