Frank Egloff

An Occasional Address to the Culture-Industrial Complex

The reference is to President Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address on the dangers posed by a military-industrial complex, and the potential for misunderstanding the symbiotic definitions of need and production and use, between intentions and outcomes.

The premise here is that any artist’s every exhibition is also an address to the art world — meaning, that 'culture-industrial complex' of artists, galleries, critics and collectors, institutions and auction houses and fairs, all of which function today within a social media universe.

Egloff uses found images, generally from the internet and social media, by artists and advertisers, anyone really. Printing on separate sheets of mylar, overlaying two prints together, he makes something new, something else. This exhibit consists in part of 18 such constructions.

Egloff’s work has been widely exhibited in major museums including, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ICA, Boston, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and MIT List Visual Arts

Matthew Gamber

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Using a variety of processes, this exhibition is a play on the photograph as document, drawing attention to the medium’s connection to language. Documents are analogous to tools; they maintain a specific functional purpose and resist reconfiguration by the user. Useful documents substantiate history, whereas useless documents have no history. What was full of information is now empty.

Matthew Gamber lives and works in Massachusetts. He is the recipient of a Blanche E. Colman award, a Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the New Photography Grant from Humble Arts Foundation. Gamber is a professor in the Visual Arts Department at the College of the Holy Cross.