Nov 9th 2012

Mike Nudelman: Seeing Things

@ Thomas Robertello Gallery

27 N Morgan St Chicago, IL

Opening Friday, November 9th, from 6PM - 8PM

On view through Saturday, December 22nd

Thomas Robertello Gallery is pleased to present Seeing Things: an exhibition of recent drawings by Chicago-based artist Mike Nudelman, November 9 through December 22, 2012. There will be an opening reception Friday November 9, 6:00 – 8:00 PM.

Nudelman’s meticulous ballpoint pen drawings take Earth and outer space landscapes as a starting point, filtering sources through various historical ways of viewing: painting, stereoscopy, telescopic photography, and screen-based media found on the Internet. Each work is built up with thin layers of diagonally drawn iridescent marks. The artist’s hand scans the surface of the paper from the lower left corner to the top right leaving thousands of marks the size of small hairs, gradually building an image.

Among Nudelman’s sources for the images in this exhibition are reproductions of pictures by Hudson River School painters Frederick Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt, former-astronauts-turned-artists Alan Bean and Alexei Leonov, and NASA photographers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Some images are cobbled together using a combination of these sources depicting seemingly unbelievable, serendipitous phenomena. The images often appear closer to movie stills, simulations, or dreamscapes, than anything naturally occurring. These supernatural images exist primarily on the virtual plane where time and space are malleable constructs and the sublime is more a feat of engineering than happenstance.

Mike Nudelman (b. 1985, Smithtown, New York) currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. He earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2009 and a BFA in Printmaking from Cornell University in 2007. This is his second solo exhibition with the gallery.

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