Aimee Beaubien
Marvelli Gallery, New York
May 30 - June 30, 2002
Marvelli Gallery presents the first New York exhibition of Chicago artist Aimee Beaubien. In this debut show, she presents a series of new gelatin silver print photocollages, in which discrete female body parts kaleidoscope against dreamy-hued color fields.
Stacked, tangled or interlocking, the repeating torsos and limbs create complex forms that acknowledge their formal antecedents in H. Bellmer's idiosyncratic pupees and E.Weston's modernist photographs. Aimee Beaubien's manipulation of such surrealist strategies emancipates the female nude from the oppression of the male gaze while it pays homage to modernist experimentation.
Resolutely low-tech, the artist makes evident the hand cut lines in her prints and leaves the contours of her compositions ragged, creating a discomforting tension between the sharpness of the edges and the sinuous roundness of the interlocking female bodies.
MARVELLI GALLERY
526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
www.marvelligallery.com
