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Tomorrow: Psychodrama

September 11, 2008

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The after party for the opening is at Wang’s as you already know.

Z. Whittenburg for Flavorpill:

In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan Jill Frank, nodding both to Cindy Sherman and Gillian Wearing, flips the script, creating vivid tableaux of traumatic moments in her subjects’ lives. She combines the documentary assumptions of photography with the subjective fog of memory, but what truly distinguishes Psychodrama is her cinematographer’s eye for suspense; the intensity of what’s about to happen, or just did, depends upon the perversity of the viewer. Its oddly fitting that Golden’s inaugural exhibition is an initimate examination of the past.

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THAW Giving Chills

February 6, 2008
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*Samia Mirza, Conjoined Snowmen (We all Fall Down), 2007

The current exhibition, THAW, at estudiotres gallery in Andersonville has a great show of hot new artists.

Samia Mirza is always worth seeing and I blog about her work at www.artinthepresent.blogspot.com. But two other young queer artists really shine in this show.

A wall of photographs from Davin Youngs are sexy and definitely a site. The photographs blur the line between snap shots and fashion photography, they capture on the care-free scrap-book aesthetic that was championed by legendary Nan Goldin. But Youngs has put his own quirky, somehow shy spin on these snapshots of friends, family and himself.

Rob Bondgren is a queer multi-media artist, who handles his water color beautifully. Water color is one of the most difficult forms of painting because the artists must act quickly and from the gut. The
paint dries quickly and there is no way to “paint over” mistakes. Bondgren’s loose and free paintings emphasize the essence of water color paintings– pure liquid joy, holding nothing back and adding
nothing extra.

–Justin Polera

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