Great new work from Erin O’Keefe challenges our trust in photography

We first posted Erin O’Keefe’s work almost exactly a year ago. Since then, the New York-based artist and architect has been producing more optical illusion-based wonders. Erin’s architectural practice, and the inherently formal considerations of spatial perception involved, informs the distorted perspectives of her photography and 3D collage.

In the series American Quarto (the title referring to American letter size stock papers), Erin exploits the potential of the humble desktop printer in works that challenge what we understand as photographic. She uses physical, painterly strokes and Photoshop as a pre-production tool for gathering patterns and effects. Erin also uses colourised photographs of American Neoclassical marble statues as part of her distorted 2D translations of 3D space, creating work that is both aesthetically engaging and that challenges our perception of, and trust in photographic representation.