Works
Overview

Corkin Gallery presents the first major retrospective of photographer Lori Newdick. Her work explores queer identities and visual culture. Newdick uses the medium to challenge truth and representation.

This exhibition includes works from four of her well known series including:   Heroine, 1999 ; Lure, 2001 ; Felonious, 2000; Lucky    2004-2005.

 

Heroine     explores the struggle of the individual to define and inhabit an identity that is not represented or reflected in mainstream culture.  The series examines how social constructs can isolate or marginalize those who exist outside of prescribed notions of sexual orientation and gender. 

 

Felonious  focuses on the act of representation, gesture as subject,  and the photograph as truth.   Newdick questions the veracity of photogrpahs by making it clear that images - still or moving - are not necessarily true representations of the subject.

 

Lure   consists  of a series of glossy colour saturated photographs, each showing a fishing lure floating in front of a pale blue colour field. The names  that have been assigned to them from the manufacturer highlight the aburdity of the commodified investment  in inanimate objects through a  pointed examination of their anthropomorphic qualities.

 

Lucky  charts what felt  like new terrain to Newdick  - one she still can't find a place for, or a succinct rationalization.  Influenced by the visual language of fashion photogrpahy, the photographs in this series are intended to be beautiful and seductive. The subject is captured in motion, seamlessly morphing  into object.

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