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Indepth Arts News:
"Rocky Schenck: Los Angeles"
2008-01-26 until 2008-03-01
M + B
Los Angeles, CA,
USA United States of America
M+B is pleased to announce the exhibition ROCKY SCHENCK: LOS ANGELES from January 26 – March 1, 2008. Schenck’s work has taken him on explorations across America and Europe to capture his compelling and seductive images. But in his first exhibition at M+B, Schenck focused on the aura of the city that surrounds us. Rocky Schencks work lies somewhere between our greatest fantasies and our worst fears. His pieces are consumed by a darkness that is as romantic as it is dangerous. Lurking around deserted landscapes, backyard porches, forgotten highways and abandoned ponds, Schenck travels the world searching for the obscure and mysterious, a world reminiscent of a modern-day Diane Arbus.
In his recent work, Schenck takes us to theatre stages, cornfields and burning brush, constantly searching for places he can reinvent. Once captured, he manipulates, tones and paints his images until they achieve specific moods. Its these raw emotions that separate his work from all other photographs being produced today. Through his images, we travel into shadows that are as comforting as they are dangerous. In Schencks world, we are both at ease and at attention—a rare feeling experienced by art today.
According to John Berendt in his forward for Schenck’s monograph, Rocky Schenck: Photographs (2003), “each photograph is like a still taken from a movie that exists not on film but rather in one’s memory, with all the fuzziness typical of remembered impressions.” Berendt goes on to compare Schenck’s style as reminiscent of certain aspects of the deeply psychological Edvard Munch, as well as comparing Schenck’s ability to capture the loneliness of the world like Edward Hopper. And in their review of Schenck’s last exhibition, Artnews described his work as mysteriously foreboding, as though Edgar Allan Poe might have conceived it.
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