Bruce Charlesworth (born 1950) is an American artist, known primarily for his highly stylized and constructed photographic, video and multimedia works.
Objects and set pieces are stripped down to their most basic form and intense colors, patterns, and lighting work together with performers to create narrative tension and absurd humor.
My themes include lighting and color as visual disruptions, layers created by barriers and screens, extremes of distance and contrasts of vastness with confined space.
Video and film works include Communiqués for Tape (1981), Robert and Roger (1985), Dateline for Danger (1987), A Stranger's Index (1990) and The Happiness Effect (2004).
The interactive video installation Love Disorder was featured in the Zero1 Biennial (2008) in San Jose, California and in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's Wisconsin Triennial (2010).