Located in unincorporated Boulder County at 3205 Longhorn Rd, Seidel City is a contemporary art gallery run by Terry Seidel (also of Mr. Pool fame).
On May 18 Seidel City opens the exhibition, Soldiers & Saints, featuring photographs by internationally acclaimed artists Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg. The public is invited to the opening reception with the artists in attendance from 7-10 pm. The reception will include a live performance by the punk/metal band Stuntdoubles. Soldiers & Saints will be on view through August 17th. Don't miss the artist talk on May 22nd at 6:30 pm. The gallery is open by appointment. In Soldiers & Saints, artists Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg explore the liminal spaces beyond normative culture and the communities that live there. Selected from his series WHITE TRASH, Christopher Makos’ gritty black and white photographs chronicle New York City’s emerging punk scene in the 1970s and feature iconic figures like Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Patti Smith, and many others. Photographs from Paul Solberg’s Service, a collection of intimate portraits of veterans in both the United States and the Ukraine, provide a counter balance to the unapologetically raw vitality of Makos’ portrayal of punk counterculture. Solberg’s soft, atmospheric images imbue the anonymous soldiers with a haunted, otherworldly presence. Both exploring concepts of stigma, identity, and otherness, the juxtaposition of Makos’ and Solberg’s work creates a delicate tension between two artistic interpretations with equal resonance. |
