Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Tony Oursler is best known for his innovative integration of video, sculpture, and performance into his art.
While studying at the California Institute of Arts, Oursler was influenced by John Baldessari, who taught him, Mike Kelley, John Miller, and Jim Shaw the importance of the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language.
A pioneering figure in new media since the 1970s, Oursler has since explored diverse methods of incorporating video into his practice, breaking video art out of the two-dimensional screen to create moving three-dimensional environments with the use of projections. At the center of Oursler’s practice is a persisting preoccupation with technology and its effect on humanity, and in his immersive installations he presents a dissonance of moving image and sound that seeks to disorient and disarm viewers. His videos often take as their subject the human face, fragmenting and distorting its physiognomy, and thus the legibility of expression, by projecting it onto inanimate objects or embedding it into his sculptures. With these video-sculptures Oursler explores the role that the rapid growth of technology plays in altering, and often inhibiting, human social behavior.
Oursler’s work is in numerous public and private collections such as the Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; and more.
In 2000, Oursler was awarded the U.S. Art Critics Association ICA New Media Award.
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1970s Contemporary Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Color Pencil
Mid-20th Century American Modern Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
1980s Modern Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Archival Paper
Mid-20th Century Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil
1990s Abstract Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Oil Pastel
1940s Surrealist Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pencil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
India Ink, Handmade Paper
Early 2000s Contemporary Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
20th Century Modern Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1960s Minimalist Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Crayon, Graphite
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite, Paper
1990s Contemporary Tony Oursler Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Handmade Paper


