Staged - A group photography show at Michele Mosko Fine Art October 30, 2009

STAGED,
A GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW AT MICHELE MOSKO FINE ART
October 30 – January 9
Artist Reception, Thursday, November 12th 5-8 pm

Michele Mosko Fine Art announces a group exhibition of photo-based art in which every image shown has been re-designed, posed, manipulated, contrived or altered. The exhibiting artists each approach their craft in a unique manner; taking recognizable environments and people in their existing worlds and re-creating them.

Angelika Rinnhofer’s artworks examine the drama of Renaissance and Baroque painting through photography. Her most recent series “Varsity Girls” are stylized studies of high school athletes, posing in uniforms and in a traditional and idealized style. On closer look, these period studies reveal a different kind of portrait; young women who wear the angst of transitioning through adolescence.

Thomas Allen’s scenic artworks are derived from paperback novels. The artist cuts apart the cover illustrations of pulp-fiction literature to create dioramas that serve as his subject matter. His 2-dimensional photographs engage the viewer to become part of the drama, intrigue, and kitsch imagery that takes on a new and super-real format.

Unlike the other artists in this show, Steven Schkolne alters his works after the initial photograph has been taken. He shoots his un-knowing subjects and by way of a computer process that is uniquely his own, creates a new medium. “Painting” with his own software, Schkolne alters the physical presence of his subjects as his surface evolves from photography to painting. His faceless actors are part of a world that demonstrates the anonymity of man.

Additional artists in this exhibition include Jill Greenberg, Jenny Gummersall, Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida, Martin Klimas, David Levinthal, Dale O’Dell, and Jimmy Sellars.

Additional jpegs available upon request.
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