almost seeing

"It's always wonderful when an artist finds his subject. In this case it may be the occluded self: the seer who is only partly visible, who sees without seeing himself in the lens. Ideas of seeing and hiding organize and motivate many of Podlesnik’s earlier formal experiments." - James Elkins (E.C. Chadbourne Chair of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

Self-portraits taken in Phoenix, AZ and Milwaukee, WI.

Curatorial contributions by Israel Hershberg. Sequenced by Joseph Podlesnik. Thanks to James Elkins and Katherine Humphreys.