Kanfer’s delicate portraits in Pre-Reflection are an extension of her previous collection Memento Mori, in their use of found negatives to capture and preserve memory.In Pre-Reflection Kanfer attempts to contextualize the “pose” and in so doing capture the pre-reflective stance – the body as object prior to the awareness of the body as a thinking or reflective subject. Ultimately, Kanfer is attempting to tamper with history in the ongoing human struggle against transience.

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Kelly Lycan and Daniel Olson, in their representation and manipulation of everyday images and objects, explore what we accumulate, how we accumulate it, and why we accumulate and retain the physical and the ephemeral. - Jennifer Matotek, exhibition catalog writer.

Olson’s video Multiple Images Galore uses a screen saver function to show the many images he encounters daily in our image-saturated culture. Lycan’s body of work Junk Drawer considers the everyday items that get thrown in a drawer rather than discarded. Photographic enlargements of these items, from paperclips to unused balloons, are presented on the g...

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