Lauren Simkin Berke "Excavations and Adaptations"
A.I.R. Gallery
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Excavations and Adaptations explores color and instinctive collage play with drawings that study how people document their lives. This grouping of more than sixty small works invites the viewer to engage with the art on a level of intimacy that reflects the reference material used: vintage photographs, personal photographs, and drawings from direct observation.
Berke has been collecting the collage materials used in these pieces for over a decade. They range from magazine pages to personal photographs, luggage tags to aging dress patterns. The linework is drawn in ink with a technical pen; the original drawings are no bigger than 3.5 in. x 5 in. The collages vary from simple swaths of color to complex abstract patterns.
These pieces engage with the past to play with universal themes of the industrial and post-industrial experience: finding friendship and joy in times of war, standing stiffly in front of monuments for vacation snapshots, taking required portraits on picture day at school, and even taking pictures of places one has fondness for, to remember, for evidence, or just for the beauty of the sight of the world.
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Schedule
from September 09, 2009 to October 04, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00