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Indepth Arts News: "Natural History: Group Show" 2002-05-03 until 2002-06-01 Aron Packer Gallery Chicago, IL, USA United States of America
The Natural History Museum has been around for years in various states and forms. From Cabinets of Curiosities (usually cases with samples of dead specimens preserved in formaldehyde, with early examples documented as early as 1500 A.D. in the courts of Italian princes), to the mostly now forgotten roadside museum,
to the current mausoleums of things past and gone, with Chicago's Field Museum being one of the biggest, if not the best in the country. These museums cast wide nets in terms of the influence they have had on art and artists in contemporary culture.
Aron Packer Gallery is pleased to present a small survey of some of the artists working in relation to this genre locally, nationally, and internationally.
The gallery transforms into a curiosity cabinet of its own, finding connections and relationships among various works, playing off ideas of specimen and artifact, and categorization and presentation.
Some artists worth noting are:
Lynne Brown - Close-up Photographs of jar specimens of indiscriminant origin
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