Deceptively simple, aggressively frank, and yet incessantly jarring, the photographic work of Tel Aviv–born artist Elad Lassry has managed to strike such deep nerves in the art world that he has already been claimed as a conceptualist, a realist, a neo-Pictures Generation artist, a pop recycler, and just about every other genre that has anything to do with objects and their consumption.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/15/10

In the 21st century, Los Angeles can no longer be called a single-industry town. Today there are new artists and art movements sweeping from Topanga to Silver Lake. Here is a showing of the creators, legends, radicals, collectors, gallerists, leaders, loners, and visionaries who are turning the city at the center of the entertainment world into the next capital of contemporary art.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/14/10

We spoke to Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry about why his images aren't just photos, and why cliché imagery isn't just kitsch.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/23/09

"It's kind of the post-picture-generation approach," says Elad Lassry of his high-conceptualism-meets-stock photography technique. The 30-year-old artist, who is a native of Tel Aviv and moved to Los Angeles at 20, originally attended CalArts as a film student, but his theoretical bend led professors to suggest taking up a second major in the visual arts.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/25/08