Tony Oursler

Cosmiconsanguinal . 2013

+ Tony Oursler . Albert Baronian Gallery

In the new exhibition Glare Schematics, Oursler begins a distinctively new series of work which exist on the wall as well as the floor, encompassing the notion of identity analysis made physical in poetic multimedia schematics. These works explore the idea of making visible private psychoanalytical and genealogical maps embodied in icons of one's past and present. Oursler suggest and interlocking chain of influences. These works suggest an interconnected chains of influences as nemonic images ranging from body parts, masks, stock mythological characters, serpents, demons, family portraits, abstract lights, and celestial bodies, all connected via metallic vectors which define the associative links. Oursler asks, "who are we at any given moment, and how did we become what we are?"
The resulting works of Glare Schematics are at once comical and dark, forming an aggregation of influences, experiences, phobias, emotions, desires, brain chemistry, and genetics.
Albert Baronian Gallery

Distant Relatives . 2013

White Light Genieology . 2013

Thrice Removed Blond . 2013