Oliver Wasow was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1960. He currently lives in NY with his wife (artist, Dana Hoey) and his two children. Oliver teaches Digital Imaging and Photo Critique in different places such as: The Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts , The School of Visual Arts Graduate Program in Photography and Related Media, and SVA's Undergraduate Photography Program.With this days technology, almost anything is possible to create. Oliver Wasow has taken advantage of those endless opportunities and has created some amazing, almost unreal, pieces of work. In his pieces of work, Oliver Wasow combines different pieces of photography with digital enhancing to create somewhat of a collage of different scenes and/or objects. The collages then depict a very strange and different world with various things combined that you would not normally see together in the real world; yet they mesh together so well. Most of his works do not usually have a title, they are always called “untitled” and have a different number next to them. The picture posted above is called “Untitled #339”. The minute I saw this picture in our text;
I was immediately attracted to it because of the colors and the interesting details of it. I looked even closer to see that it wasn’t just photography that someone had been minorly edited. It looked more like a “fantasy land” if you will. His work looks like something you could only imagine in your mind but would be very difficult to create. That is what I love about this artist. I can somewhat relate to him because I can always picture things in my mind that look very similar to his works. However, I do not have the experience or skills just yet to create anything near to what he can create so I was very excited to see digital art of that kind in a tangible form. When I think of digital art; The types of work that Oliver Wasow creates are exactly what I think of.
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