Swathe, 2004 by Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler is a New York based artist whose works defy classification. He projects video onto
different medium. What you miss in this shot is that this piece of artwork is moving and talking,
forcing the viewer to interact with it. I saw a collection of his works at the Contemporary Arts
Museum in Houston in 1999 and loved it. His work is very surreal. My wife hates it. When I showed
her what I found today at Philbrook, she said, "Not that scary guy!"

From the exhibit notes:
In 1975 it was estimated that an average eighteen-year-old had attended school for 10,000 hours
and watched television for 20,000 hours. Oursler's work speaks both of and to the TV generation
and the media saturation of contemporary culture. As the artist has observed, "If you're trying
to make a social statement with an artwork today, like Picasso did with Guernica, I don't
think painting would be the vehicle."