Starn brothers biography

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Mike & Doug Starn, photo Thomas Canet

Since the 1980s, Mike and Doug Starn’s conceptual approach to photography and use of unorthodox techniques have challenged ideas of what constitutes a photograph. The identical twin brothers came to international attention through their inclusion in the 1987 Whitney Biennial in New York. In their signature manipulation of material and form, the Starns apply innovative printing techniques and a vast array of media including transparency film, plexiglass, layered fused glass panels, gilded coloured carbon prints, scotch tape, wax and pushpins to create intense metaphorical landscapes. With the theme of light as a central component of their work, the brothers explore the physical and philosophical interconnections between subjects such as leaves, trees, snowflakes, and religious icons, with human memory, perception and thought. Working collaboratively in photography since the age of thirteen, their innovative techniques, and unique combination of sculpture, painting, and video, have defied categorisation, and earned them a position of eminence within the history of art.

Born in New Jersey, USA in 1961, Mike and Doug Starn attended The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. They have received two N

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Doug and Mike Starn, American artists, identical twins, were born in 1961. They first received international attention at the 1987 Whitney Biennial, and for more than twenty years they were primarily known for working conceptually with photography. Their work has evolved through combining traditionally separate disciplines such as photography, sculpture, architecture–most notably their series Big Bambú. Major themes of their work include chaos, interconnection and interdependence.

 

At their mammoth laboratory studio in Beacon, New York, the former Tallix foundry, the Starns work in dialogue between their many concurrent series: most recently The No Mind Not Thinks No Things and other Buddhist explorations – the Absorption of Light concept, alleverythingthatisyou – their photomicrographs of snow crystals, and their re-exploration of the late 19th century colour carbon printing process. Through their carbon-prints, the Starns mingle gilding techniques to the painterly photo-process, and further advance their metaphorical lexicon on light with photographs of Buddhist statuary.

 

The Starns were represented by Leo Castelli from 1989 until his death in 1999. The Starns have received many honours incl