Milano Chow”™s first solo institutional exhibition, Prima Facie, will be presented
in two first-floor galleries at the Aldrich Contempory Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, from Jan. 15 to May 8. She will debut more than a dozen new works on paper spanning two and three dimensions. Chow”™s monochromatic collages are rendered in graphite, ink and photo transfer, casting modish women in self-possessed cameos staged in gilded architectural interiors that feel cloistered and deserted. Influenced by Surrealism, fashion photography, shop window design and Hollywood film noir from Chow”™s native Los Angeles, her ornamented mise-en-sceÌ€nes are frozen in time. Pivoting off the wall, the three-dimensional works, which Chow refers to as “corners” and “rooms” toe the line between drawing and sculpture.
Major support for the exhibition is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, with support among others from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund and The Poses Family Foundation.
