KLOMPCHING GALLERY is pleased to announce Anthem, premiering new photographic artwork by Doug Fogelson, in the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will open with a reception on Thursday, September 5, 6:00–8:00pm, with Doug Fogelson in attendance.

Anthem is the most recent installment of Fogelson’s extensive Chemical Alterations series, in which the artist perceptively combines the subject of nature, with the (de)construction of the photograph, to comment upon the human impact on the environment.

Fogelson’s methodology begins with photographing biologically diverse landscapes using analog film. Back in the studio, the artist subjects the processed film to a range of common industrial chemicals—draining away and altering colors in the film’s emulsion, and at times melting away the layers of dye coupler all the way to the film’s plastic base. Through this destruction salt crystals, bubbles, dust, markings and patterns come to the foreground, while the original representational portions of the photograph all but disappear.

The eight photographs in the exhibition—lush in color—are at once beautifully rendered abstractions, and also for the artist are a reflection of “the altering effects that human activity has on our planet.” The work offers up the opportunity for viewers to consider ephemeral processes such as change and loss, as well as resilience and cyclical patterns.

The Anthem series is presented at an opportune time, when debates and discussion regarding the health of the environment is an increasingly urgent topic—in terms of economy, culture, politics and survival.

Doug Fogelson’s (b. 1970) artworks have been shown in numerous exhibitions in the US, as well as internationally, including solo shows at the Goethe Institute in Chicago, SFO Museum and The Alpineum Produzentengalerie in Lucerne, Switzerland. His work is currently part of the official Bauhaus100 touring exhibition, Bauhaus and Photography–On New Visions in Contemporary Art. Notable collections holding his photographs include the MoCP, J. Paul Getty Museum, The Cleveland Clinic and Elmhurst Art Museum among others. The artist lives and works in Chicago.

Klompching Gallery was established in Dumbo, Brooklyn in 2007, and specializes in the exhibition and sale of contemporary fine art photographs. It represents an international roster of artists, including the critically-acclaimed Helen Sear, British/Australian artist Odette England, and Barcelona-based Max de Esteban. The gallery has placed photographs into numerous private and public collections, including the George Eastman Museum, MoCP and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston among others.

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