Greg Haberny

Utilizing the medium of installation, Greg Haberny integrates his multi-faceted artistic vision with his knowledge of filmmaking and creates what might be considered film sets and like a storyboard, the strategic decisions and quiet psychologies steer the viewer to take notice of his intentions individually and, as a whole.

Mixing influences from Alfred Hitchcock to Terry Richardson, Haberny's grasp, awareness and assimilation of cultural iconography remain true to themselves. His regeneration of vintage comics, pin-up girls of yesteryear and baby boomer advertising opens an inner dialogue which shifts our perceptions and creates stories with individual works which participate in a larger experience within the installation. He creates a makeshift, yet nearly cinematic representation turning the gallery into a movie, one to be inhabited, rather than passively viewed.

The unsuspecting viewer of a Greg Haberny installation is torn from the dullness of the everyday and shoved into a violent landscape where greed, lust and ignorance have generated political corruption, wartime propaganda, unemployment, doped-up celebrities, oil disasters and out-of-control industrial policy. Within this environment one is left to identify with th...