Place

Steven Criqui
John Divola
Pam Goldblum + Jeff Kaisershot
Karin Apollonia Muller
Robert Olsen
John Pearson
Patrick Wilson

September - October 10, 2003

Certain impressions have been left by the real things around you upon the paintings and photographs of Steven Criqui, John Divola, Pam Goldblum + Jeff Kaisershot, Karen Apollonia Muller, Robert Olsen, John Pearson, and Patrick Wilson. A car, a vase, a skyline; these sights are familiar as generalities, and sometimes specifically, as in a Criqui painting of a bar in you part of town where madly inappropriate shapes and colors sharply emerge. Or a Muller photograph of buildings you drive by daily, though the vantage point is peculiarly high. The images these artists represent are often banal, emerging through fluent techniques to speak in understanding ways. Rather than seeking sanctuary from the real, these works find quirks in the commonplace, allowing little punctuations to interrupt, redirect, or complete the place you presume neutral through bored overuse, the place you call home, work, avenue, city. These artists have taken another look to find a world within complacent expectation. Their works ask you to do the same.
Malik Gaines