Canadian Artist Robert Berlin to Exhibit New Photographs at Gallery KH in Chicago
Summary
On aluminum plates and Plexi glass, Berlin records written and painted traces, the social and spiritual graffiti of shrouded cultures.Isolated fragments from diverse communities, dislocated from their sources and almost abstract in their presentation, provide an unusual narrative.All gallery events are free and open to the public.Canadian artist Berlin’s After/Image explores vestiges of motion; obscure, fleeting nuances of ritual and ceremony - from Seville to Bali to Siem Reap, photo-artist Berlin explores the synergy and abstraction found in captured movement, blurred color and shadowed form.On aluminum plates and Plexi glass, Berlin records written and painted traces, the social and spiritual graffiti of shrouded cultures.For Berlin, these fragments become an iconographic vocabulary that is foreign and distant, yet compelling and intimate.“Rudolf Arnheim once wrote: ‘whereas the painter invents, the photographer discovers...’ In my work I seek to transcend the traditional definitions.I paint through my photography and I photograph from a painter’s viewpoint so that hopefully the result is neither painting nor photography but something else, ambiguously perched, precariously, between the two mediums,” states the artist.About Gallery KHLocated in the heart of Chicago’s River North Arts District, Gallery KH presents an outstanding collection of significant contemporary artists working in a variety of styles and media.