Art Out: Curious Devices and Objects, Miles Aldridge, Ansel Adams
Max de Esteban
PO10 (2011)
Archival Pigment Print | 39.4” x 52” & 20.7” x 27.6” | Edition: 5+1AP in each size
Klompching Gallery | November 10, 2022 - February 26, 2022
Curious Devices is a newly-released series of photographs by Jeanette May, which continues her exploration of beautifully designed vintage technology. The technological tableaus span antique stereoscopes and art deco clocks to Bluetooth headphones. Each object’s style, color, and material construction epitomize a period of both aesthetic and technological advancement. Surrounded by rich silks and damask wall covering, her still life arrangements suggest 17th Century Dutch vanitas, and exploding with a sophisticated use of color.
Max de Esteban’s Proposition One: Only The Ephemeral, turns our attention to technology specifically utilized in the creation and dissemination of art. Through a meticulous process, he dis-assembles each apparatus, paints the various parts white, and reassembles the machines—photographing them at each stage of being re-built. The photographed layers are themselves assembled into a single image, resulting in x-ray-like photographs that are reminiscent of architectural cyanotypes.
The Nostalgia Technika project by guest artist, Rebecca Hackemann, consists of camera-less wet collodion photograms on metal, referencing cultural and personal nostalgia for lost technologies, centered around cultural tropes such as the homemade mixed cassette tape, the vinyl single, projected home movies etc. The artist uses an even older technical process to talk about a younger defunct technology. The photograms present the objects 1:1, reiterating their direct indexical link to the object imaged.
A Perfect Mum #4, 2012, © Miles Aldridge, courtesy of FaheyKlein Gallery, Los Angeles.jpg
Fahey/Klein Gallery | January 27, 2022 - March 19, 2022
The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present “Miles Aldridge: High-Gloss”, an exhibition of photographs and screenprints by renowned artist, Miles Aldridge. This exhibition features a selection of familiar and newly release images that, in pure Aldridge fashion, are glamorous – yet probe society’s idealized notions of domestic bliss, where sinister undercurrents swirl beneath a flawless surface. Miles Aldridge is a photographer who is well known for staging elaborate mise-en-scènes that have a film noir quality. The technicolor dream-like worlds he constructs are vibrant, fragmented narratives that defy expectations. Long interested in art history, his highly stylized work draws inspiration from representations of the female nude in art, as well as in pulp fiction and pin-ups. As Aldridge states:
“In my work there is always a push and pull between high and low art.”
Aldridge is a contemporary artist with a unique talent for inspiring the viewers to ask themselves questions. With a keen eye for social absurdities, disguising them in colorful beauty, and then elevating them to thought-provoking art Aldridge highlights a deep truth in his hyper-realities.
Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, printed 1960s
Gelatin silver print
Scheinbaum & Russek | February 4, 2022 - March 12, 2022
Scheinbaum & Russek is proud to be presenting an exhibition of photographs by Ansel Adams. The exhibition includes some of his early vintage works from the 1930s to a number of his most recognizable large format landscapes, as well as unique 4 x 5” Polaroids. The exhibition includes items of memorabilia from both Beaumont and Nancy Newhall’s estate and our own collections. We are excited to be sharing the work of one of the masters of the medium with our community.
