Ewan Schwartz: Reclaiming Puberty Series, 2004 Digital C-print mounted on masonite, 24 x 30 in. Ewan Schwartz Reclaiming Puberty Series Michael Waugh INAUGURAL-2005 Schroeder Romero is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions: "Reclaiming Puberty Series" by Evan Schwartz in the Main Gallery and "Inaugural-2005" by Michael Waugh in the Project Gallery. Evan Schwartz was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1982 under a different name and gender. His new photography series "Reclaiming Puberty", is a maturing timeline about growing up as a girl into a man. Through this self-exploration of gender and sexuality, Schwartz painfully discovers that in order to become the man he's always wanted to be, he must go through the perils of adolescent boyhood first - after already experiencing adolescence as a girl. Schwartz' fascination in psychology spurred his interest in photography at a young age and more recently, he has been exploring the world of narrative photography and self-portraiture to better understand his own transformation. Evan Schwartz came out as a transgender male in January of 2003 and recently underwent a double mastectomy and is taking hormones to match body with identity. "Reclaiming Puberty Series" evolves along with his body and experiences. Schwartz moved to New York, after a brief stay in Israel, in 2001 where he studies photography at Pratt Institute. He has been published in L.A. Ruocco's Xero under his given name and is in Yeshiva University's permanent collection. This is his first solo exhibition.
Michael Waugh: Heading West, Heading East, 2004 Ink, Aquarelle on paper, 26 x 44 1/2 in. On the occasion of George Bush's Inauguration, Schroeder Romero is pleased to present new text-drawings and watercolors by Michael Waugh in the Project Gallery. Visually beautiful from a distance, on closer examination the drawings offer an obsessive re-working of historical texts. Each of the drawings incorporates thousands of words written in fine ink filigree across the page. Three of the drawings utilize text from all previous United States presidents' inaugural speeches, collapsing history into a single, historical moment. A final drawing incorporates text and images taken from a moralistic WWII era book about the US military - along with versions of those texts and images manipulated by the artist. Through these painstaking reconfigurations, the intended meaning of the original sources becomes subverted, and one is left with a delicate but disturbing meditation on the nature of history, rhetoric, and the morality of authority. Michael Waugh's work was included in the recent group exhibitions "Face/Off" at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, and the Terminal 5 exhibition at JFK airport. He received his Masters in Studio Art from New York University in 2000 and is currently on faculty at NYU and the New School University. Exhibition: January 7 - February 14, 2005 Gallery hours: Fri-Mon, 12 - 6 pm and by appointment Schroeder Romero Gallery 173A North 3rd St USA-Williamsburg, Brooklyn Telephone +1 718 486-8992 Email lisa@schroederromero.com www.schroederromero.com |
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