A text, a fiction, a fissured envelope
Lauren Simkin Berke

January 8 – February 2, 2007

As source materials for her drawings, paintings and prints, Lauren Simkin Berke makes use of studio portraits and amateur snap shots due to an interest in the intimacy in the anonymous images. Varying in tone from humorous to poignant, the vivid orange, green and blue house paint used on the largest works and applied in bright fields of color separate the final pieces from their faded black and white origins. Unlike photorealists, Berke consciously highlights subtly gestures in human relationships and makes certain erasures to emphasize these details.

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