Installation view: Popular Mechanics, © Walead Beshty

Exhibition on view:
Popular Mechanics
Tuesday, March 3–Saturday, April 4, 2009

WALLSPACE
619 West 27th Street
New York, New York
(212) 594-9478

Now on view at WALLSPACE gallery in Chelsea is photographer Walead Beshty’s recent project Popular Mechanics.

Beshty is known for using photography as a tool to explore the social and political conditions of our material culture. He has a focused eye but yet a very laid-back awareness of the subjects around him. There is often a sense of uncertainty when looking at his work. He uses several media, including photograms, which appear as luminous abstract compositions where lines of demarcation do not seem to apply.

Walead Beshty’s work can also be seen in Altermodern: TateTriennial 2009, at Tate Britain in London, and he will be included in MoMA‘s annual New Photography 2009 in September.

Beshty was featured in the Fall 2008 issue of Aperture magazine.