ADAM EKBERG, "Puncture," multimedia. The conventional photographic landscape--even when it is drenched in beauty--is not enough for Adam Ekberg, who inserts festive objects in the pristine scenes that he shoots in cool color. Eckberg's signature is a mild dry wit that neither subverts nature nor criticizes human intervention in it, but simply goes for innocent amusement, as in his most successful image, in which a sparkler planted in a deep blue icy lake flashes crazily under an ink-blue night sky with a gently rolling tree line on the horizon. Each of Eckberg's images conveys the sense that there has been a party and that the revelers have cleaned up carefully in its wake, leaving only a single strategic token of their presence as an offering to free and easy times. (Michael Weinstein)
Contemporary Art Workshop - Chicago