January 2012
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Joe Nigel Coleman
illex welcomes English photographer Joe Nigel Coleman. Joe creates photographs that so strongly express the intensity of the visual image. Russian author Ivan Turgenev wrote in his novel Fathers and Sons, “A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound.” In many ways, Joe’s work and his approach to photography epitomize this maxim. In looking...
December 2011
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Ben Giles
illex welcomes English collage artist Ben Giles. With his inventive and imaginative collages, Ben creates unique worlds that challenge the viewer to consider discordant perspectives. Ben’s work possesses those qualities that we search for at illex: experimentation, exploration, a sense of discovery. Please enjoy his work and his interview. Many of your collage works...
November 2011
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Sebastian Reiser
illex welcomes Austrian photographer Sebastian Reiser. Sebastian’s work expresses an immediate calmness and simplicity, while at the same time exhibiting a compelling range of underlying complexities. Through a series of disarmingly quiet and complex images, Sebastian inspires wonder, exploration, and the search for understanding. Please enjoy his photographs and his interview. ...
Michael ten Pas
illex welcomes American photographer Michael ten Pas. Michael’s photography explores the intersection of reality and perception, and in doing so, his work possesses an irresistable sense of discovery. Please enjoy his work and his interview. From the series “Somehow Familiar” Your photos display an acute attention to the arrival and shape of light. In the first...
Beth Hoeckel
illex welcomes American artist Beth Hoeckel. Beth works with photography, paint, collage, and mixed media to create images that challenge the distinction between reality and imagination. In its powerful presentation of mystery and metaphor, Beth’s work possesses an original vision that speaks to one of us and all of us. Please enjoy her work and her interview :) VOID REALMS ...
June 2011
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Marlon Kowalski
illex welcomes German photographer Marlon Kowalski. Please enjoy his work and his interview :) Watch 2010, from the series “ Projections ” Daylight Green Geometry In your photo “Watch,” there is a fascinating contrast between the clock and the bed of pinecones. Topics that come to mind are color, texture, depth, movement, time, sound. Please tell us...
April 2011
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Benni Pause
illex welcomes German photographer Benni Pause. Benni is now studying psychology in Hungary, and his photography is influenced both by his travels and his academic study. Benni creates beautiful images with focused and careful consideration. Please enjoy his work and his interview :) untitled Picturesque My Heart #11 untitled, from the series “..” Picturesque My...
March 2011
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Hollis Brown Thornton
illex is delighted to welcome American artist Hollis Brown Thornton. In working with a wide variety of media, from photography to acrylic to marker, Hollis explores memory, identity, reality, science, and origin. Please enjoy his work and his interview :) VHS (screen print on paper) Secrets of the Sea, Version 1 of 5 (pigment transfer on paper) Sunset On a Wall (acrylic, pigment...
February 2011
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Thomas Albdorf
illex is honored and pleased to welcome German photographer Thomas Albdorf. Thomas’s work displays an artistic drive that engages and enlivens the creative spirit. Please enjoy his photographs and interview :) Spraypaint Horizontal, from the series “Lucent” 3 Circles [Blue], from the series “Objects” Silver Diagonal [tape on wood / stone], from the...
Ana Cuba
In the summer of 2009 Spanish photographer Ana Cuba travelled to her childhood home-away-from-home in Corbelle, where she created images full of life and memory. We’ve asked her a few questions about her experience. Please enjoy her photographs and her interview :) You’ve written on your blog that your Corbelle series was inspired by annual summer visits to this small...
January 2011
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Bez Uma
Bez Uma creates with a quiet intensity, capturing moments of lasting resonance. please enjoy his photographs and his interview :) “nowhere girl” is a title you’ve given to the second photograph that appears above. there is a beatles song titled “nowhere man.” Is this photograph an interpretation of that beatles song? Perhaps a female response? Of course,...
Emily Callahan
Emily Callahan, our first illex photographer, works with bold and fresh creativity. Please enjoy her photographs and her interview :) Your work possesses a strong intensity of impression. how were you inspired to create these “shifted” images? Going into my ways of shifting my pictures really began with the thought of wanting to do something that i had never really seen done...