Tom Bamberger: Horizon Lines and Flowers

 

 

 

Tom Bamberger: Horizon Lines and Flowers 

Please join us on Friday, April 1st from 5-8PM for the opening reception of Tom Bamberger: Horizon Lines and Flowers; on view through May 14, 2022. This will be the first solo exhibition of Bamberger’s work at The Alice Wilds.

We are honored to present a selection of vintage gelatin silver prints from Tom Bamberger’s pivotal series Horizon Lines executed between 1994 and 1999. Beginning with nudes and portraits of the 1980’s through the suburban tableaus of the 1990’s, Horizon Lines would see the end of Bamberger’s psychological and sociological investigations in favor of a pure and objective photographic vision. Long fascinated and inspired by the rapid evolution of photographic technology Horizon Lines would be his last works executed using traditional analog photographic processes. This exhibition continues with a selection of Flowers, direct high-resolution scans created within the last few years of botanical specimens that apply scientific scrutiny to our most universal symbol of sensual beauty.

Tom Bamberger attended Boston University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he studied philosophy and taught mathematical logic. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Bamberger has received both a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board.