Taking cues from the dangerous but alluring femme fatales of the 1940s and 50s Hollywood crime melodramas, Krick approaches the photograph as a fragment ingrained with treachery. In Repetition Suppression, prints are physically sliced, fractured and masked, then embedded within layers of reflective resin and mirrors. These glossy surfaces both reveal and conceal, enticing the viewer yet disrupting the act of looking. The seemingly cliché lure of Krick’s subjects prompts repetition suppression, defined as a reduced neural response to familiar, repeated stimuli. Yet the images in Repetition Suppression are unstable, rife with illusion and and trickery; like the femme fatale herself, not all is what it seems.
Blue Eye Shadow
9 x 20 x 3 inches
Hand cut photographs, resin, artist frame, hanging light cord and blue bulb.
Blue Fragments
47 x 95 inches
hand cut digital c prints, blue polyester film, resin, mirrors
Blue Fragments
detail
You as Me as Joan (looking up)
16 x 61 inches
hand cut digital c prints + resin on panel
2 Left Feet (in pieces)
30 x 57 x 10 inches
hand cut digital c prints + resin in artist frames
Negative Positive Positive Negative
(2) 21 x 25 inches
hand cut digital c prints + resin in artist frames
Razzle Dazzle
archival inkjet adhesive vinyl
Razzle Dazzle
detail