IAN FRANCIS – ENDLESS SUMMER

Posted on 2014-09-01

Endless Summer continues the artist’s ongoing investigation into contemporary issues facing the human condition, presenting a new body of identically-sized studies that capture suspended snapshots of modern life. After spending the past few months oversaturated in summer photos and bombarded with random imagery, Francis began his exploration into how these moments collide and the way in which we interact with and relate to them. Fascinated by the circumstances enabling such randomly selected images and ideas to coexist, the artist questions the result of this crosssection in time, whether they align or fall apart and their reference point in history in relation to our past and future.

Endless Summer provides a democratic display of ultra-modern artworks, each meticulously painted on a uniform panel, shifting the viewer’s attention between myriad suggestive open-ended narratives.

Exhibition runs through to October 4th, 2014

The Outsiders
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG

www.theoutsiders.net

  

JUSTINE KURLAND – SINCERE AUTO CARE

Posted on 2014-09-01

Kurland is known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them. For her last exhibition at the gallery, The Train is Bound for Glory (2009), Kurland spent two years driving through the expansive American West documenting trains in open vistas and the subculture of train-hoppers and drifters around them. The 2007 series Of Woman Born, also photographed on the road, features unclothed mothers and their children whom Kurland met and befriended along the way.

For her most recent series, on view in this exhibition, Kurland returns to a purely documentary style in the tradition of Walker Evans. Cars, the culture of the mechanic, and the open road are Kurland’s subjects, drawing on her 12 years of experience with life on the road. The photographs in Sincere Auto Care balance two competing narratives: the first is the car as an aspirational symbol of freedom, sex, the American Dream, and the second is the bleakness of daily life behind the scenes.

With this body of work, Kurland presents a reality where utopia and dystopia are not polar opposites, but rather fold together in an uneasy coexistence. The formal elegance of the photos and Kurland’s eye for teasing romance and beauty out of her subjects gives rise to a sense of detached optimism, or as Kurland herself describes, a place “where beauty is found not because the world is beautiful but because it is beautifully described.”

Opposite – Construction, Disputes, Training, 2014

Exhibition runs through to October 11th, 2014

Mitchell-Innes & Nash
534 West 26th Street
New York
NY 10001

www.miandn.com

  

CONSTRUCTING WORLDS

Posted on 2014-09-01

Constructing Worlds brings together eighteen exceptional photographers from the 1930s to the present day who have changed the way we view architecture and perceive the world around us.

From the first skyscrapers in New York and decaying colonial structures in the Congo, to the glamorous suburban homes of post-war California, and the modern towers of Venezuela, we invite you on a global journey through 20th and 21st century architecture.

Featuring over 250 works, this exhibition highlights the power of photography to reveal hidden truths in our society.

Opposite – Nadav Kander

Exhibition runs through to January 11th, 2015

Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS

www.barbican.org.uk

  

RON ENGLISH – DRUG ‘EM KILLFROG

Posted on 2014-09-01

Stimulate your nucleus accumbens with a non-addictive, high fructose free designer toy! The fifth in the Cereal Killers Last Breakfast series, “Drug Em Killfrog” is cast in vinyl and stands 8″ tall.

www.popaganda.com

  

GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!

Posted on 2014-09-01

The show includes more than 50 photographs by some of the greatest photographers of the world’s most gorgeous girls including Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Jerry Hall, Shalom Harlow, Eva Herzigova, Kristen McMenamy, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour, Dita Von Teese, Christy Turlington, and Rachel Weisz.

Opposite – Marco Glaviano, Cindy Gold Kiss, 2013

Exhibition runs from September 16th to October 25th, 2014

The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ

www.thelittleblackgallery.com