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uhaul ice wave 2

photographed:  2007, 2008
imaged:  2008

amoeba pine inverse

photographed:  2007, 2008
imaged: 2008

Green Stars Rectangle

taken:  2006
imaged: 2008

Green Stars with Watches

This is also known as "The Watch of Railroad Accuracy".

taken: 2006
imaged: 2008

Candy Land with Wreckage

taken: 2008
imaged: 2008

Candyland

taken: 2008
imaged: 2008

West Medford Indian

taken: 2007
imaged: 2008

Mossy Vert Rock

taken: 2006
imaged: 2008

Proprietor

taken:  2007

imaged: 2007

green stars

taken:  2006
imaged: 2007

pool player

taken: 2007
imaged: 2007

sopwith

source: public domain
imaged:  2007

blue green

taken 2006
imaged 2007

Bio

Jim Ospenson lives in Medford Mass.  He received an MFA in Film and Video from Temple University, and studied film, philosophy and math as an undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ospenson was a founder of the Termite Television Collective (www.termite.org).  His work has screened nationally through Free Speech TV.  Additionally, his work has screened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and New York's Museum of Modern Art.

After many years as a web designer, his current day job is in information technology for health & human services.

Artist's Statement

I've been trained as a documentary filmmaker and video artist, but have always thought of my work as experimental and critical. My basis in "documentary" underpins my respect for non-fiction, but I know there's no such thing as an unmediated image - and so it's all fiction.

I'm also attracted to appropriated imagery, and believe that if I see something in my travels through the media, then it's at risk to become material for my work.

I've only recently started exploring drawing and illustration - let's see where it takes me.  I like if because it's very spontaneous and gestural.  It's appealing to me because it's concrete and tangible and verbal.

Now that I've begun making work again, I need to update my influences.

contact information

email address:  comments (at) jambop.com