Michael Weinstein

Although Paris and New York dominated modernist photography in the public eye, Chicago produced masters equal in their experimental verve and intensity to any of the luminaries in the canon. Starting with common roots in 1930s street photography, Nathan Lerner and Edmund Teske branched off towards divergent limits of their medium, with Lerner venturing into dynamic and stunning abstraction and Teske exploring the inner recesses of surrealism. Both of these longtime friends reached the limits of their chosen directions, so neither one dominates this show, which was sensitively and expertly curated by Paul Berlanga. Look at Lerner's "Light Box Study" with its cosmos of wild criss-crossing white lines shooting through a profusion of star-like dots, and then turn to Teske's double exposure of a haunting impassive goddess in the sky presiding over a street scene in Davenport, Iowa; you will grasp the parameters of perception.

Nathan Lerner and Edmund Teske show at Stephen Daiter Gallery, 311 West Superior, (312)787-3350, through July 30.

(2005-07-05)

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