Photography : EXIT

SEGREGATED INFLUENCES

Posted on 2018-05-28

The Colorado Photographic Arts Center is pleased to present Segregated Influences, an exhibition that explores the complex history of race in America through the photographs of Wendel White, Distinguished Professor of Art at Stockton University, and Tya Alisa Anthony, a Denver-based visual artist.

In Schools for the Colored, White photographs the architectural remains of structures once used as segregated schools for African Americans in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The exhibition presents 20 black-and-white images of school buildings that appear isolated from their surrounding landscapes, which are obscured from view using digital techniques. This technique is a representation of W.E.B. DuBois’ famous concept of “the veil,” a metaphor for the divide that separates the lives of black and white Americans.

Exhibition runs through to June 2nd, 2018

Colorado Photographic Art Center
1070 Bannock Street
Denver
80204 CO

cpacphoto.org

SALLY MANN – A THOUSAND CROSSINGS

Posted on 2018-05-21

For more than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of work is that it is all bred of a place, the American South. A native of Lexington, Virginia, Mann has long written about what it means to live in the South and be identified as a southerner. Using her deep love of her native land and her knowledge of its fraught history, she asks provocative questions—about history, identity, race, and religion—that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings considers how Mann’s relationship with this land has shaped her work and how the legacy of the South—as both homeland and graveyard, refuge and battleground—continues to permeate American identity.

Opposite – Deep South, Untitled (Fontainebleau), 1998

Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2018

National Gallery of Art
4th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington
20565 DC

www.nga.gov

ARTHUR GRIFFIN – THE DIVERS

Posted on 2018-05-21

We all remember that suspenseful moment. The one right before you jump, when your feet are still on the ground, and time slows down as you contemplate leaping into the unknown water below. For some, the experience is one of play and excitement. For others the recollection may incite different feelings, possibly of anxiety and fear or of wonder at what lies beneath in the water below. These images, culled from Arthur Griffin’s archives, are frozen transitory moments depicting divers suspended in air and swimmers floating in water. Now frozen in time, Arthur Griffin has captured these brief moments in between take off and landing and just before they sliced the water. The images are reminiscent of childhood, of places hidden in the woods reserved for summer vacations, or of public city pools, where children gather to keep cool. Arthur’s photographs are reflections of a familiar experience; one that many can recollect.

Opposite – Two Boys Jumping

Exhibition runs through to June 9th, 2018

Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester
01890 MA

griffinmuseum.org

DOUGLAS STOCKDALE

Posted on 2018-05-21

Douglas Stockdale (American) is an artist, educator and mentor, the Editor & founder (2008) of The PhotoBook Journal (TPBJ), consultant to LensCulture and on the faculty of Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP).

Stockdale’s artistic projects and books investigate various aspects of memory with an emphasis on the preservation of memory, family and society. He primarily uses the photographic medium in his artistic practices. His limited edition artist book Bluewater Shore was self-published in 2017 as a sequel to his earlier limited edition artist book Pine Lake (2013). Both of these were recognized as one of the Best Photography Books for 2017 and 2014 respectively. His photo-documentary Ciociaria was published by Punctum Edizioni (Rome) in 2011.

Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2018

Fabrik Projects
2636 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles
90034 CA

fabrikprojects.com

AMANDA MARCHAND – TRUE NORTH

Posted on 2018-05-14

True North is a recent body of work that explores the experience of light within the natural landscape. Made during a residency in rural Finland in January, 2015—the darkest time of the year, when the sun is closest to the horizon—these color photographs capture a state of mind more than the specifics of a place. Sprawling fields are blanketed with snow, obscuring the surroundings, while also allowing for small details to emerge from the frozen landscape. Responding to winter’s monotone palette, Marchand became acutely aware of the delicate play of light against the snow and sky, especially the “blue” period of day lasting one hour at dawn and twilight. Comprised of single prints and groupings of images, True North reflects meditative silence, the slow passage of time, and a heightened awareness of even the subtlest transitions in light and color.

Also known for her creative writing, Marchand’s photographic work and books of poetry often intertwine visual ideas with text. For this exhibition, Marchand has created a new artist book: The Book of Hours, as well as a site-specific installation that echoes the verbal rhythms of language. She mines the expressive in the natural world—shifting horizon lines, fleeting weather patterns, and the moments where vertical objects punctuate the quiet landscape—and presents them as pictorial sequences and visual sentences. With this series, Marchand asks the simple question “What happens when you pay attention?”

Opposite – Axis, 2018

Exhibition runs through to May 19th, 2018

Traywick Contemporary
895 Colusa Ave
Berkeley
94707 CA

www.traywick.com

VITAL FORMS: A CELEBRATION OF DENIS BRIHAT

Posted on 2018-05-14

A celebration of Brihat’s legacy on the occasion of his 90th birthday, Vital Forms brings together a selection of rare, one-of-a-kind prints that represent the peak of the artist’s unparalleled stylistic and technical achievements. Born in Paris in 1928, Brihat has lived and worked for sixty years on the isolated Plateau des Claparèdes in Provence, a region that also served as home and inspiration for Paul Cézanne and Samuel Beckett.

The transformative power of the natural world in its most vital and elemental forms is both the subject of Brihat’s photographs and the technical basis for his prints. With an eye that is both generous and exacting, Brihat unearths and brings to light the dazzling beauty of a humble onion, a wisp of wild oats, and a bumpy, speckled pear; he lavishes equal attention upon each of a gardenia’s individual petals. In much the same way, he mines the earth for the tools he brings to the darkroom: the salts of gold, iron, selenium, vanadium, and uranium, among other metals, with which he meticulously and laboriously tones each black-and-white print. The reaction of these metallic salts with the silver salts in the emulsion produces Brihat’s distinctively vivid and luminous hues.

Opposite – Pelure d’oignon (Onion skin), 1982

Exhibition runs through to May 19th, 2018

Nailya Alexander Gallery
41 East 57th Street
Suite 704
New York
10022 NY

www.nailyaalexandergallery.com