January 16, 2021 - February 27, 2021
—
Repetition Suppression
Natalie Krick

Opening Reception : Saturday, January 16th from 12pm-4pm
Gallery hours: Open by appointment on Saturdays, 12pm-3pm. Please send us an email at specialist.gallery@gmail.com or DM us on instagram (@specialist_sea) to plan your visit!

To keep our community safe, we are limiting gallery occupancy to 3 visitors at a time during the open gallery hours between 12-3pm. Masks are required (let us know if you need one!), and plenty of hand sanitizer will be available.

—

To usher in 2021, Specialist presents Repetition Suppression, new photographic works by Natalie Krick.

Taking cues from the dangerous but alluring femme fatales of the 1940s and 50s Hollywood crime melodramas, Krick approaches the photograph as a fragment ingrained with treachery. In Repetition Suppression, prints are physically sliced, fractured and masked, then embedded within layers of reflective resin and mirrors. These glossy surfaces both reveal and conceal, enticing the viewer yet disrupting the act of looking. The seemingly cliché lure of Krick’s subjects prompts repetition suppression, defined as a reduced neural response to familiar, repeated stimuli. Yet the images in Repetition Suppression are unstable, rife with illusion and and trickery; like the femme fatale herself, not all is what it seems.

—

Natalie Krick (B. 1986) holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has recently been exhibited at SF Camerawork, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Aperture Foundation and Blue Sky Gallery. Her photographs have been highlighted in several international publications including BOMB, Vogue Italia, The New Yorker, PDN, Aperture and Vrij Nederland. She was awarded the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2017 and was a recipient of an Individual Photographer's Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation in 2015. Natural Deceptions, her first book, was published by Skylark Editions in the Fall of 2017. Her photographs reside in the collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.