Free Rein / Full Play

New Chicago Photography
February 16 – March 31, 2007

Free Rein / Full Play is an exhibition that attempts to capture a particular energy, with a combination of fantasy and performance, whether it utilize the body, object, or material. Although each work maintains its conceptual individuality, this association of freedom and playfulness produces a common uninhibited conceptual approach, which is enhanced by the photographic medium. Lassaw also suggests: “The artist no longer feels that he is ‘representing reality,’ he is actually making reality… Reality is something stranger and greater than merely photographic rendering can show.” This is apparent in the collection of works by these artists, each of them produces images that in some ways, reveals a subconscious effort at Lassaw’s idea of a “new reality”.

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