Michael Weinstein

You've been where Jamie Lyn Mitchell stands with her camera, when you were a kid on a boring day, staring at things abstractedly and watching them stare back at you. Mitchell's color shots of nondescript interiors and empty suburban streets are too formally composed and too bleached and faded--although they are often garishly lit--to be random fixations; they are documents of an alienated sensibility. That's the first take, but linger with these images a little longer and you will begin to get lost in their surprising range of subtle, shifting colors. The child has suddenly become an aesthete, relishing in an ordinary lamp, with a tilted white accordion shade and a glowing amber base, sitting on a simple wooden table, shot against a dusty mauve wall dappled with patches of light and modestly exhibiting a wondrous range of hues.

Jamie Lyn Mitchell's photographs are showing at Standard Gallery, 1437 North Bosworth, (773)486-1005, through December 14.

(2002-12-04)

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