AARON VAN DYKE plus
ADRIANE HERMAN
November 8, 2003 through January 3, 2004
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AARON
VAN DYKE'S lambda prints are made by scanning patterned
textiles (both new and used: used sheets preferably with stains - another
form of "painting") and digitally erasing the woven imagery.
A simple (if laborious) process results in images of understated, quietly
powerful beauty, while taking a somewhat perverse pathway of using erasure
to examine decoration.
Chicagoans may have seen Aaron's work
in Hysterical Pastoral at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and
in Subtle, Not So Subtle at 1R Gallery. He was also included in group
shows at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Hermetic Gallery, also in Milwaukee,
the Waiting Room in Minneapolis and the Bower in San Antonio. In a review
of Cold Conceptualism at Chicago's Suitable Gallery in Frieze, Michelle
Grabner described Aaron's photos "as magical and mesmerizing as
snow in headlights."
ADRIANE
HERMAN's project was instigated by a housewarming gift from
her mother upon her relocation to Portland, Maine. This gift, two plastic
serving trays, made in China and purchased at a dollar store in Florida,
depicts the "world's most photographed lighthouse," the Portland
Head Light. Herman's photographic installation fuses the rendering with
the real, the lighthouse and its doppelganger, as she ponders the verities
of representation, the relevance of kitsch and her standing in her new
hometown. (See statement
regarding this piece).
Herman's work, which often explores of
the relationship between food and memory and the culture of consumption,
appears in the 1997 book The Best of Printmaking and has been exhibited
widely in the US and abroad, including Digital Printmaking: Now at the
Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2001. Her 1999 solo exhibition at the Adam
Baumgold Gallery was described in The New Yorker as "appetizing
silliness" and her work is in the collections of the Art Institute
of Chicago, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Nelson-Atkins
Museum in Kansas City and Adobe Systems corporate collection in San
Francisco.
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