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Tony Oursler: hopped(popped)

Edward Hopper House presents a new installation by
renowned multi-media artist Tony Oursler from October 26, 2013 through January 5, 2014.  Like Hopper, Oursler grew up in Nyack, NY and spent his childhood
exploring the landscape from which Hopper drew inspiration.  For this
installation, Oursler will create a series of interventions in the architecture
of Edward Hopper’s childhood home based on Hopper’s caricature drawings (see
information on Edward Hopper Caricatures
exhibition below).  These lesser-known

works portray a different side of Hopper in which he uses a more humorous and
improvisational approach. Oursler sees these works as a potential bridge
between the anarchic 1960s and 70s and the suburban landscape and somber
quietude of Hopper’s melancholia.



The series includes Oursler’s signature projections
on three-dimensional constructions, as well ashis endeavors with painting and digital space.  The works are shot in the landscapes around Nyack, NY, comprised in part of reenactments featuring friends and relatives in the Nyack area and focusing on personal anecdotes, such as the theft and return of a brass bed in the early 1970s when the Edward Hopper House was in disrepair. 

Oursler
played a crucial role in the development of
video art as a sculptural form.His work is in collections, and he has exhibited,
in major institutions throughout the world, including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the

Museum
of Modern Art, New York
; the Whitney
Museum of American Art
, New York;
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wash., DC; and the TateGallery, London.




This exhibition is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.







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