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Art
Anna Shteynshleyger

When

Jan 3, 2010 – Feb 14, 2010

Daily

Where
Renaissance Society (The University of Chicago, Cobb Hall, 4th floor, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, room 418, 773 702 8670) Directions: Green Line - Direction: Ashland / 63, to Garfield Station. X55 - Garfield Express - Direction: Museum of Science & Industry, to Ellis Avenue stop. Walk to 5811 South Ellis Avenue.
Price
FREE
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The Renaissance Society mounts a solo exhibition of photographs by Chicago-based artist Anna Shteynshleyger (b. 1977). Trained at Yale, Shteynshleyger belongs to a generation of photographers whose work is notable for its formal beauty and technical execution. The exhibition features approximately 18 works that poignantly document Shteynshleyger's life over the past several years. During that period, Shteynshleyger has had to renegotiate her relationship with Orthodox Judaism, which she had practiced since the age of 16, after moving to the United States from Moscow, where she was born. Too personal to qualify as documentary of the Orthodox Jewish community, Shteynshleyger's work spans a variety of genres — portraits, still-life, landscape, and interiors — all of which are included in the exhibition. The portraits and interiors display a sensitivity that is as questioning as it is knowing of its subjects.

Audrey Mast