Josh Azzarella

Josh Azzarella (born 1978, Ohio) is an artist based in New York, New York. He is represented by Mark Moore Gallery in Culver City.

Josh Azzarella
Born1978
Akron, Ohio, US
NationalityAmerican
Education2004, MFA, Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University
Known forPhotography, Video Art
Awards2006, Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, US

Education

BFA, Myers School of Art, The University of Akron
MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University

Photography

Azzarella's work reflects on pivotal moments in history such as the torture of Iraqi POWs in Abu Ghraib and the protest of a single man in Tienanmen Square against a column of tanks. Azzarella reworks these canonical images to omit the tragic, negative, or most disturbing aspect of these images. For example, a photograph of a smiling Lynndie England pointing to a prisoner forced to masturbate is altered to only contain the smiling soldier.[1] His photographs muddy the waters between the artificial beauty of a cinematic set and the inherent beauty of the natural landscape. Absent their most significant events, Azzarella’s images raise questions about how our society constructs a narrative of our collective history.

Video

In 2011 Azzarella released Untitled #125 (Hickory), one of the longest running experimental films at 120 hours. Untitled #125 (Hickory) is an art work created between 2009–2011. The work is based upon the 6 minute and 30 second section in the film The Wizard of Oz, from the moment the viewer sees the tornado until Dorothy meets Glinda the Good Witch. This work extends a moment of transformative transition (Dorothy's journey to Oz) to envelop what the artist believes is the entire time of her experience.

The parenthetical reference refers to a deleted scene from the film where the farmhand, Hickory, is working on a machine to ward off tornados.

Museum exhibitions
gollark: The rail thing isn't actually widely deployed since there are also unlimited `/home` locations.
gollark: I tend to play on lightly modded servers, so we have things like nether iceways and my automatically routed rail network there.
gollark: They're not deliberately making a weird pricing structure. The tokens are just a way to compact the input before it goes into the model. These things are often (partly) based on "transformers", which operate on a sequence of discrete tokens as input/output, and for which time/space complexity scales quadratically with input length. So they can't just give the thing bytes directly or something like that. And for various reasons it wouldn't make sense to give it entire words as inputs. The compromise is to break text into short tokens, which *on average* map to a certain number of words.
gollark: (not in the SCP universe, but in general, I mean)
gollark: I think that's been done a lot already. I liked https://qntm.org/ra, which is basically that.

References
  1. http://modernartobsession.blogs.com/modern_art_obsession/2008/03/artist-intervie.html
  • FOX News.com – New York Museum Cancels Terror Exhibition After Controversy
  • The Brooklyn Rail – Josh Azzarella and Fresh Kills
  • The New Yorker – Short List
  • Interview with the Artist
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