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Melanie Pullen, Soldier #7 (Soldier Series), Courtesy ACE Gallery
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July 12, 2008 – Sep 30, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war and takes her elaborately staged crime scenes to a new level. Soldiers, weapons, and warfare are depicted in large photographs and on giant light boxes, giving her subject matter an alluring, cinematic quality. Soldiers are bathed in clouds of smoke and fog, lending drama, ambiguity, and menace to the range of ethnicities and time periods represented, and also suggesting that war is an eternal reality. The darkness of Pullen's work is matched by its beauty, which addresses society's idealization — if not outright glamorization — of mortal combat.
