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Artists David Enblom and Brendon Farley expose to the ever reconstructive Chi-Lake/Midtown area like Duchamp using a credit card in the Wild Wild West. Enblom’s thoroughly legitimate reproduction of one million dollars at 2/3rds scale falls somewhere between the bling of ye olde ‘hood and the ching of the Sears redevelopment. Farley’s severed trees float above themselves in a disconnected landscape, while next to them astronauts confront the native and not so native fauna of Westward expansionism. Recently arrived to Minnesota, Farley brings a plein-air oil sense to his miniature crumpled bag landscapes with delicate surface work that also acknowledges skipped
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Enblom and Farley will be up until July 16, 2005. The Shoebox Gallery is just to the right of 2948 Chicago Av S in Minneapolis. It is a storefront window in Roberts Shoes and is open for viewing on a 24 hr basis. Gallery info and contact maybe be had on the web at: http://www.mnartists.org/Shoebox_Gallery

Artists' Statements:

Farley: Simulations of nature like all representations reflect the values and ideologies of the culture that creates them. As an American I have an interest in the role that landscape painting and cartography had in the nation building of the United States. Early American landscape painters and cartographers knowingly or unknowingly were participating in the geopolitics of this country. The new world was represented as a clean slate, a virgin land, a new beginning. Throughout Euro-western history there has always been a belief in a land of paradise. From Arcadia, Utopia, the American dream, there has always been a belief in this mythical land. The myth of the American Dream is still evident in contemporary visual culture. My work explores this utopia, a land of paradise that will always be beyond our physical grasp.

Enblom:

I have been fascinated with grids and matrices for
many years, (initially influenced by Warhol). How it
is possible - and now by the use of computers, simple
- to make not only many things from one image, but
one thing made of many images.
From the book One Million Dots of 1992, through Heaven
, an installation of thousands of Buddhas in the
Material /Immaterial show at the Soap Factory in 1997,
to a currrent project: a series of volumes containing
200 million digits of pi, I continue to explore the
potential of a 2-dimensional surface and its almost
unlimited ability to portray complex relationships
between different levels of reality.
Although now concentrating on photography - itself a
serial medium - I enjoy reducing graphic symbols to
their most essential - a mark on a surface.

Reproduction of Currency

Authority: 18 UNITED STATES CODE; 504: Treasury
Directive Number 15-56 FR 48539 (September 15,1993)
411.1 Color illustrations authorized.

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 25 of
Title 18 of the U.S. Code, authority is hereby given
for the printing, publishing or importation, or the
making or importation of the necessary plates or items
for such printing or publication, of color
illustrations of U.S. currency provided that:

1. The illustration must be of a size less than
three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear
dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated;
2. The illustration must be one sided; and 3. All
negatives, plates, digitized storage medium, graphic
files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and
any other thing used in the making of the illustration
that contain an image of the illustration or any part
thereof shall be destroyed and or deleted or erased
after their final use in accordance with this section.

Bling Bling ya'll!

Photographer

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