Walead Beshty: 8 works

'Walead Beshty Born in London, UK, in 1976. He lives and works in Los Angeles, USA .'

'Walead Beshty Born in London, UK, in 1976.'

'Walead Beshty graduated with an MFA from the School of Art, Yale University, in 2002. He has since lectured, taught, and written extensively about contemporary art while exhibiting his own photographic and sculptural work internationally.'

'Beshty took up residence in Jalisco in 2013 to produce a three-tiered body of work that relates the ceramics factories of Mexico to a series of frescos in the Chapel of Hospicio Cabanas in Guadalajara, painted by Jose Clemente Orozco in 1938--1939.'

'He has since lectured, taught, and written extensively about contemporary art while exhibiting his own photographic and sculptural work internationally. Beshty is currently based in Los Angeles, where he is well-known for his large, abstract photograms and his sculptures of translucent glass and polished copper.'

'Beshty also produces work in a documentary style, in order to register the influence of political ideologies on the material world.'

'Beshty records sensitive physical phenomena with both images and objects, although he sees his sculptures as more entropic and mundane, allowing a work to crack and smudge in the process of being shipped, installed, and viewed in galleries and museums. He conceives such abstract works with a predetermined set of rules and then exposes them to the indeterminate conditions of production.'

'Beshty's Guadalajara Works (2013), on view at the Biennale di Venezia, is a sculptural series that explores the labor conditions of high-fired ceramics at a ceramic factory in the Jalisco region of Guadalajara, Mexico.'