Ray Bartkus and His Really Bad NEWS

Oh, how we wish we lived in a former Soviet state and also had the ability to travel back in time, so we could take in Ray Bartkus‘ exhibition “NEWS” that closed at Gallery Vartai in Vilnius, Lithuania last week.

His large-scale lambda prints depict the frightening, yet all-too-commonplace experience one might have while reading a newspaper or flipping on CNN. Bartkus conveys the horror, shock, ridiculousness, and, sometimes, humor of what we see on the evening news.