Susan Mikula, "american device, recent photographs", George Lawson Gallery, 2.25.10 - 3.27.10

Ken Allen Studios printed some amazing imagery for Mikula's most recent exhibit for the San Francisco Bay area. - "Mikula’s approach shares formal concerns with painters in the gallery in that she pays particular attention to the physicality and scale of her supports, and her use of an almost impressionistic focus emphasizes color and light. The softening of Mikula’s industrial landscape is reminiscent of Monet’s study of the Rouen Cathedral. Her consideration of her picture as an object, however, aligns her with the dialogue amongst painters in the wake of Robert Ryman’s white paintings. Her imagery is evocative, calling up intangible feelings and associations, yet her means are disciplined, drawing upon the full range of her photographic medium to assert a concrete presence." - George Lawson