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Ari Marcopoulos: Rena Bransten Gallery.(photography exhibition)

Artforum International,  April, 2006  by Helfand, Glen

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The nine color photographs that constituted Ari Marcopoulos's concise recent exhibition focus on moments drawn from ordinary life, yet a sense of foreboding pervades all of them. Jennifer, Sonoma, 2005, depicts the photographer's wife (a frequent subject) peering enigmatically from the shade of an outdoor patio.

She holds a lotus-shaped bowl as if in the midst of a snack (a bag of barbecue coals is also just visible in the background), and one of her bare legs is marked by a bloody scrape from some small mishap (the Marcopoulos's lifestyle appears to be of the gritty, outdoorsy, ...

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