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Aurora, New York— The Wells College String Room Gallery presents the exhibition 'Henry Wesselwoman,' the latest collaboration by the artists Alli Miller and Trey Burns. The exhibition will be on display from March 19 to April 24, with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19. The exhibit is free.

Alli Miller and Trey Burns have an ongoing collaborative practice through which they explore liminal, hyperbolic and humorous visions of the American commercial landscape. This latest effort features work stemming from a character they’ve designed named 'Henry Wesselwoman,' a direct revisionist reference to the New Topographics generation of landscape photography. They will employ photography and installation to engage with and reconsider this history.

Miller and Burns’ past exhibitions featured a collaborative archive entitled 'Wessel Castle,' derived from their travels through the American landscape. Miller is an artist and designer working in Los Angeles whose work is premised on the investigation of liminal moments to underscore the psychosexual, relational and linguistic trends of display and consumerism. She received a bachelor’s from Cooper Union and is currently a master’s candidate at the University of Southern California. Burns holds a master’s in painting and new media from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His practice examines the humors and banalities of monoculture, documenting the peripheries of the post-industrial United States.

Miller and Burns’ collaborative work has been featured in recent exhibitions including at et al Projects, Brooklyn (2013); Fountain Art Fair, New York (2013); May Gallery, New Orleans (2013); and BRUCENNIAL, New York (2012). Together they have produced two artists’ books: Wessel Castle (2013) and Shore Signs (2012).

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