Mixed Greens Gallery is on the 11th floor of Chelsea’s landmark
Starrett-Lehigh Building. We’re open six days a week, and are happy to make
appointments outside of our regular hours.
601 West 26th Street, 11th
floor NYC 10001 Mon–Sat, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. (212) 331-8888 or info@mixedgreens.com
Coke O’Neal: Medicine Cabinet
Portraits September 12–October 11, 2003 Opening: Friday, September
12, 6–8 p.m.
Mixed Greens is pleased to kick off the fall season with
photographer Coke
Wisdom O’Neal’s first solo show in New York City.
In Medicine
Cabinet Portraits, O’Neal presents a series of mesmerizing photographs that
transform that most mundane of objects—the bathroom medicine cabinet—into an
unsettling landscape. In each life-sized cabinet image, the familiar is rendered
foreign, the personal becomes public, and the viewer is made complicit in an
ethically questionable exercise: namely, poking through another person’s secret
life.
Playing on conflicting strains inherent in contemporary American
culture—the obsession with health, disease, and aging; the assumption of privacy
in an increasingly voyeuristic world; the simple thrill of snooping—O’Neal is
creating a unique form of portraiture. In so doing, the photographs speak not
only to the cultural theorist, or the art critic, but to the voyeur in us
all.
(You can read a recent, brief interview with Coke right
here.)
