honorable mention
Matthew Dols united arab emirates
title
Gist
With the plethora of media, magazines, books, and the internet there is way too much information in the world to comprehend it all. I wanted to find a way to condense it all down to just give me the 'gist' of all the content. Therefore I made this series of artwork that is made by taking every page of a book or a magazine and overlapping them into a single image.
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entry description
'Gist'With the plethora of media, magazines, books, and the internet there is way too much information in the world to comprehend it all. I wanted to find a way to condense it all down to just give me the 'gist' of all the content. Therefore I made this series of artwork that is made by taking every page of a book or a magazine and overlapping them into a single image.
about the photographer
I am an Assistant Professor of New Media in the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University (Dubai and Abu Dhabi campuses). He has his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and Design. His artwork has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Crown Point Press, and the Auchenbach Collection, Palace of Fine Arts.back to gallery