Inside Out: Ryan Oskin and Kate Stone
March 29 – May 5, 2019

Ryan Oskin and Kate Stone both take on the idea that all images are constructions in as direct a way as one can, by taking photos of constructions—objects, buildings and interiors—and affixing the photographs onto objects that reference what they capture in their pictures. This doubling of representation suggests that the subject matter being photographed is somehow less real than the physical objects the artists have created. Their collapsing of the two-dimensional world of photography into the three-dimensional world of sculpture is part of our very contemporary practice of obliterating genre.

What makes Oskin and Stone compelling artists isn’t the process by which they make art, or how that process reflects their attitudes towards their media. Rather, it is what their images say about them and the world around them. Oskin’s work has always involved the formal appreciation of found objects and textures of construction sites. His work for this show applies his interest in the vernacular of construction sites to comment on the rapid overdevelopment of New York City’s real estate market and allude to his personal relationship with the places in his work. Stone’s work has focused on her somber and personal relationship to interiors, spaces that are empty, lived in, dismantled and then often recreated into a loving portrayal of memory. This work continues in the recent stop-motion videos at the center of her work in this show, in which the supernatural becomes a stand-in for the constant state of tension and uncertainty that world events have brought to our personal lives and private spaces.

Artifact, 2017-2018
UV curable ink on aluminum with wood platform
72 x 24 x 24 inches

Freedom, 2018
UV curable ink on coroplast, plexiglass, and sintra on wood shelf
29 x 24 x 3 inches

Complex, 2018
UV curable ink on coroplast and aluminum dibond
36 x 24 x 1 inches

Ground Floor, 2019
UV curable ink on coroplast and sintra
30 x 19.25 x 1 inches

Ground Floor, 2019
UV curable ink on coroplast and sintra
30 x 19.25 x 1 inches

Ground Floor, 2019
UV curable ink on coroplast and sintra
30 x 19.25 x 1 inches