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Far Away
The show was reviewed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Friday! We walked down to the Kwik Trip in Manitowoc to pick up copy. There amidst the cheap bananas and gallons of milk, we felt far away from the gleaming white Calatrava. The Kwik Trip offers its own gleaming white architectural elements and neat stacks of blue windshield wash that are equally transcendent. It was odd to see our portrait of the Revenal sisters, who we photographed in our studio in 1995, on the cover of the “Cue” section while standing in line at the Kwik Trip in 2008. A strange feedback loop. Hopefully Mary Louise Schumacher’s coverage will tempt people from around Wisconsin to take a crisp autumn day off and drive to the MAM to look at art. We can only hope. There have been several other thoughtful reviews of the show posted online in the couple weeks and we are grateful. Vital Source did a nicely contemplative piece as did the Artsy Smartsy blog, the Shepherd Express, and WUWM.
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Ted McDermott wrote in The Believer magazine in 2006 about photgrapher Ralph Eugene Meatyard (featured in the exhibition):
“By retaining so many of vernacular photography’s characteristic elements, he proclaims that these are glimpses of fuller stories, but he does not, as an aunt showing us her photo album would, tell us what they are. And so we, looking at these unusual pictures and knowing nothing about the stories they reference, are left to discover them for ourselves.”
Indeed, I’ve quite enjoyed discovering these pictures for myself!
–John Eding, Milwaukee Art Museum