Frank Oudeman

Artist Statement

My work as a photographer is driven by the question of how to capture meaningful thought and experience in a single, still image. I push against photography’s stillness, fixedness and instantaneity, testing the medium’s conventionally defined boundaries. My recent images are explorations in tilting, tripping and arresting vision – as my camera sees it - to let it float freely again. Slicing up the given one moment and singular point-of-view of photography, I propose a fractured discontinuity of many moments and many points-of-view. These are lens-based images shot in a landscape, made with and in the camera through a process of multiple exposure. As a means to fragment light, surface and space, I use multiple exposure to visualize a scattered succession of moments and to suggest the element of time as a unity disassembled.

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Bio

Frank Oudeman is a Dutch visual artist and photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His current work challenges photography’s conventional boundaries, testing and resisting the medium’s stillness, fixedness and instantaneity. Conceiving and constructing an array of disruptive devices around the lens of his camera, Oudeman seeks to complicate and elongate the singularities of time and point-of-view inherent to photography itself. Recent images explore the tilting, tripping and slicing of vision as the camera sees it. arresting vision to let it float freely again. Oudeman earned his MFA from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.  His video work was included in the 2016 Venice Biennale for Architecture and his photographs feature regularly in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, A+U and Frame among numerous national and international publications. He is the recipient of awards from the European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten’s Emerging Artist Prize, The Netherlands and The Netherland-America Foundation Fellowship. Recent residencies include MacDowell, BMAC Turks & Caicos residency and The Liljestrand House-Foundation, O’ahu.

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