Suburban Explorations by Ian Strange

Ian Strange is an artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home, alongside broader themes of disenfranchisement in the urban environment. His practice includes large-scale multifaceted projects resulting in; photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific interventions, film works and exhibitions. His studio practice includes painting, drawing and on-going research projects. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

“…Strange has used a number of techniques and processes as part of his exploration, from spray-painting images directly onto facades to repainting entire houses in monochromatic colour schemes, transforming them from places for living into enormous and highly charged sculptural objects. Strange’s photographs and videos challenge the idea of the family home as a place of warmth and safety by simultaneously elevating and destroying it, both literally and figuratively. In doing so, Strange reveals his own antithetical relationship with the suburbs and invites us to explore our own response to them." ~ David Hurlston - Curator Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria

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