Michael Weinstein

In an act of photographic justice, collector Jim Klein has been given a free hand to fill the gallery walls with photo-works that reflect his taste, which runs the gamut from contemporary postmodern experimentalists to straight shooters. Including strong images by such luminaries as Lee Friedlander, Alfredo Jaar, Joel Meyerowitz and Nic Nicosia, the show as a whole lacks a dominant theme, but has a bias betraying humanist social concern. On account of their theme and their overwhelming brutal grandeur, Meyorowitz's color shots of the devastation left in the wake of 9/11 dominate the other images which, however ingenious, elegant and witty they are, cannot rise to the sentiment of sublime seriousness evoked by the sight, against a black sky, of a garishly illuminated skyscraper with blasted windows, in one of which the stars and strips are threaded through the panes in coils of contorted agony.

"Significant Works Within Reach" shows at Schneider Gallery, 230 West Superior, (312)988-4033. Through July 23.

(2005-06-28)

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