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Aaron Van Dyke: New Photos
plus a recent project by Adriane Herman
November 8, 2003 through January 3, 2004
909 West Sunnyside #3W, Chicago, IL 60640
Nov.8: 1-5pm
Nov. 29: 1-5pm
Dec. 13: 1-5pm
Dec. 20, 1-5pm
Jan. 3: 1-5pm
and by appointmentAARON 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.
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).
This show inaugurates WESTERN EXHIBITIONS new headquarters in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, at the intersection of Sunnyside and Hazel Streets, near the Sheridan, Montrose and Broadway intersection and the Wilson stop on the Red Line.
Directions:
Driving from the west: Drive east on Montrose Avenue, past Sheridan and Broadway. Turn left on Hazel, at second stopsign turn left on Sunnyide and look for parking.
From the east: Lakeshore Drive, Montrose exit. Turn right on Hazel. Left on Sunnyside.
From the CTA: Redline to the Wilson stop. Walk south on Broadway two blocks, turn left on Sunnyside, two blocks to 909.
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