AUSTIN IRVING
SHED WORLD

In SHED WORLD, Irving casts a distinctly cinematic eye over a nine-acre outdoor showroom of prefabricated sheds located outside Hesperia; a small town in Southern California’s high desert. These brightly lit sheds are visible from the freeway, perched atop wooden pallets waiting to be fork-lifted off the lot and transported to your backyard. The artist considers this series to be both a study of utilitarian architecture designed for the average consumer, as well as a collection of environmental portraits. Using a large format camera, Irving photographs the sheds individually, making long exposures of each spotlit structure moored in a sea of black. This dramatic chiaroscuro creates a filmic effect, transforming what was intended to be an accessory building into the main attraction. Functionality and personality are juxtaposed, creating a provocative contrast that expands the experience of these structures beyond the mundanity of their workaday origins.

Author
Austin Irving (b. 1984, NYC) is an award winning visual artist who works with large format analog photography. Irving graduated cum laude with a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU’s TISCH School Of The Arts in 2006. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Hong Kong, India, Germany, Lithuania, France, and across the United States. She has participated in exhibitions at institutions such as MOCA, The Irvine Fine Arts Center, FMoPA, The International Photography Symposium, Virginia Tech, NY Center for Photographic Arts, and The Katonah Museum of Art. Her work has been the recipient of the Architecture Master Prize, Aesthetica Art Prize, MonoAwards, American Photography Competition, IPA, PX3, TIFA, and BIFA. Her images have been featured in The LA Times, Wired, Slate, Architectural Digest, LA Weekly, PDN, Artillery, TimeOut NY, Artsy, Voyage LA, Yatzer, and Artweek LA. Irving lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their dog, Kodak.

Website
www.austinirving.com

Instagram
@austin.irving

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