Claudia Wieser & Andrew Falkowski & Elad Lassry
(October 7 - 19)

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Claudia Wieser

Wieser was born in 1973 in Freilassing, Germany and lives and works in Berlin; Falkowski was born in 1973 and lives and works in Chicago; Lassry was born in 1977 in Tel-Aviv and lives and works in Los Angeles

Claudia Wieser's faded environments and geometric compositions are rooted in German Romanticism, Russian Suprematism, and German Expressionist film-à-la-Caligari and take the form of collages on found photographs or photocopied wallpaper installations. Andrew Falkowski's wry and melancholic paintings of photographic backdrops present absent portraits, missing still-lives, and lost historical prerogatives. Elad Lassry's photographs and films continue a collapse of background into foreground but also make use of photographic conventions and histories. Each in his and her own way, Falkowski, Lassry, and Wieser self-reflexively consider the layered process of picture-making.

Andrew Falkowski

Elad Lassry

Image credits: Claudia Wieser, Andrew Fallowski, Elad Lassry, The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2008.

General support for the Contemporary’s exhibitions program is generously provided by the Whitaker Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; William E. Weiss Foundation; Regional Arts Commission; Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; Arts and Education Council; Nancy Reynolds and Dwyer Brown; and members of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.