- Tony Oursler
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name = Tony Oursler
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birthdate = 1957
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nationality = American
field =video art , performance andinstallation art
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awards = 'Tony Oursler' (American, born 1957). Oursler is known for video, performance and installation art. He is married to the abstract painterJacqueline Humphries [http://jacquelinehumphries.net/] . He's part of the rock group, Poetics, with fellow CalArt students Mike Kelley andJohn Miller . He has collaborated with Constance DeJong, Tony Conrad, and Dan Graham and Sonic Youth.Oursler is best known for his sculptural video installations where faces are projected onto ball-like screens to present faces that talk, scream, watch and engage their audience in the gallery.Frequently combining spoken text, moving image and sculptural object, Oursler’s works seem like animate effigies in their own psychological space, often appearing to interact directly with, or confront, the viewer. Signature works have been his talking lights, such as Streetlight (1997), his series of video sculptures of eyes with television screens reflected in the pupils, and ominous talking heads such as Composite Still Life (1999). An installation called Optics (1999) examines the polarity between dark and light in the history of the camera obscura. Oursler creates installations that consistently disturb and fascinate to great popular and critical acclaim.
Genealogy
Son of Fulton Jr. and Noel Oursler, Grandson of writers:Fulton Oursler:The Greatest Story Ever Told (1949) ... (Writer)Boomerang! (1947) ... (Writer)The Spider (1945) ... (Writer)The Panther's Claw (1942) ... (Writer)The President's Mystery (1936) ... (Writer)Second Wife (1936) ... (Writer)The Circus Queen Murder (1933) ... (Writer)The Great Jasper (1933) ... (Writer)Night Club Lady (1932) ... (Writer)The Spider (1931) ... (Writer)
Grace Perkins(The Social Register (1934) (additional dialogue)Torch Singer (1933) (story "Mike") ... aka Broadway SingerAir Hostess (1933) (story) (as Dora Macy)No More Orchids (1932) (novel)Personal Maid (1931) (novel)Night Nurse (1931) (novel) (as Dora Macy)My Past (1931) (novel Ex-Mistress) (uncredited) ... aka Ex-Mistress and .
Galleries
Metro Pictures, NYC (see official website) [http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com/oursler_tony.html Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA]
Film and Video
see videos Electronic Arts Intermix [http://www.eai.org/eai/index.jsp]
* “Tony Oursler Video Projections” by Tony Oursler, Inner-Tube Videos. 2002, 27 minutes, Color. NY: Inner-Tube Videos.External links
* [http://www.tonyoursler.com/ Tony Oursler - Official website]
* [http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/tony-oursler/#/artists/tony-oursler/ Lehmann Maupin: Tony Oursler]
* [http://www.metropicturesgallery.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=14 Metro Pictures: Tony Oursler]
* [http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/tony-oursler/ Lisson Gallery: Tony Oursler]
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?OURSLERT Tony Oursler] in the [http://www.vdb.org/ Video Data Bank]
* [http://www.mensvogue.com/arts/articles/2008/02/oursler "Men's Vogue" article on Tony Oursler]
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