Oliver Herring was born in 1964 in Heidelberg, Germany. Herring received his BFA from the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Herring then went on to receive his MFA from Hunter College in New York. Herring now resides and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Some of Herring's early works pay tribute to his close friend Ethyl Eichelberger, a drag performance artist who commited suicide in 1991. The ethereal sculptures he produced bring forth introspection, memory and mortality. The woven sculptures were created by knitting together pieces of Mylar into clothing, furniture and human figures.
After his sculpture pieces Herring moved on to making stop and go action videos. The materials he uses for his sets are recylced from one piece to the next. Herring's videos are very dreamlike and make you wonder if you are in the conscious world or the unconscious. The ending of his videos are always unpredictable and unexpected and always keeping the observer wondering what is next.
Herring's most recent work is that of making human like and life sized sculptures. He photgraphs a real life model from every possible angle over and over, he then takes the photo's and cuts them up and attaches them to the base of his sculpture; which is always in the same pose as the real life posed model. The cut pieces of the photographs becomes the sculpture. From a distance the human like sculptures look very real but as you get closer you can see all the seperate pieces that make up the sculpture as a whole.
Oliver Herring is a young artist with a considerable amount of need to experiment with many different mediums. From photography to sculpture to movie making this artist will be producing great works in the years to come.
Some of Herring's early works pay tribute to his close friend Ethyl Eichelberger, a drag performance artist who commited suicide in 1991. The ethereal sculptures he produced bring forth introspection, memory and mortality. The woven sculptures were created by knitting together pieces of Mylar into clothing, furniture and human figures.
After his sculpture pieces Herring moved on to making stop and go action videos. The materials he uses for his sets are recylced from one piece to the next. Herring's videos are very dreamlike and make you wonder if you are in the conscious world or the unconscious. The ending of his videos are always unpredictable and unexpected and always keeping the observer wondering what is next.
Herring's most recent work is that of making human like and life sized sculptures. He photgraphs a real life model from every possible angle over and over, he then takes the photo's and cuts them up and attaches them to the base of his sculpture; which is always in the same pose as the real life posed model. The cut pieces of the photographs becomes the sculpture. From a distance the human like sculptures look very real but as you get closer you can see all the seperate pieces that make up the sculpture as a whole.
Oliver Herring is a young artist with a considerable amount of need to experiment with many different mediums. From photography to sculpture to movie making this artist will be producing great works in the years to come.
(All the information is from http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/herring/index.html and information I recieved from watching the Art 21 documentary on Herring.
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