The show's directive is in the title. Every work in Look Again is not what it first appears to be. Ed Bateman's photographs look like Victorian daguerreotypes — they were made last year. Mike Libby's insect specimens look like clockwork automata from a natural history cabinet — the gears are antique but the beetles are real. Richard Stein's paintings look like geometric abstraction — they are aerial photographs of California farm fields rendered in oil.
The Wunderkammer tradition — the 16th century cabinet of wonders that preceded both the art museum and the natural history museum — brought together objects that blurred the line between nature and artifice, science and magic, the found and the made. These three artists are working in exactly that space. Look Again is the invitation to slow down and see what's actually there.
Register for Look Again — October 2. Ed Bateman, Mike Libby, Richard Stein. Work that is not what it first appears to be. The most surprising show of the year.
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