1911 SUNSET BOULEVARD

Posted on 2026-09-07

Gallery Luisotti is pleased to present 1911 Sunset Boulevard, an exhibition of works by six contemporary artists made in response to the former Taix French Restaurant in Echo Park. Comprising photographs, altered photographic works, and a single painting, the exhibition follows Taix through its final months, its closing night, and the landscape left by its demolition. The exhibition takes its title from the restaurant’s address.

For more than sixty years, Taix occupied a singular place on Sunset Boulevard. Its dining rooms, banquet halls, lounges, murals, and upholstered booths formed an interior world at once theatrical and familiar, too large and layered to take in whole. Private dinners gave way to performances, parties, meetings, and nights that continued long after anyone had stopped ordering.

Opposite – Maxfield Hegedus, Bar, 2026

Exhibition runs through to September 12th, 2026

Gallery Luisotti
818 South Broadway 10th floor
Los Angeles
CA 90014

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CONSTANCE THALKEN – HEART OF A BIRD

Posted on 2026-09-07

Thalken’s work does not romanticize the landscape. Traveling in a VW camper van, she moved through remote areas where the human presence appears secondary to the environment. The images take in fishing communities, marshes, and the annual alligator harvest, framing them as places where dependence, labor, and risk remain visible. Her photographs hold a steady line between reverence and unease, showing a world in which people and animals share instinct, vulnerability, and an ending that no one can avoid.

Born in Nebraska and based in Atlanta, Thalken studied psychology before earning her MFA in photography at Yale, a background that helps explain the psychological acuity of her work. Her photographs are held in major public collections, and her practice has drawn consistent attention for its clarity and restraint. Heart of a Bird extends that language into a body of work that treats nature not as backdrop, but as an active and often unforgiving presence.

Opposite – Cold Storage 10′ 7″ #2, 1991

Exhibition runs through to September 12th, 2026

Whitespace
814 Edgewood Ave
Atlanta
GA 30307

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CALLAHAN, GOWIN AND SOMMER

Posted on 2026-09-07

Etherton Gallery, brings together three defining figures of twentieth-century American photography in a tightly focused exhibition built on dialogue, influence, and shared inquiry. Centered on the work of Emmet Gowin, the presentation traces a lineage that connects his formative years under Harry Callahan with his enduring friendship with Frederick Sommer, offering a rare opportunity to consider their practices in direct conversation.

Opposite – Emmet Gowin, Nancy, Danville, Virginia,1969

Exhibition runs through to September 19th, 2026

Etherton Gallery
340 South Convent Avenue
Tucson
AZ 85701

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THE LINDA MCCARTNEY RETROSPECTIVE – FROM THE LIGHT

Posted on 2026-09-01

Born Linda Louise Eastman in Scarsdale, New York, McCartney studied art history and took some photography classes before shaping her own approach behind the camera. She began in the magazine world, worked at Town & Country, and then moved into music photography, where her pictures of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin and the Beatles brought her wider recognition. Her photograph of Mick Jagger on the Hudson helped establish her as a serious photographer, and her Eric Clapton cover image for Rolling Stone made her the first woman to appear on that magazine’s cover with a photograph.

The exhibition also shows the private side of her work. McCartney photographed Paul McCartney, their children and the places they traveled, often turning family life into a visual diary. Music remained central to her life as well, from her marriage to Paul in 1969 to her years performing with Wings and her own musical contribution to “Seaside Woman,” released under the name Suzy and the Red Stripes. The pictures in the show reflect that mix of public and private identity.

Opposite – Lucky Spot in Daisy Field, Sussex, 1985

Exhibition runs through to September 7th, 2026

Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80 (Lake Road)
Cooperstown
NY 13326

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RUTH THORNE-THOMSEN

Posted on 2026-09-01

Thorne-Thomsen is known for staging scenes in landscapes, then photographing them again to create images that feel at once precise and unsettled. She often worked with pinhole apertures and handmade setups, building compositions in which foreground and background merge and ordinary space takes on an unfamiliar logic. The results are carefully made but never straightforward. Stones, water, fragments of architecture and human figures appear in settings that feel both real and invented.

The exhibition includes works from Expeditions, a series shaped by the visual language of early archaeological photography, and from Views from the Shoreline, where echoes of Renaissance portraiture are filtered through a surreal, compressed space. Other series, including Songs of the Sea and Proverbs, show her continued interest in myth, narrative suggestion and symbolic form. Across the work, the atmosphere remains controlled but dreamlike, with each image carrying a sense of quiet tension.

Opposite – Eiffel Tower, Paris, Place Series, 1979

Exhibition runs through to September 11th, 2026

Daniel Cooney
1600 Lena Street, Suite F5
Santa Fe
NM 87505

www.danielcooneyfineart.com

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BEV GRANT – PHOTOGRAPHS FROM CUBA, 1969

Posted on 2026-09-01

The photographs record a country in motion and a political project under construction. Grant’s lens follows Fidel Castro at Revolution Square, schools created to expand literacy in rural communities, the Moncada Barracks, and farms across the countryside. Taken in 1969, these images now carry a sharper historical edge, reflecting a moment when Cuba’s revolution remained central to international debate and when the island’s social programs were closely watched by visitors from abroad.

Grant’s approach was never detached. Her work emerged from participation, not observation at a distance, and that is visible here in the directness of the pictures. The photographs register public ceremony, education, labor and landscape without flattening them into propaganda. They stand as records of lived political commitment, shaped by a photographer who moved through the 1960s as an activist, feminist and member of Newsreel, while also working alongside the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords and women’s liberation groups.

Opposite – Fidel Castro Speaking at Revolution Square on January 2, 1969

Exhibition runs through to September 12th, 2026

OSMOS
50 E 1st St
New York
NY 10003

www.osmos.online

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