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BIOGRAPHY
“Anthony Goicolea (born 1971) is a New York-based fine art photographer, born in Atlanta, Georgia.
Goicolea's photographs frequently deal with issues of androgyny, homosexuality, and child sexuality. Goicolea, Cuban-American and gay, was educated at the University of Georgia and studied painting, photography, and sculpture at that institution. He holds an MFA in fine arts from the Pratt Institute. He made his debut in 1999, and now shows work with Postmasters gallery in New York and Aurel Scheibler in Berlin, Germany.
In 2005, he received the BMW-Award for Photography.
Some of his work features photographs of "pre- to barely pubescent boys" (Art in America, Dec, 2001) in elaborately staged tableau settings, commonly showing multiple boys wearing traditional private school uniforms either engaged in school-life or recreation after school — but with often transgressive and erotic twists in their activities. Of great interest in these compositions is the fact that Goicolea himself portrays all of the boys in his photographs through the astute use of costumes, wigs, make-up, and post-production editing via the software Adobe Photoshop; "always looking uncannily like a boy on the edge of puberty" (The Advocate, August 14, 2001). Therefore, despite having numerous figures in them, Goicolea's photographs are actually very complex large-scale self-portraits, and are always done in a flawlessly realist manner.
The pioneering fine-art photographer Cindy Sherman is an apparent influence on Goicolea's work, given her own extensive use of self-portraits and emphasis on sexually-charged narrative topics. Sherman and Goicolea have also had several joint exhibitions. His work can be strongly compared to similar manipulated and/or staged art photography featuring children and adolescents, such as that of Bernard Faucon, Loretta Lux, and Justine Kurland.
Recently, Goicolea has also been producing and exhibiting his drawings, which follow much of the same subject matter as his photographs. He has also published several books.”
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ARTIST REVIEW
New York Times 2007
QUOTES
“Anthony Goicolea has ranged widely among photography, painting, installation and video in the 10 years he has been exhibiting, but one connecting thread has been his inclination to fantasy.”
“Seemingly based on a variety of formally posed, individual black-and-white photographs, the composite image, rendered in acrylic, graphite and spray paint on Mylar, runs across three panels, such that fragments of some of the figures are repeated from one to the next.”
Falconer, Morgan. "Anthony Goicolea." Art in America Magazine. Art in America, 3
Dec. 2009. Web. 11 Mar. 2011. <http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/
reviews/anthony-goicolea/>.
Anthony Goicolea's self portraiture and installation work intrigues me. His portraits are honest, odd, and sometimes uncomfortable to look at. They show movement and an accurate portrayal of an event, whether that be an actual event or a fantasized one. I enjoy his installation work that includes parts of the video in the installation. I will be using both of those aspects of his work to further my work.
All pictures are from the artist's homepage
Bed Bug
1999
20x20 Black and White Photograph
Stare Case
1998
20x20 Ciba-Chrome
Kidnap Video Installation
2005
Tea Party Video Installation
2005
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