GARRY FABIAN MILLER – THE MIDDLE PLACE

Posted on 2013-06-03

In 1976, aged just 19, the artist Garry Fabian Miller embarked on a body of work now known as Sections of England: The Sea Horizon, a series of photographs taken from the roof of Fabian Miller’s home at Clevedon, near Bristol, looking west across the waters of the Severn Estuary. Taken from this fixed point the lens, film and exposure remained constant, so that all that changes from picture to picture is time and the seasonal cycle. Each image is a simple square, divided precisely in half along the horizon.

In 1977 eight of these photographs were exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London and two years later they formed a principle element of Miller’s first one-man show at the Arnolfini in Bristol. For nearly 20 years, they then lay unseen until an enquiry from curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, who realizing the increasing significance of this body of work, brought Miller’s early career back into focus.

Exhibition runs through till July 13th, 2013

Ingleby Gallery
15 Calton Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8DL
Scotland

www.inglebygallery.com

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NYC, c. 1985

Posted on 2013-06-03

NYC, c. 1985, is a group exhibition including artworks by Armand Agresti, Amy Arbus, Janette Beckman, Larry Clark, Janet Delaney, Andrew Garn, Nan Goldin, Arlene Gottfried, Keizo Kitajima, Catherine McGann, Jeannette Montgomery Barron, Mark Morrisroe, Christine Osinski, Gunar Roze, Les Simpson, Gail Thacker, and Brian Young.

Through a wide range of photographic images by both established and less-familiar artists, the exhibition represents a major metropolis in transition. Compared to the 1970s, a restrained optimism prevailed to a certain extent in New York City over the next decade with the Wall Street boom and a general decline in unemployment. However, such appalling blights as homelessness, violent crime, and racial tensions – not to mention the explosion of the AIDS epidemic, all served to shred the very social fabric of the city.

The exhibition includes work that depicts both the high and the low in terms of culture, from Jeannette Montgomary Barron’s portraits of many now-canonized visual artists (including Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman) and social luminaries (such as Bianca Jagger) to Les Simpson’s blithe snapshots of club kids and drag queens.

Many of the images in the show highlight the burgeoning punk and later new wave and Hip Hop music scenes with portraits of Madonna and The Clash by Amy Arbus, and Run DMC by Janette Beckman.

The range of fashions of the era are well documented by Gunar Roze’s portraits of people on the streets and Keizo Kitajima’s gritty shots of downtown nightlife.

Exhibition runs through till July 3rd, 2013

ClampArt
531 W 25th St
New York
NY
10001
USA

clampart.com

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