Case Mahan: In The Round

Lexington live and liminal, cardiac, beating the drum, waking to its forever changing self. The quiet of corn growing in fog, the chaos of weeds and teeth bare. Lined up for the marching band. Laying burnout skid marks. Lexington not imagined, not theorized. Like a soup pot rattling itself to boil, the images are hot to reveal, and warm to nourish. The artist breathing, cool, waiting, letting the picture come. The approximate fence and the synchronous birds. Nothing but imperfection wandering toward itself but also already complete. Skidding through the intersection. Not black, not white, but lines and bursts and fields of these, action out the frame, action in the frame. Where are you in this? You are welcome here. Put on your hat with both hands.

–Whitney Baker

Shot on a variety of mostly pocketable cameras over the course of 4 years, In The Round exhibits Mahan’s street and domestic photos in and adjacent to Lexington’s not so historic inner beltway, New Circle Road.