Art: 'Afterword'

Last update: October 22, 2009 - 4:11 PM

AFTERWORD

Opening Saturday: Even at garage sales, detective stories and other pulp novels get little respect and less money. That is, unless photographer Thomas Allen spies the potential for fresh drama in their stagey covers. The Michigan-based photographer buys the paperbacks and carefully cuts into their covers, folding some parts forward and letting other sections fall into the background. Then he photographs the restaged images. In the cover shown here, he focused on the hand of a man dropping a crisp sugar cube into a cup while a woman's blurry form slips suggestively through the darkened room behind it. Allen has made a popular career out of these artful reinventions, even turning them into a book of his own, as well as many successful exhibitions. He'll be in Minneapolis at the opening of "Afterword." (5-8 p.m. Sat., free opening party, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, 530 N. 3rd St., Mpls. Ends Nov. 28. 612-338-3656 or www.thomasbarry.com.)

MARY ABBE

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