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Krowswork

March 19 - May 8, 2011

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480 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612

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Ethan Turpin

Lux ex Machina: Chris Fraser, Michelle Kloehn, Ethan Turpin reception for the artists, March 19, 4-7 pm exhibition through May 7 Krowswork Gallery is pleased to present Lux ex Machina, featuring tintype photographs by Michelle Kloehn and site specific installations by Chris Fraser and by Ethan Turpin. These three artists are united by their individual investigations into light at its most fundamental and mysterious, using as their tools the physical machines of their respective trades: the photographic camera, the camera obscura, the video camera. Lux ex Machina, or light out of the machine, is a play on “deus ex machina,” a literary conceit in which a situation is resolved through seemingly divine intervention in the form of an unexpected character, plot twist, or equipment. In this exhibition, the conceit indicates a literal revealing of light through these mechanical inquiries at the same time it signals an arrival at a new aesthetic situation through almost inexplicable means.

Chris Fraser

Michelle Kloehn