The show consists of pictures, all dealing with sculptural
objects. One focuses on a brightly painted dresser with a small black and white
portrait on top of it. The photo is shot straight on, so it collapses onto the
same plane the colorful dresser, the black and white portrait and the white
wall in the background, forming a graphic yet real world assemblage. These skilled
sculptural pictures are mixed with more literal assemblages like a black and
white picture of a girl that is photographed with a lock of auburn hair on top
of it or a picture of bubbles resting on the surface of a photograph of a girl
blowing bubbles. I am a little torn about the show. I like the sculptural
element Lyons brings to her work, but for me, the work is more successful when
the sculptural elements are less literal and just come out in the pictures,
like her graphic yet somber pairing of out of focus flowers. The pictures of
pictures with something on top of the original photographs are occasionally
pretty charming, but the technique often feels like a visual gimmick and
distracts from over-arching theme of the show, which seems to be a slightly sad
portrait of a child or for that matter childhood.
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