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Email PageDoubletake
May 18, 2006- June 24, 2006
Susan Graham, Alison Jackson, Simen Johan, Walter Martin & Paloma Muņoz, Caroline McCarthy, Jason and Carlos Sanchez, Wendy Small, Nick Waplington
Schroeder Romero
637 W 27th St Jason and Carlos Sanchez Pink Bathroom |  Caroline McCarthy Still Life (2003) |  Susan Graham Big Storm 1 (2005) |
 Alison Jackson Bush at Target Practice (2004) |
Susan Graham's photographs are based on crude stagings of her sugar sculptures depicting dreamlike landscapes void of people, filled instead with satellites, airplanes, radio towers and tornados. This imagery juxtaposes sweetness and beauty with ethereal states and, occasionally, disturbing activities.
Alison Jackson employs celebrity and public figure look-alikes to create seemingly real documentary scenarios which are in fact fiction. Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable.
Uncommonly imaginative and determined children whose actions and play occur primarily at night and in solitude populate Simen Johan's black and white photographs.
Walter Martin & Paloma Muņoz are subverting the conventions of the snowglobe in their works. The images conjure up sincere dread for what might be pervading in these little worlds. The wilderness is the main character - the trees and rocks bear silent witness to the miseries and bizarre doings while the ever present drifting snow promises to cover everything in a blanket of white.
Caroline McCarthy explores situations that often are so familiar they go unnoticed. Photographs of still lifes made from wet, colored toilet paper investigate consumerism, implying scatological undertones while at the same time reference art historical frameworks that critique the gallery context.
Eerie tableaus that explore psychological landscapes are the focus of Carlos and Jason Sanchez' works. Cinematic in scope and compelling in content, the plot is condensed into its most salient or important moment. Rejecting the notion of the pure innocence of childhood and instead present the dark and often inappropriate desires of their young protagonists.
Wendy Small's unique photograms are made by placing recognizable objects onto the photo paper and exposing them to light. She creates landscapes of flowering fields visited by butterflies and dragonflies, but the flowering objects depicted are actually French tickler condoms.
Nick Waplington is known for creating series of startling vignettes dealing with the absurd, irrational and humorous nature of everyday domesticity. His photographs challenge the viewer to reassess their personal dealings with the mechanics of shared environments and creates a fusion of photography and the detritus of a shared cultural past.
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