PACKER SCHOPF GALLERY | COKE WISDOM O'NEAL |
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| CURRENT EXHIBITION |
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| April 30 - June 5, 2004 |
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| Gallery Two |
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| COKE WISDOM O'NEAL |
| Medicine Cabinet (Portraits) |
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| Photographs |
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| Homepage Artists |
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Name one space in your home that reveals more about who you are than anywhere else. Many suggest their refrigerator, trashcan, desk drawer, or mantle of family snapshots...but a medicine cabinet? New York artist Coke Wisdom O'Neal discovers a way to divulge one's character in a single photograph.
The artist finds his way into the bathrooms of relatives, friends, even sometimes strangers, and snaps pictures of the hidden mecca behind their mirrors. Only making sure that the names are concealed, O'Neal voyeuristically examines the truth contained on the small shelves of medicine cabinets. His work thrives on an inquisitive arrogance, and pure curiosity. Each photograph, an entire inner view of the cabinet, is sealed with plexiglas and mounted on a sheet of aluminum. It is a portrait of an unknown individual and his/her means of survival. This exhibition is not an advertisement for the various ointments, drops, and prescriptions on the market today, but a fascinating glimpse of contemporary reality. This secretive yet obvious display of culture, ironically exemplifies health awareness and the misguided conformity to the social requirement for excessive good hygiene. O'Neal is giving us a chance to better understand ourselves by prying into other's lives. |
| Packer Schopf Gallery |
| 942 W. Lake St. |
| p 312.226.8984,
c 773.458.3150 f 312.226.8985 |
| [email protected] |