'Working next to a Portrait'... (after Jason Lazarus)

I took this photo today at work. This leads me into...

Artist of the week #2 - Jason Lazarus...


Copyright Jason Lazarus, 2006

Jason Lazarus is a photographer living in Chicago. I was first introduced to him because of his show at the 12x12 Gallery at the MCA, Chicago. He has a wonderful website and he has got himself a great Photoblog. Normally I am not a fan of "art on art" or "art about art".

Not all of his work is "Art on Art" but much of it is extremely conceptual. The first series of his I fell in love with was "Self-Portrait as an artist". The concept of these pieces, like most of the stuff on his blog is explained in the title. For Example... My favorite "self portrait as an Artist" image is titled "under the same moon as barack obama (self portrait as an artist series)". Most of these are on his site, JasonLazarus.com. Be sure to check out "Self-portrait as an artist (Burning down the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL" It's a good one!


Here are a few images from his new works...

Living with a Portrait series... One Two

Soundtrack series... One Two

See all of them on his Photoblog.