ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA – DISORDER

Posted on 2025-12-22

Drawing on photography, performance, and sculptural object-making, the artist continues her exploration of existence, memory, and the fragile ties between body and identity. Her use of unconventional materials, including animal skins and hyperrealistic replicas, creates a space where reality and artifice continuously overlap.

In this new presentation, Grzeszykowska turns to those closest to her—family members, pets, and her own physical presence—to question the familiar order of domestic life. Through carefully staged scenes, she shifts roles and blurs categories: humans adopt animal gestures, animals become uncanny mirrors of their owners, and the artist steps into versions of herself that belong to different times. These disruptions unsettle distinctions between human and animal, youth and age, what is alive and what merely resembles life.

Opposite – Daughter # 04, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

Voloshyn Gallery
802 NW 22nd Street
Miami
FL 33127

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MATTHEW BRANDT – FROM THE ASHES

Posted on 2025-12-22

The exhibition brings together five series—Dust, January Skies, Florida Strangler, Eagles, and Wai‘anae—each exploring how photography’s physical and chemical roots can reflect the social and environmental realities they depict. For Brandt, the photographic medium is never neutral; it carries the history, material, and atmosphere of the place it represents. His process often incorporates soil, ash, or water gathered from the sites he photographs, transforming each print into a living trace of its origin.

Created specifically for this exhibition, his new Dust works revisit historic San Francisco architecture, using pigments made from dust collected at the sites of demolished buildings. These time-worn images collapse past and present, offering a meditation on transformation, decay, and the persistence of memory. In January Skies, Brandt captures Los Angeles’ wildfire-smoked skies by transferring pigments from inkjet prints onto plaster, resulting in fractured, fresco-like surfaces that echo both destruction and renewal.

Opposite – Panama Pacific International Fair_AAE-0780, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

Haines Gallery
2 Marina Boulevard, Building C
San Francisco
CA 94123

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SURFACE / SIGNAL – OWEN KYDD AND KYLE TATA

Posted on 2025-12-22

Surface / Signal: Owen Kydd and Kyle Tata brings together two daring voices from Los Angeles who push the limits of what photography can be — dissolving boundaries between stillness and motion, between image and object, between documentation and abstraction. Their work invites viewers to reconsider how we perceive reality, memory, and material presence.

For Owen Kydd, photographs are not endings — they are beginnings. His recent series treats rooms, streets, windows, and fleeting atmospheres as raw material. Once captured, the digital image becomes pliable: layered, adjusted, stretched. The result lives somewhere between photography and film: a suspended moment dissolves into duration, and what seems like a snapshot begins to breathe. In Kydd’s world, seeing is an act of patience — a call to linger until what is hidden makes itself known.

Kyle Tata counters the instantaneousness of the photographic moment with a physical, visceral intervention. By abrading, bleaching, and inking negatives, he disrupts clarity, allowing presence and absence to collide on paper. His photographs are not documentation — they are encounters. The marks become traces of time, memory, and erosion. What remains isn’t just a scene, but an impression, a ghost of something that once was and is now transformed.

Opposite – Kyle Tata, Convex Hull with Prisms Version 4, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

Casemore Gallery
1275 Minnesota Street, #102
San Francisco
CA 94107

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LEE FRIEDLANDER – CHRISTMAS

Posted on 2025-12-15

Spanning from 1958 to 2015, the photographs in this exhibition trace nearly seven decades of American life as seen through Friedlander’s sharp and playful eye. The images drawn from streets, shop windows, living rooms, and gatherings across the United States, transform Christmas into a rich visual metaphor for culture, community, and contradiction. His lens captures both the warmth and absurdity of the season, balancing humor with a deep understanding of human complexity.

Opposite – San Angelo, Texas, 1997

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

Deborah Bell Photographs
526 West 26th Street, Room 411
New York
NY 10001

www.deborahbellphotographs.com

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KEITH SMITH – SYNECDOCHE

Posted on 2025-12-15

The title, meaning “a part that stands for the whole,” encapsulates Smith’s enduring exploration of how fragments, images, gestures, or stitched patterns, can reveal the complexity of an entire life or idea. As Smith himself once declared, “pictures can, no, must give up their sovereignty for the sake of the total.”

The exhibition gathers over forty works from Smith’s formative years between the 1960s and 1980s, a period of fervent innovation in photography and bookmaking. Drawn from his personal archive, these collages, stitched portraits, fabric works, postcards, and artist books trace an artist who has continuously reinvented his medium to express themes of intimacy, identity, and transformation. His art refuses to remain confined by the traditional boundaries of photography, instead merging image, text, and tactile materials into deeply personal and conceptual forms.

Opposite – Multiple Exposure with Remark (a la Picasso Etching), 1966

Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2026

Bruce Silverstein Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York
NY 10011

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ROSE MARIE CROMWELL – A GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Posted on 2025-12-15

The series follows Cromwell, her mother, and her young daughter as they travel through Western terrains marked by history and transformation. Portraits of the three generations are woven with images of weathered rocks, mining remnants, and fragile natural formations, revealing a landscape that holds both wounds and wonder. Through this intimate perspective, Cromwell reclaims the Western myth from its traditional narratives of conquest and masculinity, reframing it as a space of nurturing, reckoning, and renewal.

Opposite – The Cave, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

EUQINOM Gallery
49 Geary Street, Suite 417
San Francisco
CA 94108

www.euqinomgallery.com

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