"The New Old" Exhibition
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
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The three photographers presented here each confront the power of agnostic forces external to the image to reshape and remake the work— and the medium— itself. Yorgo Alexopoulos’ snapshots from 1980s Los Angeles— from Venice Beach to Pasadena, Long Beach to the Valley— are portraits of an indigenous American culture, waylaid dispatches from a time and place both vanished and immanent—when the world of graffiti and skateboarding had a firm hold on local youth. Stephen Gill’s photographs of Hackney Wick, London, are, similarly, documentary objects pointedly manipulated and strategically abandoned to chance, images at once intentional and arbitrary. Gill buries the photographs in and around the neighborhood, varying the amount of time, positioning, and depth of each burial, allowing unpredictable natural elements to alter the image and initiating a collaboration of time and place, artist and environment, that generates work that is more unique object than simple photograph. Burton Machen uses borrowed and found portraits, pasting them on buildings and scaffolding in cities across America and Europe. Abandoning them for a time, Machen then returns to find the images altered not simply by chance and nature, but by the direct intervention of passersby and the natural metamorphosis of the urban environment.
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Schedule
from January 15, 2010 to February 21, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-01-15 from 18:00 to 20:00