Lynne Cohen: False Clues

Event Details

Time: January 23, 2014 at 11am to March 9, 2014 at 4pm
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst
Street: Fine Arts Center / UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website or Map: http://umass.edu/UMCA
Phone: 4135453672
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: UMCA
Latest Activity: Jan 22, 2014

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Event Description

Renowned Canadian artist Lynne Cohen has been photographing interior spaces ― laboratories, offices, health spas, classrooms, shooting ranges ― often wryly humorous, sometimes bleak, with an element of suspense and of uneasiness. Her large-format photographs are devoid of people but not of human presence. Through the seemingly fictional quality of these spaces, the purposes of which are as often as not ill-defined, Cohen creates a cross between documentary photography and artifice, sense and nonsense, the ordinary and dream-like. Her vision is informed by a deep feeling for the mystery in the ordinary: what is on the surface but out of sight.