The game of cranking up the color on old TV sets offers rich rewards. Instead of verisimilitude, pink people can be cast in a cyanotic blue, and brown ones turned golden, like toast under butter. Landscapes too change in the over-charge of artificial light, as the stately succumbs to the carnival.
Alice Wheeler never met a natural thing that couldn’t be improved upon by the addition of cheap charm.
Wheeler’s inkjet prints are part of Made in the U.S.A. at Greg Kucera, through May 15.
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