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Art Critique:
by Christopher Laubacher |
01 Feb.
It’s no coincidence that the series focuses on young ladies eating cake, but it’s also no accident that several of the photos show them eating cake in the bathroom.
It’s no coincidence that the series focuses on young ladies eating cake, but it’s also no accident that several of the photos show them eating cake in the bathroom.
Previous Featured Artists:
"To be sure, Flemington's oneiric world is a seductive construction. Every girl – or, rather, every young lady – dons a skirt and a cardigan; and a pair of stockings, a pair of heels, and a pearl necklace wait, it seems, to be pulled tenderly from each girl's nymphic skin."
"If evolution is a theme of Aida Laleian's individual works, it is also a fact of her general career. This Galerie makes this clear enough, spanning the ever-changing work she began as a college student, at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the work she now produces as an associate professor of photography, at Williams College."
"Sarah Hadley's photographs aim to capture the moments between sleep and wake within sepia-toned dreamscapes. Dancing on the verge of surrealism, Hadley's work offers a counterpoint to the visual reality of photography by challenging our perception of the object in its natural space."
"In Part II of our coverage on her art, Amy O. Woodbury's surrealist and cartoon-like cottages are on display."
"In Part I of our coverage on her art, Amy O. Woodbury's warped figurines jump into life in a dance of careful strokes and slashing lines."
"Iconic in its own way, Justin Cox's work uses stark color and defined lines to draw out the essential in each of his works."
"Angela Geis's work draws its strength from the dusky etherealness engendered by each of her photo's shadowed outlines, an influence that cannot be separated from her unique take on life: one drawn through blind eyes."
Read more about Angela in her interview with Editor Mikayla Lynch, located in Menagerie: The Darkroom of Angela Geis. »
Read more about Angela in her interview with Editor Mikayla Lynch, located in Menagerie: The Darkroom of Angela Geis. »
"Raw, dark, and beautiful, Mischa Goro's art is a menagerie of carefully disected forms, their limbs cut down to the rubbery tendon, left, if just ever barely, connected."
To see more of Mischa's art, visit his website, located here »
To see more of Mischa's art, visit his website, located here »
"What Chicago Artist Fidel Rodriguez brings to the city is not simply art: It is a procedure of living displayed on canvas, encoded with numbers and letters and paint strokes. What Rodriguez's work brings is life, ciphered."
You can read more about Fidel in his interview with Editor Mikayla Lynch in Menagerie, located here. »
You can read more about Fidel in his interview with Editor Mikayla Lynch in Menagerie, located here. »
"Chicagoan Elizabeth Weber's dreamlike pieces are composed with intuitive delicacy. The careful balance of light and dark, what is seen and what is imagined, come together in a fragile unity, rendering each finished piece into a complex field of both enchantment and curiosity."
Articles:
27 Jan. | (0) Remarks 
“An arrogance accompanies conceptualism, an arrogance that assumes realist painters like Rembrandt had no idea behind their work. This negation of the object is not at all what I admired: I’m a photographer—I love objects.”
—Mikayla Lynch
28 Dec. | (0) Remarks
Seven knotted pillars jut out of the sea and bask in the warm glow of the sun. While their purpose is not initially clear, their impact on the viewer lacks no strength.
—Mikayla Lynch
