Gina Osterloh: Anonymous Front @ YBCA

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Artist Gina Osterloh combines abstract photographs of camouflage and invisibility with travels to Manila and a vocational massage therapy school for the blind.

About Gina Osterloh
Gina Osterloh is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Her practice investigates operations of mimesis and perception within the realm of photography. Her photographs depict constructed life-size room environments activated through still, serial performances; papier-machè models; and cardboard cutouts. Recent exhibitions include Body Prop (Silverlens Gallery) and Differentiate, a two-person exhibition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 2007-2008, Osterloh traveled to the Philippines on a Fulbright scholarship and created a new body of photographs that depicted spaces made from everyday office paper used in Manila. She was also awarded a Medici Grant and a Completion Grant by the Silverlens Foundation of the Philippines. While at Monte Vista Projects LA, she curated the exhibition Minimum Yields Maximum, which presented conceptual and political works from the Philippines, Vietnam, and California. Osterloh holds a BA in media studies from DePaul University and an MFA in studio art from the University of California, Irvine. Her work is represented by Silverlens Gallery, Manila and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles.

About Anonymous Front
Anonymous Front marks a new arc in Gina Osterloh's practice as she addresses perception, the body as prop, identity, and sight and blindness through photographic works, sculptures and video. Her photographs depict rooms constructed of paper and fabric, demarcated with meticulous dot matrix and light patterns in which figures flutter between flatness and three-dimensionality. Osterloh's new film project, commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, is a visual essay on physical blindness and identity, created in collaboration with a vocational massage therapy school for the blind in the Philippines called New Vision. Through pared down materials and aesthetics, the artist addresses the structure of sight and perception.

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