Austin Young
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Austin Young is a photographer and film maker currently based in Los Angeles. Young has worked as a photographer since 1985. Young's work has created an encyclopedic documentation of sub and trans culture in New York
, Los Angeles
and San Francisco. His short videos have over 5 million hits on YouTube. He is one third of the collaborative art group, Fallen Fruit
.
, Jackie Beat
, Leigh Bowery
, Dame Edna, Peaches Christ
, and Jeffree Star
. His celebrity portrait subjects include Oliver Stone
, Sandra Bernhard
, Simon Cowell
, Cassandra Peterson
, Margaret Cho
, Perez Hilton
, and Amy Poehler
. He has also directed videos for Jeffree Star, Jackie Beat's band Dirty Sanchez (band)
, and shot musicians like Siouxsie Sioux
, Deborah Harry, Jane Wiedlin
, Diamanda Galas
, Jessicka
, and Semi Precious Weapons
.
Young's most recent opening 'YOUR FACE HERE' took place on January 29, 2011 at Pop tART Gallery. This exhibition allowed Young to open his lens onto the public. Young established his art studio for a 5 week residency at Pop tART Gallery in Los Angeles. The public was invited to participate as the subject of the exhibition through the purchase of the pop cultural real estate of the gallery walls. The unveiling of Young's 'YOUR FACE HERE' portrait series took place March 12, 2011.
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
and San Francisco. His short videos have over 5 million hits on YouTube. He is one third of the collaborative art group, Fallen Fruit
Fallen Fruit
Fallen Fruit is an artists' collaboration, based in Los Angeles, whose three members are David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Using photography, video, performance, and installation, Fallen Fruit's work focusses on urban space, neighborhood, located citizenship and community in...
.
Career
His subjects include Sutan AmrullSutan Amrull
Sutan Amrull , known also as Raja and Raja Gemini, is an American make-up artist and drag performer. He is best known for his work on the reality television show America's Next Top Model, serving as the show's make-up artist for nine cycles...
, Jackie Beat
Jackie Beat
Jackie Beat is the drag persona of actor, singer, songwriter and screenwriter Kent Fuher. Beat has appeared in a number of independent feature films both in and out of drag, including Wigstock: The Movie, Flawless and Adam & Steve...
, Leigh Bowery
Leigh Bowery
Leigh Bowery was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, pop star, model and fashion designer, based in London. Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London and New York art and fashion circles influencing a generation of artists and...
, Dame Edna, Peaches Christ
Peaches Christ
Peaches Christ is an American underground drag performer, emcee, filmmaker, and actor. Peaches currently resides in San Francisco where his Backlash Production Company and Midnight Mass movie series are based....
, and Jeffree Star
Jeffree Star
Jeffree Star is an American model, fashion designer, make-up artist, DJ, and singer-songwriter residing in the Beverly Hills area...
. His celebrity portrait subjects include Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
, Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is number 97 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of...
, Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol...
, Cassandra Peterson
Cassandra Peterson
Cassandra Peterson is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation...
, Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. She has also directed and appeared in music...
, Perez Hilton
Perez Hilton
Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. , better known as Perez Hilton , is an American blogger and television personality. His blog, Perezhilton.com , is known for posts covering gossip items about celebrities...
, and Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler
Amy Meredith Poehler is an American comedian, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in Baby Mama in 2008. She is...
. He has also directed videos for Jeffree Star, Jackie Beat's band Dirty Sanchez (band)
Dirty Sanchez (band)
Dirty Sanchez is an electroclash band that formed in Los Angeles in 2001 and includes Jackie Beat, Mario Diaz and DJ BARBEAU.Dirty Sanchez have a very strong following on the West Coast, where they play to full houses. Dirty Sanchez have finished a very successful East Coast tour with Thrill Kill...
, and shot musicians like Siouxsie Sioux
Siouxsie Sioux
Siouxsie Sioux is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer of the critically acclaimed rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees and of its splinter group The Creatures . The Banshees produced eleven studio albums and a string of hit singles including "Hong Kong Garden",...
, Deborah Harry, Jane Wiedlin
Jane Wiedlin
Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actress. She is best known as the rhythm guitarist of the all-female New Wave band The Go-Go's.-Early life:...
, Diamanda Galas
Diamanda Galás
Diamanda Galás is an American avant-garde composer, vocalist, pianist, organist, performance artist and painter.Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", with her three and a half octave vocal range. She often screams, hisses and growls...
, Jessicka
Jessicka
Jessicka Addams is an American singer and artist. Best known by her stage name Jessicka, she was the front woman of Florida based band Jack Off Jill and current front for the Los Angeles based band Scarling.-Early life:Jessicka grew up in the town of Sunrise, Florida...
, and Semi Precious Weapons
Semi Precious Weapons
Semi Precious Weapons is a rock band from New York City consisting of Justin Tranter on vocals, Stevy Pyne on guitar, Cole Whittle on bass and Dan Crean on drums. Pyne replaced former guitarist, Aaron Lee Tasjan, in November 2008...
.
Young's most recent opening 'YOUR FACE HERE' took place on January 29, 2011 at Pop tART Gallery. This exhibition allowed Young to open his lens onto the public. Young established his art studio for a 5 week residency at Pop tART Gallery in Los Angeles. The public was invited to participate as the subject of the exhibition through the purchase of the pop cultural real estate of the gallery walls. The unveiling of Young's 'YOUR FACE HERE' portrait series took place March 12, 2011.