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21/3/2002

Luisa Caldwell

Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to welcome you to My House, an installation of photographs and sculpture by Luisa Caldwell. The exhibition is on view from March 22 through April 20, 2002. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Thursday, March 21, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Caldwell leads us into a forest of candy wraps and string, shimmering and glimmering like butterflies in air. We meander through this fantasy forest arriving at photographs of her husband and child's future following her own hypothetical death. In her snapshot-like visions of their lives without her, the artist's husband has been able to create a new life by remarrying and moving into another home. "I suppose a mother's greatest relief is knowing her children are okay", says Caldwell. "I was stranded in Florida during 9/11. Once I learned that Rob and Caleb were alive, I realized not only were they okay, but they would be alright even if something were to happen to me. In time, they would go on to live a happy live, as I would want them to."

Caldwell' s domestic reveries have long inspired her site-specific public installations, and she draws on similar material here. Caldwell poses her real life husband, the artist Robert Hickman and their two-year-old son Caleb, with different women she knows; friends and associates from her personal and professional life. "In a manner of speaking", says Caldwell, "these photographs become portraits of my women friends as well, although they are not in their natural environments and do not play themselves, but a role."

The faux families are placed in various households, depicting the different possibilities that can arise from one's choices. For instance, Rob, Caleb, and Dara are appropriately dressed and fitted into a stylish Park Slope apartment. In another photo Rob, Caleb, and Jude relax with the Sunday paper in a Williamsburg artist's loft, so on and so forth. Caldwell says, "Iwanted to depict these scenes in a positive light, that is why I have chosen nice interiors and beautiful women".

This is Caldwell's third solo show in New York City. She was SculptureCenter Artist in Residence in 1999 and exhibited as part of Florence Lynch Gallery Presents installation series. She has exhibited in numerous group shows in New York and elsewhere including at Socrates Sculpture Park, Venice Biennale Aperto, Islip Museum of Art. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker and Art in America. She lives and works with Rob and Caleb in Brooklyn.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 21, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 6:00 p.m. For further information and visual material, please contact Florence Lynch or Young-Eun Choi at 967-7584.

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