Artsy | James Ostrer

Gazelli Art House exhibition Johnny Just Came by James Ostrer features in Artsy.

 

"Ostrer’s series of over-the-top portraits here—shot back in the U.K., and in the U.S.—are as flashily composed as commercial fashion images, which only underscores how wonderfully repulsive their subjects are.

 

Each portrait is framed by raw, unlovely boards of wood, and the surrounding walls are gridded with an array of roughed-up flip-flops, which were salvaged from the beach in Lagos by Ostrer and a crew of locals he hired."

 – Scott Indrisek

March 7, 2018