Artist

Blue Sky Gallery, 1231 NW Hoyt, is proud to present two lecture and slide presentations by Nathan Baker of Chicago and John Trotter of Brooklyn, on Friday, June 8 at 7:00 pm at Blue Sky Gallery. The lectures are free and open to the public.

In “People at Work” Nathan Baker’s photographs address the double nature of labor at all levels of the social hierarchy – a round of tasks, often with no satisfying meaning, and a field for the exercise of aptitudes. By composing digital photographs that compact the varied tasks of individual workers into a single frame, Baker seeks to communicate simultaneously the frenzied tedium of a wide variety of occupations and the intensity of effort that people put into them. The result in each case is a concentrated look at a person at work that conveys both a sense of frantic alienation and an amazement at the feats performed by workers in what are often considered the most ordinary, routine and undemanding occupations.