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Ed Templeton visualizes the contemporary human condition in a whirlwind of present-tense imagery, filtered through photographs, paintings and drawings. Over the past decades, Templeton has built an oeuvre that closely tracks his day-to-day reality; recording life in the Southern Californian suburbs, his flawed family background, his life as a professional skateboarder and internationally exhibiting artist, and the relationship between the artist and his muse – his wife Deanna.

Although he intensely documents his own life and that of the people surrounding him, his work transcends the autobiographical and exposes different social phenomenons without hints or hesitation. As he spends a lot of time with young people who are at an uncertain phase of discovery in their lives, topics such as dreams, hopes, worries and self-profiling often are central to the work of Templeton. He visualizes their sexuality, fear, aggression, happiness and problems without judgement. Ed Templeton frequently writes anecdotes, feelings or thoughts on his photographs, drawings and paintings – which provide the images with a new, deepening lecture.