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Chris Buck, Paul Hagedorn, Lisa Kereszi, Laura Noel and Landon Nordeman
Artist
Reception
and
Book
Signing,
Saturday,
January
12th
4-‐6
pm
Hagedorn
Foundation
Gallery
is
pleased
to
present
Traces
of
Myth,
a
group
exhibition
of
works
by
five
artists
that
reflects
on
the
effect
of
history
and
the
lure
of
narrative
in
our
understanding
and
valuation
of
physical
space.
The
show
includes
pieces
by
Chris
Buck,
Paul
Hagedorn,
Lisa
Kereszi,
Laura
Noel
and
Landon
Nordeman
and
will
be
on
view
from
December
4,
2012
through
January
26,
2013.
Myth
––
literally
“a
traditional
story,
which
embodies
and
provides
an
explanation,
aetiology,
or
justification
for
something
such
as
the
early
history
of
a
society,
a
religious
belief
or
ritual”
––
here
refers
to
how
each
of
these
artist’s
individual
images
are,
respectively,
traces
of
larger
cultural
identities.
The
paragraphs
below
explain
how
this
notion
is
traced
through
these
five
artists’
practices.
Chris
Buck
is
a
Canadian-‐born
photographer
living in
New
York.
The
images
from
his
series
Presence*
are
celebrity
portraits
in
which
the
celebrity
is
hidden
from
view
in
the
photograph’s
frame.
Tucked
behind
various
objects
that
are
visible
to
the
viewer,
it
is
important
for
Buck
that
the
celebrity
is
in
the
space
captured
in
the
photograph’s
frame,
yet
invisible
to
the
eye,
insisting
on
the
layers
of
narrative
depicted
in
a
given
space
and
a
photograph’s
capacity
to
determine
which
of
those
layers
are
imaged.
Nonetheless,
titling
the
works
with
the
celebrity’s
name
creates
an
instant
fetishization
of
the
space,
as
it
is
coded
with
the
presence
of
valued
cultural
icons;
such
as
Chuck
Close,
Robert
DeNiro,
NAS.
The
work
expands
one’s
understanding
of
subjectivity
to
encompass
the
environment
one
occupies
in
relation
to
the
individual.
Paul
Hagedorn
lives
and
works
in
Atlanta,
Georgia.
The
series
Buckhead
Lives
documents
the
destruction
of
a
certain
era
of
Buckhead’s
nightlife
that
alludes
to
the
cyclical
character
of
a
city:
one
community
wanes––socially
or
economically––
and
another
is
built
in
it’s
place,
choices
mutually
determined
by
the
state
and
it’s
citizens.
In
this
case
Hagedorn
documented
the
demolition
of
bars
like
Tongue
&
Groove,
Fado,
Lulu’s
Bait
Shack
and
Village
Grill.
These
establishments
were
removed
in
order
to
erect
new
developments
in
their
place,
a
new
era
and
new
aesthetic
both
of
which
the
images
point
to
in
a
series
that
can
be
read
alternately
as
promise,
hope
and
opportunity
or,
alternatively,
death
and
destruction.
Lisa
Keresz,
born
in
Pennsylvania
and
raised
in
suburban
Philadelphia
now
lives
in
New
Haven,
Connecticut.
Photographs
from
her
Fantasies*
series
scale
between
large
(40
x
50
inches)
and
small
(20
x
24
inches)
format
prints
in
the
densely
saturated
chromatic
spaces
that
construe
contemporary
strip
clubs,
movie
theaters
and
disco
bars.
This
piecemeal
understanding
of
fantastical
space
deconstructs
the
immersive
environment
while
maintaining
a
mix
of
chintz––
cheap,
scratched
mirrors
and
trim;
cracked
paint––
and
visual
pleasure–glowing
neon
greens
against
deep
black
tones;
blood
red
walls
ornately
embellished
with
slender
gold
painted
lines.
Simultaneously,
the
work
is
showing
and
unpacking
what
one
may
not
see
or
have
the
intuition
to
focus
on
in
the
fetished
space
of
entertainment
centers
where,
more
often
than
not
viewers
are
told–
–uncritically––
how
and
where
to
look.
Laura
Noel
lives
and
works
in
Atlanta,
Georgia.
Her
images,
from
the
series
Fictions,
show
the
memetic
relationship
between
people
and
spaces
through
shared
color
palettes
in
clothing
and
the
built
environment;
as
well
as
constructed
architectural
space
and
imported,
exotic
flora.
Amongst
the
nearly
twenty
images
which
comprise
the
series
Coaster,
Big
Chief
and
Dryer
are
exemplary
of
the
fact
that
these
photographs
are
not
produced
as
a
reflection
on
a
single
iconic
subject:
rather
Noel’s
photographs
reflect
on
the
way
in
which
our
identities
and
spaces
are
mutually
forming
across
a
broad
range
of
social
strata.
Landon
Nordeman
was
born
and
currently
works
in
New
York
City.
His
images
shed
a
journalistic
eye
on
spectacular
events
and
spaces
that
amplify
our
experience
of
these
moments:
freezing
them
in
time
for
a
shared
experience
that
asserts
recognizable,
universal
myths
in
contemporary
culture.
The
images
in
his
Time
Square
Now
series
are
snapshots
of
everyday
moments
at
“The
Crossroads
of
the
World”
an
amalgamated
mash
up
of
clashing
pedestrian
cultures
and
events
that
Nordeman’s
keen
eye
has
framed
in
a
series
of
eight
beautifully
composed
snapshots,
capitalizing
on
the
iconicity
of
Times
Squares’
visual
appearance
to
hold
together
this
incoherent
whole.
_____________________________
*Chris
Buck’s
full
series
is
comprised
of
fifty
portraits
and
is
published
as
a
book
by
Kehrer
Verlag.
In
the
monograph
a
signed
witness
form
is
displayed
across
from
each
plate,
verifying
that
each
sitting
took
place.
This
book
will
be
available
for
purchase
at
the
artists
reception.
*Lisa
Kereszi’s
Fantasies
series
was
published
by
Damiani
in
2008
with
fifty
five
color
reproductions.
As
Lynn
Tillman
so
succinctly
described,
these
images
reflect
on
how
“transgression
itself
becomes
etched
as
a
motif
in
the
adult
psyche.”
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