Michael Weinstein

Gifted with a thoughtful and sensitive eye, curator Aaron Ott has brought together four very different photographers, all of whom are more concerned with space itself than with what it contains. Gail Kaplan's pictorialist and atmospheric color shots of the tiny rooms that she constructs, Richard Koenig's playful color takes of interiors into which he has introduced photographic constructions of objects that are already there, Liz Cockrum's straight color images of the disappearing rural life of Kane County and Aaron Kleidon's black-and-white serial image of desolate facades in Cairo, Illinois all leave the viewer detached and with a sense of abandonment. It is Kleidon who best epitomizes the sensibility that integrates the exhibit; he forces us to look at, through, and beyond the remains of a past that has been eclipsed and made an anachronism by high technology.

"Subtle" shows at Flatfile Galleries, 217 North Carpenter, (312)491-1190, through June 16. (2006-05-16)

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