Hallie Gluk
Hallie Gluk received her BA in Art History from Tufts University and her BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gluk composes abstract still lives using mirrors and organic components. While her constructs are three dimensional, they are explicitly built to be photographed, playing with allusions in real-space without using any digital manipulation. She currently works as a graphic designer and content creator at Ashkan Media and was previously an education assistant at The Houston Center for Photography. Her work has been previously featured in the exhibition Relief at Flatlands Gallery through Flats Presents, Other Edens at the Galveston Arts Center and most recently The Big Show at Lawndale At Center in Houston
Symbolic Dis-Order
In the series Symbolic Dis-Order, Gluk’s staged scenes recall the aftermath of a party and the inherent hangover that comes with its excesses. Gluk’s photographs bring the Dutch Vanitas tradition into the contemporary, alluding to the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of decay.
Structures of meaning are, in their own way, ephemeral objects, and the stories told through symbolic constructs become mysteries once the coded meanings fade. She works in the world of aesthetic play - toying with the ever present gap between language and thought, between self and self-perception.
Hallie plays with traditional symbols — mirrors, light, flowers, chains — to compose abstract, impossible spaces that can’t exist in space or time, yet are anchored to specific personal meanings.