Michael Weinstein

The range of disciplined aesthetic effects that can be produced by cameraless photography are shown exquisitely by Myron Kozman and Allen Porter, two unjustly neglected experimentalists who worked at the Institute of Design sixty years ago. By brushing and dripping emulsion on photographic paper, Kozman created dense and dynamic deep-brown and white "chemical drawings" that anticipated the bold and teeming images of abstract-expressionist painting. By laying serpentine constructions of movie film on photographic paper, Porter created elegant black-and-white photograms that delight the eye with their airy and sportive twists and turns. Exploring the gamut of compositional possibilities within the parameters of his project, Parker moves from tumbling, intricate circular forms to sharp-edged linear and angular patterns that radiate vectors of force, always evoking the incredible brightness of being.

Myron Kozman and Allen Porter are showing at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 715 North Franklin, (312)642-8700, through December 21.

(2002-12-12)

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