Aimée Beaubien: Matter in the Hothouse

Gallery Exhibition: May 12 - July 9, 2022
Location: Minnesota Street Project, Gallery #106, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

Aimee Beaubien’s dynamic installation combined cut and woven photographs of plants, plant materials, and mixed media additions hung from the ceiling in strips and waves that the viewer was invited to carefully traverse. Bold leaf shapes and twisting ribbons of photos entwine, cluster and creep. Photographed plants, interlaced vines, and woven topographies merge into fields of color and pattern and back again - expanding the ever more complicated sensations of reading a photograph and experiencing nature. The winner of SF Camerawork's 2020 Exhibition Award, Aimée Beaubien was selected from a pool of over 200 applicants.

The Exhibition was generously supported by Michelle Branch and Dale Cook, the Delabos-Yamrus Fund, Philip Sager, M.D., and individual members of SF Camerawork

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Aimée Beaubien

Aimée Beaubien is an artist living and working in Chicago. Beaubien reorganizes photographic experience while exploring networks of meaning and association between the archive, the ephemeral, and the photographic in collages, artist books, and immersive installations. Her work has appeared in national and international exhibitions including at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; UCRC Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX; Gallery UNO Projektraum, Berlin, Germany; Virus Art Gallery, Rome, Italy; Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL; Chicago Cultural Center, IL; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN; Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY; TWIN KITTENS, Atlanta, GA; and Demo Projects, Springfield, IL. Aimée Beaubien is an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL where she has taught since 1997. More of Beaubien’s work can be seen at aiméebeaubien.com