Just Do It

Interstices: New Photographic Works

by Joel Tannenbaum

Opening reception Sat., Oct. 11, 6-10 p.m., runs through Oct. 31, FLUXSpace, 3000 N. Hope St., thefluxspace.org

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Coming off the success of Fringe's FLUXTask 2, a live collaboration with Oliver Herring involving hundreds of participants, FLUX now presents a challenging show curated by artist and scholar Thomas Zummer. Interstices features work by Sherry Millner, Leslie Thornton and Carolien Stikker — and when you strip away the layers of discourse Zummer has used to scaffold the artists' work, you find some pretty interesting interpretations of photography.

Millner, whose work is pictured, is basically a collagist, mixing and matching segments of family snapshots and old postcards and then rephotographing them. Filmmaker and Brown prof Thornton's past work has, at times, recalled the narrative photography of Hannah Starkey and the cinematic portraiture of Cindy Sherman. The work of Dutch photographer and filmmaker Stikker provides a fascinating counterpoint: beautifully distorted and color-saturated landscapes. Additionally, some film and projection work from the artists and their collaborators will be on hand.