 Untitled (Alicia in the Pool), 2006 C-print, 40 x 50 inches Angela Strassheim Pause Marvelli Gallery is pleased to present "Pause," the second solo exhibition of American artist Angela Strassheim. The exhibition will feature twenty new color photographs. These photographs capture a significant moment in the passage of time for each of the girls and women in the pictures. Occurring in different stages of their lives, these moments are somehow crucial, and seem to summarize and anticipate a chain of events. An important role emerges clearly for all the girls and women in these pictures: being a daughter. They all struggle with this role and its high expectations. They strive for affirmation and recognition. And yet, often they fail to live up to these expectations and to embody the perfect daughter. The parents who appear in these pictures are sometimes loving, sometimes apprehensive and judgmental. They - in particular the male presence of the father - are implicit in most of the pictures. With their balance between reality and artifice, Angela Strassheim's pictures are specific in details but broad in their scope. Their uncanny sharpness, meticulous composition and careful lighting achieve what Michael Kimmelman described in the New York Times as "surreal pictures, candy colored and strangely loving". Angela Strassheim received her MFA in photography from Yale University in 2003 and a Forensic & Biomedical Photography Certification from the Forensic Imaging Bureau, Miami. Since her first solo show at Marvelli Gallery in 2005, her work has received a great deal of attention. She has exhibited at the Musée de l'Elysée in Switzerland, the Noorderlicht Fotofestival in the Netherlands, and the Aperture Foundation in New York. Her photographs were one of the highlights of the 2006 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum, New York. A comprehensive exhibition of the series "Left Behind" will open at Grinnell College, Iowa, in October and a hardcover monograph with an essay by Jean Dykstra will be published on that occasion. Exhibition: October 20 - December 22, 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 10 am - 6 pm Other times by appointment. Marvelli Gallery 526 West 26th Street Second Floor USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 627 3363 Fax +1 212 627 3368 Email info@marvelligallery.com www.marvelligallery.com |
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