Anthony Goicolea

"Within murky, watery settings, my recent photographs cast my own image as a group of identical boys. These works address issues of age and gender, self-love and self-hate, discipline and impulse, technology, religion and science, all within a framework of homogeneity and mass production. The aquatic environments limit the viewer’s ability to interpret the semi-artificial world on display, an underwater world in which real people could not exist for extended periods of time. Submerged in an underworld that soaks through and covers everyone and everything, muffles sound, and blurs vision, the uniformly dressed boys are reduced to anonymous, bloated figures floating in a womb-like environment."

Anthony Goicolea’s work is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, as part of an exhibition of recent acquisitions. He recently had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and was included in Dennis Cooper’s Guide to Trust exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Bronx Museum. He received his MFA in Sculpture with a Minor in Photography from the Pratt Institute for Art in 1996. Pressetext

Anthony Goicolea