REDNECK CHIC by Matthew KangasWith the complete assimilation of photographic equipment and processes into contemporary art over the past two decades, artists who privilege a documentary, darkroom-based print approach are increasingly overlooked or disdained. Mark Barnes, Jesse Burke, Steve Davis and Glenn Rudolph are four artists exhibiting in Seattle and Portland galleries and museums who vary time-honored fine-print techniques and cameras with large-format digital means, in search of the vanishing working-class white males of the American Northwest. The results are stylish, somewhat comical and also somewhat tragic.
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