I'm In The Wrong Film and Other Works: Hans Gindlesberger, photography and video art

Raised in the American Midwest during the decline in the 1980s and 1990s, and forging a career in the midst of the ongoing economic crisis, Gindlesberger is inescapably caught between nostalgic longing for better times and anxiety-ridden hope for economic recovery. The images present landscapes of isolation and decay in photographs of main streets and exurban neighborhoods taken in northwestern Ohio to western New York. Digitally inserting himself into these depopulated stages, Gindlesberger strikes… Show more poses of exhaustion, listlessness, and melancholy. In one photograph, he sleeps in a fallow field near an isolated farmhouse. Another has Gindlesberger perched on a ladder in front of a boarded building with a paint roller, laboring to improve the decrepit environment in which he finds himself.
Along with the exhibition, Gindlesberger presents an artist talk Monday, March 5, at noon in the Oak Room of the UW-Parkside Student Center. That afternoon at 2, he also presents a “low-tech” animation workshop in room D150L of Wyllie Hall.

Show less