Image from Curtis Mann's Modifications series

20x200 photographer Curtis Mann has work up in a small group exhibition in Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography. The show, MP3II, is the second series of exhibitions from the Midwest Photographers Project, a "a rotating collection of portfolios by both prominent and emerging photographers from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin".

Mann is exhibiting work from his Modifications series. When asked how he'd like the work to be perceived, he comments:

“I want them to move through the pieces slowly, maybe on different levels. Minimalism from a distance, some odd color on closer inspection, different textures—‘what’s going on here, painting or photography?’ Then they see the more subtle handmade marks, wrinkles, relief of the varnish resist, then details of the original appropriated photograph, then start over with, ‘What is going on here?’ in a larger sense.”

MP3 II: CURTIS MANN, JOHN OPERA, STACIA YEAPANIS
July 17 - September 13, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago

Also of note--Mann recently digitized and converted his new work, After the dust when you come over the hill, on his site allowing you to zoom in and inspect the work. It's definitely worth taking a look.

Mann's edition print, Tree Tops, from the series Somewhere in Israel, has only two prints remaining!