Paul Sepuya
Paul Mpagi Sepuya | |
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Born |
1984 San Bernardino, California |
Education |
University of California Los Angeles MFA New York University, Tisch School of the Arts BFA |
Known for | Portraiture |
Movement | Contemporary Studio Portraiture |
Paul Mpagi Sepuya (born 1982 in San Bernardino, California) is a Brooklyn-based, American photographer and artist. His photographs focus heavily on the relationship between artist and subject, often exploring the nude and the relationship and intimacy of studio photography. Curator and critic Hilton Als, associated Sepuya philosophically and spiritually as one of writer, James Baldwin's "living children."[1]
Work
Sepuya's series Studio Work (2010–11) continues the development of his sustained interest in portraiture and the intimacy developed between the sitter and the photographer in the controlled environment of the studio. The range and breadth of his work examines not only the personality and character of the portrait but the private performance that exists within the photographic studio. “My studio was private, but not a closed environment. Rather, it was a stage that I inhabited and opened to those around me,” he says in reflecting on the production of the studio environment and those invited to have their portraits made. He draws inspiration for his contemporary investigations of studio photography from the works of Robert Mapplethorpe and art historian and critic Brian O'Doherty who's publication "Studio and Cube:On the relationship between where art is made and where art is displayed"[2] both feature prominently in his early work.
Since 2004, Sepuya has shot editorial features for I.D. (magazine), Kaiserin Magazine, and BUTT Magazine. His evolving collection of the self-published periodical 'SHOOT' has been sold internationally since its inception in 2005,[3]
Sepuya is represented by Document, Chicago; Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.
See also
External links
- Paul Mpagi Sepuya - Official site
References
- ↑ Als, Hilton. "James Baldwin/Jim Brown and the Children".
- ↑ O'Doherty, Brian (2007). Studio and Cube. New York City: Princeton Architectural Press. p. 40. ISBN 9781883584443.
- ↑ SHOOT Magazine