Biography from AskART:
| Video-installation artist Tony Oursler believes, " . . . people are most attracted to the face." Oursler uses elements of the face along with video projection and loudspeakers where sounds of an insistent voice that complains, calls out for help or simply gives a death rattle bring his work to life.
Many of his subjects have dark humor and involve life-size rag dolls and globe shapes that serve as heads or eyes. His figures are often squashed under sofas, chair legs and mattresses, shut up in suitcases and trunks, or hang head-first from the ceiling.
Oursler was born in New York City to a cultured family of writers and artists, and he returned to that city to settle his studio. He attended the California Institute for the Arts, earning a B.F.A. in 1979.
Source:
Christoph Blase, "Art at the Turn of the Millennium"
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