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This Friday at CHC Gallery (511 West 20th Street), part-time New Yorker and full-time photographer Susan Mikula will unveil her solo exhibition titled "sic transit," which exploits "the idiosyncrasies of a Polaroid camera." The photographer comments on her work saying, “I'm obsessed with the passing of time and the way light changes. When I've done what I set out to accomplish in a photograph, I have preserved the skipping and floating and grinding of time.”
Rachel Maddow, of MSNBC and Air America, also chimes in and invites you all out to the opening this week via her Twitter (Mikula is her longtime girlfriend). She notes: “Susan's abstract visions are familiar enough to make you worry she might have gotten into your head and stolen your memories -- she can make you feel reminded of things you've never done.”
All of Mikula's prints at the show originate from her vintage Polaroid shots; learn more here.
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"When I've done what I set out to accomplish in a photograph, I have preserved the skipping and floating and grinding of time.”
gothamist has accomplished giving me a headache, thanks for posting these blurry pictures.
Self taught artist? ugh. and being Rachel Maddows girlfriend has nothing to do with getting a show in a Chelsea gallery.
and it sucks BTW.
Terrible.
Even worse than RatherBe's stuff.
"Experiments" = FAIL
Am I in a stable? Because all I see is horse shit
(don't get me wrong. I love when Gothamist covers the arts. But this... this 'art' is just sad, empty, deplorable posturing)
I could've done this with an empty building and messing with the focus on my camera...doesn't look too special.
Mmm. Muffins...
A friend of mine takes really cool polaroid photos. If you want to believe in the format again, check out her photos here:
Pigeon Fight
this has been done to death. a few years ago, maybe seven or more, there was a female "photographer" whose name i cannot recall or care to remember who did these sorts of things and got some modicum of fame- gallery shows and books and whatnot. but her time is up already.
to present these now by another "artist" looks just "out of focus", or blase or not trying at all.
#9 Kyle: those are awesome.
I could have seen more but I was able to chew through the restraints.
i love rachel... but these are desperately uninteresting.
Gothamist continues to not be my source for art news. What garbage.
Crap
As an artist, I would have to call bullshit. Sorry.
I love art photography, but this is shit.
...if these "idiosyncrasies of a Polaroid camera" were crap, it would fill-in the east river...
So rarely can everyone agree on something.
I used a Polorid camera in the late 70's and early '80s, but that one took pictures in focus.
Hah!
There are artists, and then there's someone trying to sell something. That's not to say the two can't be the same person in some cases. I'm an artist myself, and I know where the line is with my own work.
This person is probably looking for idiots to help her bank account become recession-proof. She has the media connections obviously, maybe deluded as well, and if not, just completely lacking integrity.
Looks like a realtor that doesn't know how to use a camera, taking photos of an empty apartment to put on craigslist.
I don't blame this woman for using her girlfriend to gain some sort of credibility since I don't think her work could do it in its own right. That being said, I think Maddow should just stick to current events.
Come on! and there's an exhibition for this??
She should burn her camera
People should stop being jealous- I just walked by the gallery and it looks pretty cool. They didn't write the medium but the chc gallery website says they are Digital Duraflex prints face-mounted to plexi.
Ah, nice to see such civility and open mindedness among so called artists. Give her a chance.
Does this woman who pretends to be an artist live in Williamsburg by any chance? If she does, then that explains it.
OOOHHHH my lord I am an artist and never knew it...I have been making pictures like this for years....where should I sell them?