M+B is pleased to announce an exhibition of new color photographs, The Black Eye, by Israeli artist Michal Chelbin. Chelbin’s photographs of young Eastern European wrestlers evoke both Diane Arbus and Mary Ellen Clark, inhabiting a world between fiction and documentary as they explore the complex relationship between the subject’s captured gaze and presence.  Her first exhibition on the West Coast in six years, the opening reception for the artist on Saturday, October 23 from 6 to 8pm will include a book signing for Chelbin’s recently published monograph of the same name by Twin Palms Publishers. The exhibition runs from October 23 to December 5, 2010.

The full press release is attached below, as well as in the body of the email. If you have any questions or need hi-res images, please do not hesitate to contact me.