Proof of Concept

Lisa M Robinson at Klompching Gallery

Dave Hickey sited September 11th as the official death of post-modernism. For several years there has been speculation in academic circles on the nature and name of our currently cultural zeitgeist.

Anyone walking into Klompching Gallery this month with this question would conclude that we have entered a hybrid of minimalism and sublime romanticism. Lisa M Robinson's finest snowscapes present a placid, breathtaking flatness. Robinson's camera compresses the austere beauty of the winter with the traces of suburbia left to weather the elements. The resulting beauty of vast impenetrable fields of white also courts a comparable vacancy of content, that left me cold. Snowbound presents the aesthetics of minimalism, but in this new century, it is a style that has lost the original political and aesthetic context.

On view at Klompching Gallery
111 Front St Suite 206
DUMBO Brooklyn, NY

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