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

brucesilverstein.com

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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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SEVEN DAYS – THE STILL LIFES OF CHUCK RAMIREZ

Posted on 2025-12-08

Seven Days: The Still Lifes of Chuck Ramirez brings to light a vivid and heartfelt exploration of community, memory, and cultural identity through the lens of one of Texas’s most beloved contemporary artists. Centered on Ramirez’s celebrated series Seven Days, the exhibition gathers seven large-scale photographs that transform scenes of everyday life into poignant meditations on time, celebration, and transience. Each image captures the remnants of a meal, a cup, a plate, a bottle, objects left behind after gatherings that speak to shared moments of joy and remembrance.

Opposite – Birthday Party, 2003

Exhibition runs through to January 4th, 2026

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth
TX 76107

www.cartermuseum.org

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DAWOUD BEY – ELEGY

Posted on 2025-12-08

Elegy brings together three powerful photographic series—Stony the Road (2023), In This Here Place (2019), and Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017)—to explore how the landscapes of Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio continue to hold the echoes of America’s past. Through these deeply reflective works, Bey reconsiders sites marked by slavery and resistance, transforming them into spaces where memory, imagination, and history converge. The exhibition also features two films, Evergreen (2019) and 350,000 (2023), expanding the dialogue between still and moving images while delving into the emotional resonance of these charged locations.

Opposite – Untitled (James River Through the Opening), 2023

Exhibition runs through to January 4th, 2026

NOMA – New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park
New Orleans
LA 70124

noma.org/

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MICHEL KAMENI – PORTRAITS OF AN INDEPENDENT AFRICA

Posted on 2025-12-08

This exhibition brings renewed attention to the remarkable portraits created by Cameroonian studio photographer Michel Kameni, whose work at Studio KM in Yaoundé captured a young nation in the midst of defining itself. The fifty-five photographs on view were made during the 1960s and 1970s, a period when Cameroon, newly independent, witnessed an energetic reshaping of cultural identity, social mobility, and personal expression. Within this setting, Kameni’s studio became both a meeting point and a stage—a place where individuals could present themselves as they wished to be seen.

Founded in 1963, Studio KM quickly drew visitors from across social backgrounds. Kameni possessed a rare ability to read the desires and personalities of the people who stepped before his camera. Each portrait was a collaboration, resulting in what were often called nyanga photographs: images carefully crafted to convey pride, confidence, and aspiration. People came to mark life’s milestones, to share pictures with loved ones, or simply to show the world who they were becoming in a time of change.

Opposite – Untitled (three women, hand dresses), 1970s

Exhibition runs through to January 4th, 2026

SCMA – Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton
MA 01063

scma.smith.edu

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