SHUTTER SPEED

Posted on 2019-10-28

Comprising more than 60 works on paper from the AMAM collection, Shutter Speed explores the ability of photography to capture movement, particularly of the human body. The exhibition spans the history of photography, from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th, stretching from Eadweard Muybridge’s attempts to arrest motion with the camera shutter to Harold Edgerton’s experiments with the stroboscope, and on to Sarah Charlesworth’s appropriated images of falling subjects.

Exhibition runs through to December 15th, 2019

Allen Memorial Art Museum
87 North Main Street
Oberlin
44074 OH

www2.oberlin.edu

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ROE ETHRIDGE – SANCTUARY 2

Posted on 2019-10-21

In Ethridge’s new photograph Oslo Grace at Willets Point, the subject gives a knowing smile, their gaze falling just left of the camera. Sitting on a reflective pink mat, with a vanitas-style bounty of fruits, they appear to be almost copied and pasted into the muddy, tow lot that they turn their back towards. This gesture is seemingly reciprocated by both Citi Field Stadium towering above, with its billboards and LED screens enacting a similar disconnect to their surroundings, and the image itself, which despite its cues, refuses to fit squarely as a meditation on gentrification nor as an uncanny celebration of artifice. This tension is at the core of Ethridge’s practice, and the exhibition, as he assumes the medium’s traditional role as society’s mirror, while simultaneously upending this through an ongoing questioning of the relationship between contemporary images and truth.

Opposite – Dollar General, Del Rio, TN, 2019

Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2019

Andrew Kreps Gallery
22 Cortlandt Alley
10013 New York
USA

www.andrewkreps.com/

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ALEX TIMMERMANS – STORYTELLING

Posted on 2019-10-21

Dutch photographer Alex Timmermans is a storyteller. Known for his use of the collodion wet plate photography process, Timmermans creates enchanting images and like his fairy tale images, the process he employs is the antithesis to predictability; little twists of fate coming together for the final scene. Timmermans is a self-taught photographer who has practiced photography his entire life. However, when the change from analog to digital came about he found with it came predictability and less excitement. For Timmermans, working with the wet plate process made photography inspiring again. In a long tradition of photographers drawn to its unique aesthetic, such as Sally Mann, Joni Sterbach and the Ostermans, Timmermans uses this process to achieve unforgettable images that have a dreamy quality and an aura of mystery.

Opposite – Not My Cup of Tea

Exhibition runs through to December 16th, 2019

Gilman Contemporary
661 Sun Valley Road
Ketchum
83340 ID

www.gilmancontemporary.com

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BENJAMIN FREDRICKSON

Posted on 2019-10-21

The exhibition will include small scale black and white and color photographs made with paper negatives and traditional large format analog film. Many of the photographs have been created in Fredrickson’s basement studio with lighting alluding to his artistic ancestors George Platt Lynes, The Athletic Model Guild and Robert Mapplethorpe among others.

In this exhibition Fredrickson continues to walk the line between raunch and exquisite beauty. He expresses desire with finely tuned explicit imagery and he explores vanity, fetish, exhibitionism and photographing as an erotic act. He also implicates himself as a blissful observer and participant of erotic play. As this is Fredrickson’s first exhibition since the introduction of PrEP perhaps we see he and his subjects with more emotional and physical liberty and less fear.

Fredrickson also pays homage to centuries of traditional art genres with his models unceremoniously submitting to observation by him and the gallery audience. An astute observer will see references to 19th century photographic portraiture and early European painting. The observer will also be lured to examine seductive bodies contorted and exposed for their consideration.

Opposite – Derek, 2016

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2019

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
508 – 526 West 26th Street
New York
10001 NY

www.danielcooneyfineart.com

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JOHN PFAHL – ALTERED LANDSCAPES

Posted on 2019-10-14

The exhibition will present a selection of vintage dye transfer color photographs that the artist printed in the late 1970s, as well as larger archival pigment prints of the series most celebrated images.

In his series Altered Landscapes, Pfahl physically changes the environment, fabricating the view to question our perception of the landscape through added elements that reference mark-making devices associated with photographs, maps, plans, and diagrams. These gestures sometimes repeat strong formal components; fill in information suggested by the scene, or act upon information external to the photograph itself. The picturesque scenes are at once interrupted and completed by the artist’s involvement in creating the photograph.

Opposite – Monument Valley with Red String, Monument Valley, Utah, 1977

Exhibition runs through to December 13th, 2019

Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
92037 CA

www.josephbellows.com

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WENDY RED STAR – BAAEETITCHISH

Posted on 2019-10-14

Wendy Red Star makes art that arises from her Native American cultural heritage and family history, as well as her expansive interest in photography, video, sound, sculpture, fiber arts, and performance. Red Star’s artistic practice involves ongoing research into historical archives and narratives, which she thoughtfully deconstructs to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialism’s unsettling effects on past and present.

Red Star grew up on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. Her exhibition title, Baaeétitchish (One Who Is Talented), references the Crow name she received while visiting home this past summer. It was the original name of her grand-uncle, Clive Francis Dust, Sr., known in the family for his creativity as a cultural keeper. Clearly, Red Star carries that same spirit as an artist. “By carving out space in the contemporary art world,” says Red Star, “I hope it will make it easier for the next generation of Native women artists to gain access to institutions and opportunities.” Red Star’s powerful exhibition at Light Work brings together four photography-based projects produced between 2006 and 2016.

Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2019

Light Work Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
316 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse
13244 NY

www.lightwork.org

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