Paul Sepuya

Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Born 1984
San Bernardino, California
Education University of California Los Angeles MFA
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts BFA
Known for Portraiture
Movement Contemporary Studio Portraiture

Paul Mpagi Sepuya (born 1982 in San Bernardino, California) is a Brooklyn-based, American photographer and artist. His photographs focus heavily on the relationship between artist and subject, often exploring the nude and the relationship and intimacy of studio photography. Curator and critic Hilton Als, associated Sepuya philosophically and spiritually as one of writer, James Baldwin's "living children."[1]

Work

Sepuya's series Studio Work (2010–11) continues the development of his sustained interest in portraiture and the intimacy developed between the sitter and the photographer in the controlled environment of the studio. The range and breadth of his work examines not only the personality and character of the portrait but the private performance that exists within the photographic studio. “My studio was private, but not a closed environment. Rather, it was a stage that I inhabited and opened to those around me,” he says in reflecting on the production of the studio environment and those invited to have their portraits made. He draws inspiration for his contemporary investigations of studio photography from the works of Robert Mapplethorpe and art historian and critic Brian O'Doherty who's publication "Studio and Cube:On the relationship between where art is made and where art is displayed"[2] both feature prominently in his early work.

Since 2004, Sepuya has shot editorial features for I.D. (magazine), Kaiserin Magazine, and BUTT Magazine. His evolving collection of the self-published periodical 'SHOOT' has been sold internationally since its inception in 2005,[3]

Sepuya is represented by Document, Chicago; Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Als, Hilton. "James Baldwin/Jim Brown and the Children".
  2. ↑ O'Doherty, Brian (2007). Studio and Cube. New York City: Princeton Architectural Press. p. 40. ISBN 9781883584443.
  3. ↑ SHOOT Magazine
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