Seth Price

István Csákány, Ghost Keeping, 2012 : PH: Henrik Stromberg

Walking the fine line between contemporary art and contemporary fashion can lead into those super-semiotic woods where the grass is artificial and art's theoretical language turns into babble

Seth Price at Friedrich Petzel

Artist Jayson Keeling is one TI's key tipsters for filtering which shows to see in NY.

Untitled Vintage Bomber:2005:Vacuum formed high impact polystyrene 33X 48

I worked all through the weekend, which I usually hate doing. One of the gigs was a shoot where a rising photographer friend of mine said "I like your Imagist thing. Its well put together, but I'm totally confused by it." Truth be told I'm completely confused by it too. After years of a love-hate tension with the thing, I have finally conceded that I'm seriously in love with the idea of fashion. Same for art. Or at least the idea of art. The relationship between the two, art and fashion, is the seed of the confusion my friend was invoking . Artists like Seth Price perfectly solve this conflict for me. Not because Seth Price is fashionable (god forbid!) but because he has really influential ideas about industrial images : the value of those images and the disposable nature of those images. Lately when I look at fashion images it occurs to me that all of fashion is a high grade form of industrial waste. Which possibly makes me love it more.