Go Ahead, Laugh

Using the same concept, an amateur (that's you!) would probably wind up with a bunch of really stupid snapshots. But at "Kenneth Josephson," the artist takes excellent training, fancy equipment, and a severe way with composition, and makes a joke on art. Our favorite is a regular, human's-eye view of of a cloudy sky inhabited only by an airplane. In the foreground hovers a fly swatter; the perspective makes it very, very funny. But the exhibit is full of it, if "it" is a strangely solemn humor born of black-and-white film, stark tableax, and a Bugs Bunny gotcha in every frame.
May 7-June 27, 2009