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Chicago, IL 60607
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November 8, 2003 through January 3, 2004
AARON VAN DYKE plus ADRIANE HERMAN
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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