Cortney Andrews
Left to Right - Yuka Otani, Talia Chetrit
Cortney Andrews Studio Visit Synopsis and Discussion Links.
During the Cortney Andrews’ studio visit on July 7th 2009 the group discussed her most recent body of photographs and a two channel video installation. This series of photographs included semi-narrative propositions focused on physiological and psychological tension as well as visual and optical disruption. The tension between the figures in the photos and their surroundings spurred discussion about the apparent difference in attitude within the domestic interiors and the landscape scenes in the series. The group also discussed ideas relating to scale, venue, surrogate surface, ambiguity in expression of emotion, desire, theatricality, and the duality of love and death.
-Amanda Lechner
Studio Visit and Discussion Links:
Yang Fudong, Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Andy Warhol – Blow Job
Francesca Woodman
Nan Goldin
Naomi Fisher
Hans Bellmer
Antonin Artaud
Catherine Deneuve
La petite mort
Eros
Thanatos
“Surrogate Surfaces” Bachelors by Rosalind Krauss
Studio Fuse Art Blog 
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-Dustin
Cortney Andrews Studio Visit Synopsis and Discussion Links.
During the Cortney Andrews’ studio visit on July 7th 2009 the group discussed her most recent body of photographs and a two channel video installation. This series of photographs included semi-narrative propositions focused on physiological and psychological tension as well as visual and optical disruption. The tension between the figures in the photos and their surroundings spurred discussion about the apparent difference in attitude within the domestic interiors and the landscape scenes in the series. The group also discussed ideas relating to scale, venue, surrogate surface, ambiguity in expression of emotion, desire, theatricality, and the duality of love and death.
Below are additional links relating to the studio visit and discussion.
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Yang Fudong, Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Andy Warhol – Blow Job
Francesca Woodman
Nan Goldin
Naomi Fisher
Hans Bellmer
Antonin Artaud
Catherine Deneuve
La petite mort
Eros
Thanatos
Surrogate Surfaces
-Amanda
Suggested Links not discussed during the visit
Thomas Demand Podcast @ The Hammer Museum discussing his work, and building sets/installations to achieve psychological atmospheres for photographs.
Nicole Morris
-Dustin
The subject of “surrogate surfaces” was discussed in relation to the settings where the figures are photographed. I came across this topic in an essay on Francesca Woodman in “Bachelors”, a book by Rosalind Krauss, in which she examines the work of 9 female artists’ explorations in surrealism from a feminist perspective.