Geoff Ault “Running with
Scissors”
An opening reception
will be held at CITY Gallery
on Saturday November 6th from 6-9 pm.
In Ault’s words: “As children we are told
what not to do. Don’t touch that,
it’s hot. Don’t eat that, it’s
dirty. Don’t swallow your gum,
don’t play with matches. Don’t run
with scissors.
Yet we did everything we
were told not to do because we wanted to know why the adults didn’t want us to
do these things. So we found out
what ‘hot’ is, what dirt tastes like, what happened when we swallowed our
chewing gum, and the consequences of playing with matches. But somehow we knew the consequences of
running with scissors and usually didn’t try that one out..."
Some of Ault's images begin as film
photographs taken with toy cameras that produce blurry, dreamlike images.
Other images are created from
objects placed on a flatbed scanner and digitally manipulated to produce
distorted, unrecognizable images.
CITY Gallery
804 H ST NE #1
Washington, DC 20002
202-468-5277
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