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Email PageA Text, a Fiction, a Fissured Envelope
January 8, 2008- February 2, 2008
Reception: January 10, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Lauren Simkin Berke
A.I.R. Gallery
511 W 25th StA.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce 2007-2008 Fellowship Recipient, Lauren Simkin Berke’s first solo exhibition, A Text, a Fiction, a Fissured Envelope. The exhibition will be on view from January 8 – February 2, 2007 with an opening reception on Thursday, January 10th, from 6–8 PM. On Saturday, January 19th from 2pm to 6pm, the artist will be hosting "Outside the white box: a mailable art workshop." The workshop and presentation is free and open to the public.
As source materials for her drawings, paintings and prints, Lauren Simkin Berke makes use of studio portraits and amateur snap shots due to an interest in the intimacy in the anonymous images. Varying in tone from humorous to poignant, the vivid orange, green and blue house paint used on the largest works and applied in bright fields of color separate the final pieces from their faded black and white origins. Unlike photorealists, Berke consciously highlights subtly gestures in human relationships and makes certain erasures to emphasize these details.
The exhibition’s title refers to Roland Barthes, Pleasure of the Text: “I make myself a voyeur: observe clandestinely the pleasures of others, I enter perversions; the commentary then becomes a text, a fiction, a fissured envelope.” Here, the artist takes on the role of the writer. Berke writes of her own work: “Every day I draw in my sketchbook from a photograph purchased at a flea market, if not a personal family photo. I then use a variety of processes, xerox transfers, digital printing on painted paper and etching to have my drawings interact with various surfaces and colors.”
Lauren Simkin Berke received her MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her illustrations have been printed in a wide range of publications including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Bitch Magazine, and the Boston Globe. Berke’s work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in New York City at P.P.O.W., A.I.R. Gallery and McCaig Wells Gallery, and in Chicago at WomenMade Gallery and Gescheidle among others.
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