Melanie Schiff, Cannon Falls (Cobain Room), 2006. Photo courtesy of Kavi Gupta Gallery

CHICAGO.- Intimate and ideal, the spaces depicted in artist Melanie Schiff’s photographs provide a voyeuristic glimpse into the most private of interiors. The May UBS 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work exhibit features four large-scale photographs, three of which have never been seen before by the public, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, opening at First Fridays on May 4 and running through May 27.
This collection of images captures interior sites where creativity flourishes—an artist’s studio and a room at a famed recording studio—but Schiff’s signature use of light lends the subjects a calm, quiet, and ethereal quality. The exhibition’s centerpiece, Cannon Falls (Cobain Room), is a large diptych that depicts the interior of the Kurt Cobain room at Pachyderm Studios in Minnesota. In addition to the ghostly quality of the light, a nude female figure that appears in one half of the diptych has disappeared in the other, leaving only an imprint behind. The remaining two photographs, Studio, a well lit but private studio, and Water Birth, a quiet and tranquil bathroom, show the artist’s concept of idyllic spaces. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19987