by Gabriella Radujko
on August 2nd, 2010
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Exit Art tackled the notion that “global environmental struggles are creating an aesthetic” by mounting the photographic exhibit Ecoaesthetic: The Tragedy of Beauty on the main floor and hosting the SEA Poetry Series No. 4 in its cozy subterranean digital theatre on July 27, 2010.
The photographic highlights pictured here include Chris Jordan’s Midway Project, 2009, which documents the devastating impact plastic pollution has had on Midway Atoll albatross chicks in collage-like compositions, and Susannah Sayler’s Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting XLVII: Cordillera Blanca, Peru, 2008 documenting a vanishing glacier, juxtaposing the limitations of attempting to capture geological time pitted against human time, capturing stasis as a positive state. Continue Reading More »
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by Howard Hurst
on August 1st, 2010
Retratos Pintados the current exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery, presents a unique look at a little known and fascinating photographic tradition from Northeastern Brazil. The 150 vintage painted photographs stem from a practice popular in parts of rural Brazil since the late 19th century. Until the 1990s local artisans were commonly employed to embellish black and white family portraits using washes of oil paint and other techniques indigenous to the area. The practice was not wholly decorative. Long before the denizens of Myspace were photoshopping themselves into oblivion, Brazilian families were wrinkle free, had white smiles and full heads of hair.
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