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artwork above:
”Another Extraordinary Rendition” by Iain Fraser |
artwork above:
Untitled by Robert Logan |
Exhibit Open: March 30 - May 6, 2009
Reception: Friday, April 3, 6:00-8:00 PM |
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Iain Fraser: “missed places”
What kinds of places for people could we imagine if we were to embrace the legacy of our infrastructure, incorporate the machineries that support our societies, love the mechanisms that subtend our expected quality of life? What if we made them part of our vocabulary of place making? What if they replaced our nostalgia for a bucolic and pre-industrial past (an image that probably never existed)? What if we invest in a whole-hearted search for surprising places in the infrastructures that we have made, but ignored and denied? They are there, in the servant machinery that has commanded so much of our energy and treasure, and so little of our affection. |
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Robert Logan: "Constructivists Chicago"
“Constructivist Chicago” celebrates the strengths of a great city, as expressed in a
variety of its structures. This project started for Logan a few years ago, when
driving north of Chicago Avenue on Halsted Street; he was stopped by traffic on
the Chicago River Bridge, and chanced to look west. There stood the working
structures of the Material Service Company, full of raw power, combined with a
rare grace. The configuration of industrial buildings expressed a beautiful
symphony of black and white forms. After a period of photographic exploration
of that structural delight, came the desire to seek some of the same feeling in the
City’s center. Finding it was the excitement. Capturing it with medium format
film was his challenge. |