Featured Book: Susan Mikula, Photographs, 2008
Luxxus Press is pleased to announce the publication of “Susan Mikula, Photographs, 2008″ – a monograph of recent work released in conjunction with her NYC gallery show “sic transit” at CHC Gallery in Chelsea.
Featuring sixteen color plates from the “sic transit” series, six from the “Pier 40″ series and five from the “Kidder Farm” series, this is the most recent of ten years of work created with modified Polaroid cameras and films, in which Mikula brings an almost 19th century technique to 20th century technology, to create a 21st century aesthetic all her own.
Mysterious yet familiar, Mikula’s images draw you in. The painter Kaye Mahoney writes in her introductory essay of how “the stillness of these pieces invites us to dwell while we are contemporaneously transported into the realm of the mind,” while poet Jill McDonough writes in her foreword of how the images feel “cinematic, almost recognizable … their softened edges end up feeling like a single line drawn a hundred times by a hundred different hands …” As much a study of light and time itself as of their putative subjects, these works richly reward however much time we, as viewers, are willing to give.
Posted by admin on December 19th, 2008 :: Filed under Uncategorized
