From Rock Island, Illinois (2006)

Chicago photographer Greg Stimac's artistic practice is rooted in the American road trip. He travels the country, capturing images for several ongoing projects simultaneously. His project Mowing the Lawn (on display at Bucket Rider Gallery from Fri 3.23 - Sat 4.28) is firmly tethered to the history of American photography, extending the ideas of Robert Frank's The Americans while referencing the formal seriality of Ed Ruscha's LA photographs of the '60s. At a time when visual information, in the form of television and film, is iterated ad infinitum and ultimately emptied out, Stimac builds a larger essay by documenting and editing his visual environment, giving us a richer understanding of ourselves.

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