Happy Election Day/Upcomming Melissa Catanese Show
Election day has finally arrived. There probably isn't a more exciting place to live in our country than Chicago today! I am so excited to be here.
If you happen to be one of my New York friends, you can celebrate a post election victory or wallow in your sorrows at the Sasha Wolf Gallery on Thursday between 6 and 8 pm while seeing Melissa Catanese's new photographs about the declining American rust belt. Melissa is a friend from undergraduate school who has been making some stellar work in the past few years. This is her first solo show of work from a series called Fieldwork. Details below.
From the Sasha Wolf website:
Catanese's exhibition is comprised of photographs taken within the last five years throughout her native Rust Belt region. Shot in and around Cleveland, Detroit and Pittsburgh, these pictures are both personal documents- a quasi-visual diary- and in their totality, a somewhat ominous and deadpan narrative. At times we feel as though we are seeing a point of view shot from a feature film in which something sinister is about to happen.
At other times we are directed toward a more banal subject and, particularly though the uninhibited use of a flash, asked to consider it in detail. There are subjects here that seem to be the object of Catanese's affection but sentimentality is definitely at a minimum and the snapshot aesthetic present in many of the photographs contributes to this take it or leave it attitude.
Fieldwork brings us to a decaying region, an area of post-industrial cities that represent to possible future of America as a declining nation. But this bad bill of health doesn't make Catanese love her subject any less; she's simply come to terms with its mortality.
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard Street, Tribeca, New York, NY 10013
212.925.0025
If you happen to be one of my New York friends, you can celebrate a post election victory or wallow in your sorrows at the Sasha Wolf Gallery on Thursday between 6 and 8 pm while seeing Melissa Catanese's new photographs about the declining American rust belt. Melissa is a friend from undergraduate school who has been making some stellar work in the past few years. This is her first solo show of work from a series called Fieldwork. Details below.
From the Sasha Wolf website:
Catanese's exhibition is comprised of photographs taken within the last five years throughout her native Rust Belt region. Shot in and around Cleveland, Detroit and Pittsburgh, these pictures are both personal documents- a quasi-visual diary- and in their totality, a somewhat ominous and deadpan narrative. At times we feel as though we are seeing a point of view shot from a feature film in which something sinister is about to happen.
At other times we are directed toward a more banal subject and, particularly though the uninhibited use of a flash, asked to consider it in detail. There are subjects here that seem to be the object of Catanese's affection but sentimentality is definitely at a minimum and the snapshot aesthetic present in many of the photographs contributes to this take it or leave it attitude.
Fieldwork brings us to a decaying region, an area of post-industrial cities that represent to possible future of America as a declining nation. But this bad bill of health doesn't make Catanese love her subject any less; she's simply come to terms with its mortality.
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard Street, Tribeca, New York, NY 10013
212.925.0025
Labels: Melissa Catanese, Sasha Wolf Gallery
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