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.

The 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 photographs 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 by the manufacturer highlight the absurdity 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 photography, the photographs in this series are intended to be beautiful and seductive. The subject is captured in motion, seamlessly morphing into object.