Steele & Tomczak

Steele
and
Tomczak

Photographic

Bump in the Night... Steele & Tomczak 2010 … bump in the night is composed of large scale photographs showing adolescents photographed from the back, to whom the artists asked a series of questions, focusing more on the adolescents’ fears than on their ambitions – describe a recent nightmare, a striking event that happened at school, reveal what scares them the most. Their responses, inscribed on the image itself, are disturbing and reveal a deep malaise as well as an exceptional solitude. (From Dazibao Gallery, Montreal) view series / more info

Facing Forward Steele & Tomczak 2008 Facing Forward is a series of six photo/text works featuring the entranceways to business and financial institutions from the area in and around Stuttgart, a very prosperous economic region in Germany. The text that is embedded into each image is drawn from an interview with one business person. view series / more info

Herr Beuys at home, 1978 Lisa Steele 2 ¼ b/w negatives 1978, silver prints 2009 Taken at the Dusseldorf home of Joseph Beuys after an interview for FUSE magazine conducted by Steele and Clive Robertson, June 1978. view series / more info

Dave and Mao, 1978 Kim Tomczak 4x5 colour transparencies 1978, digital prints 2009 The late Dave Larson, west-coast poet, strikes the pose of louche punk sporting a series of Tomczak-made t-shirts, making wearable propaganda new again. view series / more info