Olvier Wasow is an artist working with photography and other
related media. He has been in reviewed in numerous publications and is
currently a teacher at the School of Visual Arts at NYU.
Oliver Wasow is an artist known for his
manipulation.
Wasow’s body of work shows his unique talent to create unknown and surreal landscapes
through computer manipulations and real life photography. The combination of both real/actual landscapes
alongside digitally manipulated images is what makes his work so interesting.
While viewing his artwork, it’s difficult to know whether these places are
fantasies or reality. Wasow’s landscapes suggest an “otherworldliness”, while
at the same time a believable reality that may exist in an unknown place. Although
they incorporate ‘real’ and ‘artificial’ images, they are almost seamless, creating
a unique spin on art in the digital age.
The strongest aspect of Wasow’s work is how unified his
images are. The conflict with constructing such pictures is its continuity
within the photograph. I think the reason I like his artwork so much is that I
can identity what images in the photo are faked and which are real, yet at the
same time they seem like they could exist. I believe with Christiania Paul’s
interpretation stating, “ Wasow’s landscapes are neither ‘here’ nor ‘there’,
depicting a stylized or dramatic, painterly view while maintaining basic
spatial and temporal referents to create a seemless, unified image”. Spacing is
an important component of Wasow’s artwork especially when fusing real life and
digital images in such a unique and unified way.
