REVERBERATION

Posted on 2020-08-10

Since ancient times, through the Renaissance and up to the present day, artists have recontextualized the ideas, images and styles of their predecessors. In this online exhibition Reverberation, the work of Sharon Core, Ori Gersht, Jitka Hanzlová and Hellen Van Meene raises questions about influence, appropriation, originality and authorship. Utilizing a variety of approaches, each artist draws upon the work of recognized painters to produce photographs that destabilize the distinction between painting and photography and blur the boundary between past and present. All four artists bring the present into contact with the past to create what Walter Benjamin described as “dialectical images”, in which the relationship of past to present is not one of linear time, but of constant negotiation.

Opposite – Early American, Melons and Morning Glory, 2008

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2020

Yancey Richardson – Online Viewing Romm
525 W 22nd St
New York
NY 10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com

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VANESSA MARSH – THE SUN BENEATH THE SKY

Posted on 2020-08-10

Marsh’s minimal, graphic images feature empyrean, enigmatic, and often surreal landscapes that speak to forms of power—natural, cosmological, and man-made—as well to the sublime and its attendant enchantments and contradictions. While her mixed-media process is based in photographic techniques, Marsh does not work with a camera. She instead layers cut-paper silhouettes on top of photosensitive paper, making multiple exposures that she further manipulates through dodging and burning techniques.

Opposite – Mt. Hozomeen 1, Daybreak, North Cascades, Washington, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2020

Dolby Chadwick Gallery
210 Post Street, Suite 205
San Francisco
CA 94108

www.dolbychadwickgallery.com

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CHERYL MEDOW – NEW WORKS

Posted on 2020-08-10

Art photographer Cheryl Medow focuses her lens on the avian world to heighten awareness of the importance of these sublime creatures. Since early childhood, whether tending chickens or mimicking the sound of birds, Medow has always had an affection toward these beautiful and evolutionary prehistoric winged beings.

Medow’s first step in creating images is to put herself in nature, traveling to environments where diverse species of birds live; sometimes as close as her backyard, but more often traveling to places far from home. While waiting for the precise moment to capture the image, she studies the surroundings, allowing her to better understand birds in their home environment, looking for food, balancing on a tree branch, hiding from predators, building a nest, courting and fighting for territory; these moments are fascinating and enable her an opportunity for her curiosity and imagination to find expression.

Opposite – Great Egret Family in the Storm, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2020

PDNB
154 Glass St. #104
Dallas
TX 75207

www.pdnbgallery.com

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SUNIL GUPTA – FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

Posted on 2020-08-03

From Here to Eternity is the first major retrospective of UK based photographer, Sunil Gupta (b. 1953, New Delhi India) and offers a complex and layered view of Gupta’s unique transcontinental photographic vision.

Exhibition runs October 9th, 2020 through January 24th, 2021

The Photographers’ Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW

thephotographersgallery.org.uk

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PAUL STETZER

Posted on 2020-08-03

The people of the United States have been struggling with the legacy of slavery. When George Floyd was killed by the police on May 25, 2020, a new stage in the battle for civil rights and justice erupted around the country. These images show people in New York City engaged in that struggle – with energy, determination, sadness, anger, hope, and vision.

Exhibition runs through to August 10th, 2020

Soho Photo Gallery
15 White Street
New York
NY 10013

www.sohophoto.com

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ZANELE MUHOLI

Posted on 2020-08-03

Since 2015, South African artist and visual activist Zanele Muholi has created an ongoing body of self-portraits called “Somnyama Ngonyama” (translated from Zulu as “Hail, the Dark Lioness”). Turning the camera on themself, the artist adopts different poses, characters and archetypes to address issues of race and representation. The resulting images explore themes of labour, racism, Eurocentrism and sexual politics, often commenting on events in South Africa’s history and Muholi’s experiences as a South African black queer person traveling abroad. By enhancing the contrast in the photographs, Muholi also emphasizes the darkness of their skin tone, reclaiming their blackness with pride and re-asserting its beauty.

Opposite – Vumani II, Boston, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2020

Yancey Richardson – Online Viewing Room
525 W 22nd St
New York
NY 10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com

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