LUKE SMALLEY – EXERCISE AT HOME
2019-01-07ClampArt presents “Luke Smalley (1955-2009) – Exercise at Home” in celebration of the 10th-year anniversary of the premiere of the body of work. This is the artist’s third solo show at the gallery.
Smalley passed away far too young at the age of 53, but he left behind three major bodies of work, in addition to four impressive monographs. The new show at ClampArt will feature his second project, and his first in color, titled “Exercise at Home.”
Luke Smalley’s work has been described as pairing “a coolly minimalist aesthetic with a retro nostalgia.” Many of his images were inspired by yearbooks and fitness manuals from the beginning of the 20th century. After completing a degree at Pepperdine University—tellingly, in sports medicine—Smalley became increasingly interested in fine art (while earning money from modeling and working as a personal trainer). He spent fifteen years completing his first body of work, “Gymnasium”—a series of black-and-white gelatin silver prints depicting young, male athletes set in an ambiguous time and place. The subjects of the photographs were all local high school students from the small Pennsylvania town where the artist was raised.
Opposite – Exercise at Home
Exhibition runs through to January 19th, 2019
ClampArt
521 – 531 West 25th Street
New York
10001 NY
