Saturday, July 11, 2009

Artist You should Know 6

This will be a short one.

Charlie White, born 1972

BFA School of Visual Arts, NY

MFA Art Center College of Design, CA

Currently Director of MFA Program, Roski School of Fine Arts, University of South California (Citation needed) ......I think


This dude is a Los Angeles based photographer who to me, takes the sketchy parts of modern society, and makes these weird narrative photographs using fiction and the grosteque. The end result, eerie ass photographs exploiting the perversions of man using ugly people and humanoid puppets... Of course this (as always) is my opinion on things. I would love to hear other people's opinions. Here are a couple of examples of his work, however I must warn all that these are "Not Safe For Work" ....at all.

From The Series "Understanding Joshua"