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DOUG FOGELSON ANTHEM EXHIBIT DATES: September 5–October 11 OPENING RECEPTION: September 5, 6:00–8:00 p.m.

KLOMPCHING GALLERY is pleased to announce Anthem, premiering new photographic artwork by Doug Fogelson, in the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will open with a reception on Thursday, September 5, 6:00–8:00pm, with Doug Fogelson in attendance. Anthem is the most recent installment of Fogelson’s extensive Chemical Alterations series, in which the artist perceptively combines the subject of nature, with the (de)construction of the , to comment upon the human impact on the environment. Fogelson’s methodology begins with photographing biologically diverse landscapes using analog film. Back in the studio, the artist subjects the processed film to a range of common industrial chemicals—draining away and altering in the film’s emulsion, and at times melting away the layers of dye coupler all the way to the film’s plastic base. Through this destruction salt crystals, bubbles, dust, markings and patterns come to the foreground, while the original representational Doug Fogelson, Anthem No. 13, 2019, archival pigment print. portions of the photograph all but disappear. The eight in the exhibition—lush in —are at once beautifully rendered abstractions, and also for the artist Lucerne, Switzerland. His work is currently part of the official are a reflection of “the altering effects that human activity has Bauhaus100 touring exhibition, Bauhaus and –On on our planet.” The work offers up the opportunity for viewers New Visions in Contemporary Art. Notable collections holding to consider ephemeral processes such as change and loss, as his photographs include the MoCP, J. Paul Getty Museum, well as resilience and cyclical patterns. The Cleveland Clinic and Elmhurst Art Museum among others. The Anthem series is presented at an opportune time, when The artist lives and works in Chicago. debates and discussion regarding the health of the environment is an increasingly urgent topic—in terms of economy, culture, Klompching Gallery was established in Dumbo, Brooklyn politics and survival. in 2007, and specializes in the exhibition and sale of contemporary fine art photographs. It represents an Doug Fogelson’s (b. 1970) artworks have been shown in international roster of artists, including the critically-acclaimed numerous exhibitions in the US, as well as internationally, Helen Sear, British/Australian artist Odette England, and including solo shows at the Goethe Institute in Chicago, Barcelona-based Max de Esteban. The gallery has placed SFO Museum and The Alpineum Produzentengalerie in photographs into numerous private and public collections, including the , MoCP and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston among others. KLOMPCHING GALLERY 89 WATER STREET Media and image requests, please contact Darren Ching at BROOKLYN, NY 11201 [email protected] or +1 212 796 2070. TEL +1 212 796 2070 EMAIL [email protected] Sales inquiries, please contact Debra Klomp Ching at WWW KLOMPCHING.COM [email protected] or +1 212 796 2070.