Charles LaBelle

Intellectually rigorous and often poignant, Charles LaBelle’s work is devoted to investigating the interrelatedness of place and subjectivity. His practice embraces and often combines a variety of media, including photography, video, drawing, sculpture as well as action-based and site-specific works.

Critic Gean Moreno has written: “LaBelle’s explorations of the city are never divorced from the continuous inquiry of the body. He proposes that one’s surroundings serve as more than mere setting: they are a poetics of lived experience.”

Having received his bachelor of fine arts degree at UCLA in 1988, LaBelle then studied film-making at the prestigious UCLA film school before pursuing a full-time career in art. After five years in New York, where he was an instructor in the graduate program of photography at Parsons School of Design, LaBelle relocated to Hong Kong last year.

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  • One PPG Place, Philip Johnson, 1984, Pittsburgh, USA, 2009/08/01 14:50, Gesso and graphite on annotated book pages, 8’ x 5 ¼”
  • HSBC Headquarters, Norman Foster, 1985, Hong Kong, China, 2007/03/05 09:44, Gesso and graphite on annotated book pages, 8’ x 5 ¼”
  • Cooper Union, Thom Mayne, 2009, New York, USA, 2009/08/06 17:50, Gesso and graphite on annotated book pages, 8’ x 5 ¼”
  • Sagrada Familia, Antonio Gaudi, 1882, 2003/07/18 13:38, Gesso and graphite on annotated book pages, 8’ x 5 ¼”
  • Dancing House,Frank Gehry, 1996, Prague, Czech Rep, 2003/06/21 14:37, Gesso and graphite on annotated book pages, 8’ x 5 ¼”
  • ICA, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, 2006, Boston, USA, 2007/09/29 15:54, Gesso and graphite on annotated book pages, 8’ x 5 ¼”
  • Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1937, Mill Run PA, USA, 2009/03/07 12:17, Gesso and graphite on annotated book pages, 8’ x 5 ¼”
  • Fondation Cartier,Jean Nouvel, 1994, Paris, France, 2007/11/13 13:34, Gesso and graphite on annotated book pages, 8’ x 5 ¼”