Electrical Shock from Season's Gleamings, 2004
We did a book once, Season’s Gleamings, and a film, Foot Massage, about the optimism of the 1960s expressed through aluminum Christmas tree design and electrical devices, some made in our hometown of Manitowoc. CBS Sunday Morning and The New York Times covered it. Most Decembers to this day we get calls from writers to talk about the trees from publications like Der Spiegel in Hamburg or Third Coast Digest Milwaukee. The trip continues.
Portrait Society Gallery booth installation at Next Fair, Chicago. Photo © Art Elkon 2011
The Portrait Society Gallery in Milwaukee took our Green Acres Trip prints to the Next Fair in Chicago in May 2011. View the images here.
Milwaukee Art Museum "Unmasked & Anonymous" installation view, November 2008. Photo © MAM 2008
“This was effective in a small dimly-lit gallery where Shimon and Lindemann’s tintypes whispered across the way to ta collection of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes with which they shared affinities. Depsite their age differences–or maybe because of it–the air crackled with the electricity of their meeting.” — Sam Watson, Art Papers, January/February 2009
Unmasked & Anonymous: Shimon & Lindemann Consider Portraiture exhibition catalog still available here.