galleries

I spent most of my time at the river north galleries. Two artists:
David Burdeny had long-distance photos of places on the water, all with an overcast sky. The result was typically a thin strip of shoreline across the middle of the photo with flat white on top and bottom. He picked some locations that fit this technique very well, like a small, isolated town in some place that looked like Greenland. Another was of Venice, but that one was just sort of advantageous of its architecture, like it was from a tourist's guidebook.
The artist that stood out the most to me was Robert Middaugh. He had two pieces near Audrey Niffenegger's work. He was a very old man sitting right by them. They were delicate wood constructions that hung on a wall, combining doll house-like compartments and diagrams of the phases of the moon and characters of an foreign alphabet I couldn't recognize. I looked him up on google, and he has good paintings, too.