Two exhibitions exploring Chicago’s past and present
Michael Wolf: The Transparent City
Barbara Crane: Private Views
Opening Reception:
Thursday, November 12, 6:00–8:00 pm
Exhibitions on view:
November 7, 2009 – January 21, 2010
Aperture Gallery is pleased to present two simultaneous exhibitions exploring the city of Chicago from different vantage points and periods in history. While Michael Wolf’s large-scale color photographs of downtown Chicago’s buildings and their inhabitants examine public versus private space in the context of 21st-century urban life, Barbara Crane’s intimate Polaroids from the 1980s hone in on private human gestures performed in public at Chicago’s summer festivals. Both bodies of work reveal private moments that were intended to go unnoticed, each eliciting very different visceral responses from the viewer while evoking the voyeurism that permeates our culture today.
