Lehman Maupin Gallery : Juegen Teller

The sizes of Teller's photographs were interesting in this show; the washed out colors and grainy focus were not. The flash Teller used abuses the color, which makes them faded, and distracts from the body of work. This effect appears unintentional until the last frame in the gallery, Napoleon crowning Josephine before the Pope. There is an enigma behind this piece; why did the artist obviously appropriate another master's work? The evidence of the more recent artist, Teller, is the reflection of the flash in the painting. The models occupying the rest of the pictures appear boring and unprofessional; they look dull and disinterested. They lack the strategic pose and prowess of ancient Greek studies of anatomy through sculpture that surround them in the museum. The relation of the two-dimensional photography does not quite meet the satisfaction of the high art of Grecian three-dimensional sculptures.