Ida Applebroog: Photogenetics

Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 2007, 6-9pm

CHICAGO, IL - Celebrating its third anniversary, rowlandcontemporary is pleased to present the work of venerable New York artist Ida Applebroog. In her first solo exhibition in Chicago in more than two decades, Applebroog will exhibit her latest series of digital prints and mixed media works called Photogenetics. Opening September 7, this exhibition will also include rare artist books from the beginning of her career which first established her presence on the international art scene.

Prolific, provocative, and never one to shy away from technology, Applebroog continues to push the boundaries of her artistic production. Photogenetics began by making drawings sectioned into several sheets of paper. These drawings formed the basis of crude sculptural figures created with simple modeling clay which were then posed and photographed under a range of lighting conditions. Applebroog then manipulated the images via computer where an array of changes takes place: cropping, focus, color shifts, and added details clipped from magazines. The result is printed on large sheets of paper, where she applies finishing touches by hand such as paint, gloss and glitter.

Difficult to categorize, Ida Applebroog's artistic endeavors continue to resonate across the breadth of the human condition. For her exhibition with rowlandcontemporary, she will present early and late stages from the Photogenetics series, including digital artist proofs, mixed media works as well as her singular artist books where she exploited the comic frame format and story telling conventions.

Ida Applebroog attended the New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received an Honorary Doctorate from Parsons School of Design. Her work has been shown in many one-person exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and is included in the collections of the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. She has been the recipient of many awards, most notably a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.

Ida Applebroog - Photogenetics