JASON FOSCO | il deserto rosso

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Jason Fosco "il deserto rosso #"

Jason Fosco "il deserto rosso #"2, 2011 C- Print 30 x 44”

JASON FOSCO | il deserto rosso

January 28 through February 25, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 28, 2-5pm  

The Paul Kuhn Gallery is pleased to present recent photographs by American born artist, Jason Fosco. Influenced by Ed Ruscha’s early photo series, notably, twenty-six gasoline stations and images of Sunset Strip, Fosco is inspired by the idea of a repetitive theme recurring in multiple images.

Fosco’s previous work focused on women, randomly shot on the streets of New York, one a day for a year.   While each photograph can be viewed separately, the compilation of images gains strength as a totality reflecting the full spectrum of beauty captured in different ages, ethnicity and style.

Similarly, in his new work, Fosco focuses on images of a plastic red pipe used in construction sites/zones to protect electrical wiring.  Shot with a point and click t4 Yashica camera, the artist was initially attracted to the pipe as an eyesore – the anonymous and bland element of a red pipe as a graphic element that dissects, punctuates,  and meanders through  urban and rural  environments.  As in Ruscha’s gas stations, Fosco’s revisiting of this central motif bestows a significance  and dignity to his photographs beyond the image of banal street piping.

The artist will be present at the opening reception.