Elad lassry biography of michael jackson
View Two Works: (i) Woman, Espresso Machine; (ii) Girl by Elad Lassry, sold at Contemporary Art Day Sale on London 15 October 2pm.
Lassry's films, to date, have been evocative of a structural concern, but they also reveal an awareness of the medium's troubled relationship with its history..
Elad Lassry
American artist (born 1977)
Elad Lassry (born December 26, 1977, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
Lassry attended the California Institute of the Arts for film and visual art.[1] He received his BFA from CalArts in 2003 and his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2007.[citation needed] At USC, his instructors included Sharon Lockhart and Frances Stark.[2]
Work
Lassry defines his practice as consumed with "pictures" — generic images culled from vintage picture magazines and film archives, redeploying them in a variety of media, including photography, film, drawing and sculpture.
Leaving little distance between the commercial and the analytical, he is sometimes described as a post-Pictures Generation artist.[3]
Photography
Starting with popular modes of production such as magazine advertising, he uses silk-screening and photography to revive