Canadian Artist Robert Berlin to Exhibit New Photographs at Gallery KH in Chicago

April 10, 2011 - PRLog -- Robert Berlin: After/Image
Opening cocktail reception: Friday, April 15, 2011 5-8PM

Gallery KH is pleased to present After/Image a new collection of vibrant photographs by the artist Robert Berlin.  After/Image opens April 15, 2011 through June 1, 2011.   An opening night cocktail reception is scheduled for Friday, April 15, 5-8PM. All gallery events are free and open to the public.

Canadian artist Berlin’s After/Image explores vestiges of motion; obscure, fleeting nuances of ritual and ceremony  - from Seville to Bali to Siem Reap, photo-artist Berlin explores the synergy and abstraction found in captured movement, blurred color and shadowed form.

On  aluminum plates and Plexi glass, Berlin records written and painted traces, the social and spiritual graffiti of shrouded cultures.  Isolated fragments from diverse communities, dislocated from their sources and almost abstract in their presentation, provide an unusual narrative. For Berlin, these fragments become an iconographic vocabulary that is foreign and distant, yet compelling and intimate.

“Rudolf Arnheim once wrote:  ‘whereas the painter invents, the photographer discovers...’ In my work I seek to transcend the traditional definitions.  I paint through my photography and I photograph from a painter’s viewpoint so that hopefully the result is neither painting nor photography but something else, ambiguously perched, precariously, between the two mediums,” states the artist.

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Located in the heart of Chicago’s River North Arts District, Gallery KH presents an outstanding collection of significant contemporary artists working in a variety of styles and media. www.gallerykh.com or call 1-312-642-0202