Elad Lassry was born in Tel Aviv in 1977. He earned a BFA in art and film/video from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, in 2003, and an MFA from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2007. Lassry positions his photographic works as “pictures,” entities that operate simultaneously as both objects and images. In doing so, he shifts their relationship to the viewer, inviting a broader examination of how photographs are seen and understood. Lassry regularly presents his photographs in lacquered frames that match the colors of his bright, saturated images, or in warm walnut frames in the case of his work in black and white. The artist used this approach as early as 2008, in works such as Wolf (Blue) (2008). The continuity between frame and photo, heightened by the absence of matting, highlights the physicality of the picture without disrupting the illusion of depth in the photographic image. Lassry’s pictures derive from his own studio-based photographs as well as appropriated imagery. In both cases, the images reference the language of advertising and stock photography—and the attendant notions of desire therein. However, the would-be product is either obscured or excluded, removing the sense of purpose that drives such imagery. The artist sometimes employs techniques such as double exposure, blurring, superimposition, or collage that create an unsettling instability within his pictures. In more recent works, Lassry has incorporated sculptural elements, most often silk valances that cover significant sections of the image, as in Untitled (Woman, Blond) (2013), or looping colored wires that penetrate it, as in Untitled (Dolphins, Two) (2014). The artist has also produced films—initially focused on ballet dancers—that explore issues of subjectivity and perception, collapsing figure and ground in a flattening of pictorial space. Lassry has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute... [https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/elad-lassry] undefined

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