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May
02, 2011
Review: Suzy Poling/Zg Gallery
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Occupying a highly specialized niche of natural-beauty photography,
Suzy Poling’s luscious color images of geysers in Yellowstone
Park have the eerie and disquieting yet seductive feel of
scenes of shimmering sites of environmental pollution and devastation,
wrought by mines in the western desert. Stark color dominates among
the photographic values that Poling achieves; her palette emphasizes
earthen oranges, reddish browns, light purples, roiling blues and
yellowish greens that bleed over the land and scar it, painting it in
unfamiliar and threatening hues. Poling’s studies fascinate, yet their
colors and irregular shapes make them border on the sublime,
introducing us to aspects of nature that are alien to our sense of and
quest for comfort, tranquility and
harmony, or even of our taste for
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As one
visitor to the show said as he quickly left, “These photographs seem
to come from another planet.” They remind us that the world is neither
made for nor belongs to our species. (Michael Weinstein) |
Suzy Poling, "Bacteria Mat #3"
archival pigment print, 2011 |
Through June 25 at
Zg Gallery, 300 West Superior |
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Harper's Magazine,
pg. 15, January, 2010 |
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The Week,
vol.7, issue 319, pg. 26,
July 20, 2007 |
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flavorpill
CHI | NYC | SF | LA
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LONDON
June 26 - July 2, 2007
Cultural Stimuli in CHI
Issue : flavor
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In
her latest exhibition, photographer Suzy Poling documents derelict
institutions and places of abandonment. Wonderland of Decay
lingers in the empty hallways of a mental hospital, recording the
shredded insulation, piles of discarded test tubes, and peeling paint
of candy-colored walls left after years of disuse. The second series,
Dead Amusements, captures upended bumper cars, faded signs, and
rusting carnival rides in
a backwoods American theme park. These two suites are so aesthetically
lavish, elegantly composed, and bathed in cool light, that one could
almost overlook the heaviness of the spaces themselves, decaying
landscapes seething with melancholy and an eerie intensity. (AMM) |
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Chicago Sun Times,
Weekend sec., pg. 17, June 15, 2007 |
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Chicago Tribune,
Sec. 7, pg. 24, June 15, 2007 |
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New City,
pg. 18, June 14, 2007 |
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