Oliver Herring

Oliver Herring Patrick (2004)
digital C-print photographs, museum board, foam core and polystrene, 51″ x 37″ x 37″ with vitrine

Oliver Herring Gloria (2004)
digital C-print photographs, museum board, foam core and polystyrene, 72″ x 40″ x 40″ with vitrine

Oliver Herring continues his fascination with play and the figure in a terrific installation at Max Protetch. There’s an amusing video which turns large earthmoving machinery into dancing Tonka toys, a wall-size installation composed of the intersecting lines of two separate photo narratives, a couple of large, luscious male portrait photographs, a topographically-described photo representsation of a languorous youth (and his snake), a limited-edition newspaper documenting the mud-wrestling performance of two brothers and, the show’s centerpiece, both figuratively and creatively, two life-size portrait sculptures sheathed in bits cut from thousands of separate photographs.
Instant personal favorites: Gloria’s beautiful hips and Patrick’s underarm hair.