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Desiree Holman, Kent Manske, Geof Oppenheimer,
Ricardo Rivera & Schechter / Schimizu
Rivera's work suggests that there is no unified reality, rather, only a world known through the subject's senses. The artist writes,
"My apprehension of the objects in my perceptual world is always perspectival . . . I am perspectivally related to other real beings."
Drawing from the iconography and ethos of today's twentysomething generation weaned on pop culture, art duo
Schechter/Shimizu's conceptual photographic and video work voices both a love and ironic distance from the
references (1980's John Cusack flicks, Brittany Spears) they appropriate and invert. Through wry humor, Schechter/Shimizu's work carries a tone that is both earnest and at the same time always already nostalgic; seemingly devoid of critical judgement and at the same time elucidating the politics embedded within cultural memory.
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