Greg Stimac

Opening Reception: March 23, 2007

BUCKET RIDER GALLERY begins the spring season with new photographs by Greg Stimac in Gallery One and new paintings by Anna Bjerger in Gallery Two.

Chicago, IL, March 23, 2007 Bucket Rider welcomes the spring season with an exhibition of new photographs by Greg Stimac entitled Mowing the Lawn. Running concurrently in our second gallery is Portrait of a Man, a series of new paintings by Anna Bjerger. The show opens Friday, March 23rd with an artists reception from 6 to 9 pm, and continues through April 28th.

Chicago-based photographer Greg Stimac exhibits his latest body of work, Mowing the Lawn in Gallery One. Born in Ohio, Stimac received his BFA from Columbia College. He has traveled throughout the country to document the complex beauty of humanity; investigating the ways we organize and validate our lives, from moments of intense, involved crisis to those of daily routine. With Mowing the Lawn, Stimac has taken the very practical yet mundane (and uniquely American) practice of cutting the grass as the constant to examine the variety of ways we react to the world at large. Our desire to remain in control and keep our residence kempt reveals much about who we are. In these images, he has captured expressions of frustration, detachment, contentment and meditation. He has catalogued a thorough gamut of human emotions and their manifestations, describing the multitude of ways that we operate as beings in the world.

Stimacs artistic practice is rooted in the American road trip. He travels the country, capturing images for several ongoing projects simultaneously. His project is firmly tethered to the history of American photography, extending the ideas in Robert Franks The Americans while referencing the formal seriality of Ed Ruschas L.A. photographs of the sixties. At a time when visual information, in the form of television and film, is iterated ad infinitum and ultimately emptied out, Stimac builds a larger essay by documenting and editing his visual environment, giving us a richer understanding of ourselves.

Greg Stimac
Mowing the Lawn