Wisconsin photographers exhibit work at Cornell

MOUNT VERNON — Work by Wisconsin photographers John Shimon and Julie Lindemann is featured in “It Takes One to Know One,” an exhibition opening Sunday, Feb. 25, in the Peter Paul Luce Gallery of McWethy Hall at Cornell College.

The exhibition runs through March 20. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. A reception for the artists is Sunday, March 18, from 2 to 4 p.m.

Shimon and Lindemann, assistant professors of art at Lawrence University, have spent more than 20 years focusing on the obscure and the overlooked. Their Cornell exhibition features photographs from their recent catalog, “Observations Are Not Knowledge,” a self-published collection of Wisconsin portraiture and stories about the people they photograph, how they met them and what was going on when the photographs were taken.

“There’s something about the unappreciated that we love to photograph, things that aren’t looked at, things that are ignored,” Lindemann says.

Their work has been shown at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Wendy Cooper Gallery in Chicago and Madison, the Sarah Bowen Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the Seattle Art Museum.

The exhibition and programming at Cornell are funded through the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation.