Elad Lassry (1977)
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is an Israeli-American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.
Lassry defines his practice as consumed with "pictures" — generic images culled from vintage picture magazines and film archives, redeploying them in a variety of media, including photography, film, drawing and sculpture. Leaving little distance between the commercial and the analytical, he is sometimes described as a post-Pictures Generation artist.
Starting with popular modes of production such as magazine advertising, he uses silk-screening and photography to revive iconic art-historical arrangements, such as the pairing of mother and child or the arrangement of fruit a conventional still life, disrupting their original harmony with geometric displacements or a palette of bright colours. His chromogenic color prints — still life compositions, photocollages, and studio portraits of friends and celebrities — never exceed the dimensions of a magazine page or spread (35 x 28 cm) and are displayed in frames that derive their colors from the dominant hues in the photographs.
| Date and place of birt: | 26 december 1977, Tel Aviv - Jaffa, Israel |
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| Nationality: | Israel, USA |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Photographer |
| Genre: | Performance art, Portrait, Still life |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
