Last Chance

Catch it or Regret It

by Nadia Stadnycki

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Published: Apr 16, 2008

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Using an old Deardorff camera, photographer Rick Smith captured post-Katrina New Orleans during Mardi Gras of 2006. The black-and-white images show families rebuilding houses, close-ups of distraught faces and a boat stranded in the middle of a street. Because the camera took more than 10 minutes to set up and frame, Smith developed relationships with his subjects, and is currently still in contact with each of them.

A meditation on loss and finding hope in failure, Mike McGovern and Tyler Kline's installation (pictured) includes a massive tribute to Edgar Allan Poe and his struggles with spirituality. The artists painted three large images of Poe's face, looking left, right and straight on. Long neon strings are nailed to his eyes and slung over rafters, suspending several foil sculptures of angelic figures in midair.

Artists Anne Boysen, Jim Condron and Amy Evans all focus on nature, but the similarity ends there. Boysen's use of detail in her floral still lifes is minimal; she represents flowers with colorful blobs, and leaves and stems with green strokes exploding outward from the vase. Condron's abstract paintings are full of quiet wilderness scenes in dark colors. In each of her pieces, Evans reversed and repeated one image of the outdoors several times to create an extended version of foggy terrain.

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