Gordon Muehle

Gordon Muehle
Till April 30, 2009


Gordon Muehle is currently showing work at Schneider Gallery. Inspired by David Hockney, Muehle was captivated by the power of photography and its endless possibilities from a young age.
Muehle has engaged in extensive exploration of the media and has literally developed his own way of seeing. He shoots his subjects with Polaroid film and a modified camera that allows him to push the boundaries of the film itself. His camera, which took two years of trials to perfect, enables him to take extreme close-ups, control shutter speeds, and apertures. The completed image is a one-of-a-kind grid of Polaroids. The effect of the tiled image is engaging, playful, and very much his own. Variations in value and shifts in color dance across the surface of the work. Perspective pushes and pulls from frame to frame creating a unique distortion, yet maintaining an overall vantage.
Muehle’s newest body of work, Heroes is a series of portraits, which tribute influential people and critical moments in his life.