Holly Murkerson & Neal Vanderbergh: Balcony
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, December 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 11th
Distance, light, and atmosphere make their mark on the flat surface of the film negative or digital sensor. If desire is a horizon, then that horizon is now trapped in the emulsion –it is something that can now be held and possessed, however, as a flat artifact, it is a dead space, something that cannot be entered physically.
Neal Vandenbergh’s new work finds its political stakes in the surface of public space. Sculptures, drawings and video dwell on the what can be seen determining the what can be thought determining the what can be done (they’re all shiny). The perceiving subject is the social subject in the production of how it is possible to be in our perpetual here and now.
Arrangement and withholding are the tools that Holly Murkerson applies to the photographic object, which in turn acknowledges the limits of the seeing body. Space is constructed and scale is determined through subjective hierarchies of value – what might it look like to see out from within the maker’s body? Images that may imply the viewpoint of two bodies standing next to or just across from each other are sometimes spatially withheld from one another; sometimes they never even hang in the same room at the same time, creating a feedback loop of desire.
Holly Murkerson (b. 1982, Lakeland, FL) currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, where she received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2010). Recent shows include Imperfect Symmetry: A Compendium (A +D Gallery, Columbia College), Sea Change (Andrew Rafacz, Chicago), Mémoire Involontaire (Columbia University, New York), and the 21st Evanston and Vicinity Biennial (Evanston, IL) curated by Shannon Stratton. Her work was the subject of a solo exhibition, Landlocked Blue, in 2011 at Julius Caesar, Chicago. In addition to her visual practice, Murkerson contributes to ADDS DONNA, a gallery space in Chicago collaboratively programmed by eight artists.
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