| Vital Signs is a selection of young and emerging
photographers who survey the world they inhabit and show us what they
observe in distinctively personal visual vocabularies. Though these
vocabularies differ greatly as do the artists' choices of media and
techniques, all of the work shares a compelling and edgy ambiguity and
an ability to hold and convey contradictory emotional states at the same
time. This exhibition introduces us to twelve artists from five
countries. Their work offers us a sense of the many worlds they choose
to see, as well as the complex range of feelings that accompanies that
seeing. The artists include Americans Bremner Benedict, Peter Holzhauer,
Eirik Johnson, Chris McCaw, A. Leo Nash, Lori Nix, and Ken Rosenthal;
Canadians Lisa Klapstock, and Louie Palu; German Johannes Hepp; Dane
Astrid Kruse Jensen; and Englishman Simon Norfolk.
The work ranges from Louie Palu's beautifully compelling images of
chaotic and dangerous mines in northern Canada to Johannes Hepp's
panoramic images of seemingly normal places that were once used for acts
of terrorism, to Lori Nix's tabletop-constructed images of train wrecks,
floods, and toxic spills.
Vital Signs affords the
viewer a look at emerging artists
and their take on the world.
A 36-page, 11 x 8-1/2-inch,
color catalog is available for purchase.
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Louie Palu. SHAFT MINER AT 2500 FOOT LEVEL...QUEBEC, 1994. Gelatin silver print. |
