Doug & Mike Starn
Absorption + Transmission
Noyes Museum of Art
Oceanville, NJ
May 1 – August 5, 2007
"The Starn Twins" are in the twbewords, are the best at what they do.Mike and Doug Starn, American artists and identical twins, were born in New Jersey in 1961. Working collaboratively in photography since age thirteen. Take a field trip and go and see there most recent work commissioned by The National Accademy of Sciences, Absorption + Transmission, A traveling exhibit by the Artist's Mike and Doug Starn, travels to New Jersey in May.
"Absorption + Transmission refers to leaves, trees and photographs absorbing light (and the absorbing of light being its opposite). In almost any culture in the history of the world, light is used as a metaphor for thought, knowledge, intelligence... "(from the artist notes).
Mike and Doug Starn, American artists and identical twins, were born in New Jersey in 1961. Working collaboratively in photography since age thirteen, they continue to defy categorization by effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as sculpture, painting, video, and installation. Their work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide for two decades, and has received international critical acclaim for their conceptual approach to photography. Fueled by their thoughtful investigations of art, philosophy, cognitive science and history, the Starns provoke an interrogation of Cartesian ontology with their unique melding of metaphor and material. From the transformation of a delicate drying leaf into a digital sculpture, or a moth etched onto film by light, its own undoing, the Starns' images thrum with the poetic tension between presence and absence, darkness and enlightenment.
