Yang opens the exhibition with a series of photographic film stills that provide us with glimpses of what is to come. In addition to the photographs, Yang presents two new series of mixed media and photographic works, Sparrow and Island, that enrich the overarching investigations of light, time, and memory present in Sparrow on the Sea.
Exhibition runs through to July 26th, 2025
Marian Goodman Gallery
1120 Seward Street
Los Angeles
CA 90038
Her skillfully made, thiocarbamide-toned gelatin silver prints, in both 6 x 6 and 10 x 10 inch image size, are exceptionally beautiful, rendering many of these aluminum abodes with a radiant glow. Although some remain austere, sleek, and unadorned, many showcase their quirky individuality through various exterior customizations, interior design, and surrounding environments. Despite the limitations of space and construction of these modest, mobile dwellings, Brown’s tightly-cropped images share their inhabitants’ efforts for unique personalization and expression of identity.
Opposite – Trailers Collected, 63, 2008
Exhibition runs through to July 26th, 2025
Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
A 92037
Growing up in the Deep South often feels like growing up in a different time or country. The unique landscape, history and ways of being stand apart from the monolith of mainstream culture. Viewed from the outside as backwards and lacking; stereotypes of southerness are inert, and fail to include the South’s true complexity, enduring charm, and diversity. The reality of the South is lived, active and chosen every day. There’s a colloquialism here that “pretty is as pretty does”, or in other words, pleasant behavior always outweighs pleasant looks.
In this exhibition, featuring work from eight photographers collected by The Do Good Fund of Columbus, GA, each artist captures what we do—a farmer fashioning a scarecrow for his garden, parading dancers, or a brass band performing for a church service. These images convey the ways we live, with intricate layers of identity and belonging woven into the fabric of Southern life. These are decisive moments. Intimate portraits and landscapes alike embody the spirit of the South as lived and living.
Opposite – Jessica, Athens, Georgia, Mark Steinmetz
Exhibition runs through to July 23rd, 2025
The University of Alabama Gallery
620 Greensboro Avenue
Tuscaloosa
AL 35401
Blur / Obscure / Distort: Photography and Perception brings together photographs that are linked by the common objective of disrupting the viewer’s sense of time, space, place, or scale. Sometimes considered errors, photographic blur, distortion, and obfuscation have also been important creative and aesthetic strategies adopted by artists since the medium’s 19th-century inception. Highlighting photographs from the Norton’s Collection and a selection of special loans, this exhibition points to the constructed nature of perception and, in turn, photography’s vulnerability to manipulation even when it appears to show what is “real.”
Opposite – Whirling Melinda, Martin Kersels
Exhibition runs through to July 20th, 2025
Norton Museum of Art
1450 S. Dixie Highway
West Palm Beach
FL 33401
A lifelong resident of New Orleans, George Dureau (1930–2014) turned to photography in the 1970s, having previously established himself as a painter. His lens captured a deeply personal circle of friends, lovers, and fellow eccentrics, many of whom existed on the margins of society. Dureau’s photographs are known for their rigorous composition and profound empathy, portraying his subjects with dignity, tenderness, and heroic strength.
While Dureau remains lesser known to the broader public, his work holds iconic status among artists, historians, and curators. His photographs are widely studied by a new generation of creative minds who revere not only his artistic mastery but also his radical inclusivity and compassionate worldview—qualities that feel more resonant now than ever.
Opposite – Jerry Cherry, 1983
Exhibition runs through to July 19th, 2025
Daniel Cooney Fine Art
1600 Lena Street, #F5
Santa Fe
NM 87505
Conversations at a party in Oakland in 1932 changed the history of photography. At that gathering, several now-iconic Bay Area figures — including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston — banded together to form Group f.64, a collective dedicated to “true” photography and the rejection of the prevailing style of Pictorialism, which mimicked painting. The group’s name was technical, referring to the camera lens setting that permits the greatest depth of field, but their mission was creative: to make photographs of startling clarity and beauty that rivaled art made in other mediums. Although Group f.64 lasted for less than a year, its legacy endured, marking the Bay Area as an epicenter for modernist photography.
Opposite – Jim Jocoy, Muriel with bruised knees, 1980
Exhibition runs through to July 9th, 2025
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco
CA 94103
