'Rendered Obsolete,' the new exhibition running 6.26.09-7.31.09 at Aisle Gallery, features work by Rachel E. Heberling and Katherine Rogers. It is an ambitious exhibition featuring large-scale etchings and lithographs. Both artists are notably conscious of and use excellent restraint in the use of space in their work, allowing for large areas of rich tone or value systems of concentrated dark with open, sparse-bitten areas within the picture plane.There is a unifying post-industrial aesthetic for the exhibition, and an affinity for the obsolete, outmoded, or neglected, deftly making use of the title's play on words as both artists work with precisely rendered marks to realize their aims.
Katherine Rogers etchings' focus on the beautiful process of detritus and perhaps the solitude afforded by lack of human intervention.
Rachel Heberling's work provides an interesting breadth both in terms of media and in terms of concept. Earlier works having a penchant for WPA era photographic quality documentation and more recent work injecting the human figure to create cryptic narratives.
Altogether, ‘Rendered Obsolete’ is a thoughtfully curated exhibition showcasing fine examples of
contemporary prints at affordable prices.
- Andrew Au
‘Rendered Obsolete’ etchings and lithographs by Rachel E. Heberling & Katherine Rogers at the Aisle Gallery, 424 Findlay St. Third Floor , Cincinnati OH 45214 . 513-241-3403. Through 7.31.09.
In Photo, Heberling, Rachel E. Auto-Graph, 2009. Two-plate etching and aquatint, 18”x24”.
