Last days for visiting the show Tom Van Eynde: Some of Everything, A Retrospective, presented at Linda Warren Projects in Chicago. This exhibition retraces four-decades-long photography career of American artist Tom Van Eynde.
From the vintage portraits of late 1970s subcultures to vast panoramas of Egypt in the 1980s and the intimate studio practice he continues today, Van Eynde employs a documentary style approach to his subject matter.
The earliest series of Van Eynde’s career in this exhibition are “Santa Fe Speedway” (late 1970s – early 1980s) and “Photographers Welcome” (mid 1970s). The artist’s lifelong passion for racing makes an appearance in “Santa Fe Speedway.” Van Eynde’s works are a firsthand account of this eccentric scene of folks posing proudly with their dinged-up helmets and hand-painted vehicles. In these works, Van Eynde gives us an image and occasionally a name of the men and women of this long gone dirt racetrack, and little else in terms of identifying details. Likewise, “Photographers Welcome” embodies the artist’s MO of “showing” but hardly “telling.” Taken during a time before the more sterilized gentleman’s clubs of today, these works document the strip shows that encouraged any and all spectators to photograph their performers. Van Eynde catalogs these strippers (and their attentive audiences) with precision, though everyone and
everything in the compositions remain anonymous.
EXHIBITION
Tom Van Eynde: Some of Everything, A Retrospective
Last Days !
From November 13, 2015 to January 16, 2016
Linda Warren Projects
327 N Aberdeen St #151
Chicago, IL 60607
United States
http://lindawarrenprojects.com
http://www.tomvaneynde.com
