Michael Weinstein

Among the twelve gifted artists selected for this show from Catherine Edelman's online gallery of emerging Chicago photographers, Gregory Scott stands out with his relentlessly postmodern self-portraits. Scott paints portraits of himself, puts them in a room where he poses with them and then shoots the resulting scenes in black and white. In his most genial image, a painted Scott kneels on a couch staring intently and anxiously at an actual mirror affixed to the painted wall in which the actual artist's outsized visage stares down at him with cool scrutiny. If Scott's playful and paradoxical inversions of image and reality seem too mind-boggling, look at Paul Clark's wildly elegant abstractions of tangled tomato cages against pure white snowfalls, which prove that austere straight modernism can match postmodern extravagance in spinning around perception.

"The Portrait" shows at Catherine Edelman Gallery, 300 West Superior, (312)266-2350, through September 2.

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