Paul Pfeiffer

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse #20, 21 and 22, 2006
Color ink jet
13 × 6 ¼"
Edition size: 30
5 AP’s, 5 PP’s, 1 BP
Printed by Jon Cone Studio
Retail Price: $3,500 (tax and shipping costs not included)

Paul Pfeiffer’s groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and photography uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. In a series of video works focused on professional sports events–including basketball, boxing, and hockey–Pfeiffer digitally removes the bodies of the players from the games, shifting the viewer’s focus to the spectators, sports equipment, or trophies won. Presented on small LCD screens and often looped, these intimate and idealized video works are meditations on faith, desire, and a contemporary obsession with celebrity. Pfeiffer is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, most notably becoming the inaugural recipient of The Bucksbaum Award given by the Whitney Museum of American Art (2000). In 2002, Pfeiffer was an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas. In 2003 a traveling retrospective of his work was organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.