Review: The Chicago Project III/Catherine Edelman Gallery

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Among the twelve Chicago photographers practicing a variety of genres who Catherine Edelman has selected to showcase from her online gallery, Leasha Overturf and Philip Dembrinski take the honors for their inventive visual reflections on the disordered psyche. In her color self-portrait, “Conflict,” Overturf has placed a ripped magazine photo of a model’s broad toothy smile over her own lips to create a provocative play with her relaxed cheeks and shut eyes. In his bitterly poignant color scenario shot, “Keep it Coming Like a Miracle,” Dembrinski has his male subject lost in sweet dreams at a weathered picnic table on a patio littered with detritus in front of a ramshackle house. To their credit, Overturf’s and Dembrinski’s images fit their titles like a glove, showing that perceptive conceptual art can enrich the sparest of texts. (Michael Weinstein)

Through September 4 at Catherine Edelman Gallery, 300 W. Superior

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