MEGHANN RIEPENHOFF – ICE

Posted on 2021-12-27

Haines Gallery proudly presents Meghann Riepenhoff: Ice, an exhibition of new and recent works created in winter landscapes across Colorado, Wisconsin, and the artist’s home state of Washington. This is Riepenhoff’s first solo exhibition with Haines Gallery.Meghann Riepenhoff (b. 1979, lives and works in Bainbridge Island, WA) creates her camera-less cyanotypes in collaboration with the elements, placing paper coated with homemade emulsion directly within the landscape. As they make contact with photographic materials, weather and water work together to produce lush, complex surfaces that invite us to consider the power and grace of the natural world. Ice features works from Riepenhoff’s latest series of the same title, which she began in 2015. Expanding on her earlier bodies of work-Littoral Drift and Ecotone-Riepenhoff creates her Ice cyanotypes in freezing waters, from the snow banks of Aspen to remote creeks in western Washington.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2022

Haines Gallery
49 Geary Street
San Francisco
CA 94108

hainesgallery.com

  

IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM – A RETROSPECTIVE

Posted on 2021-12-27

Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective showcases the endless innovation and profound influence of this remarkable photographer who pushed the boundaries for both women in the arts and photography as an art form. Nearly 200 of Cunningham’s insightful portraits, elegant flower and plant studies, poignant street pictures, and groundbreaking nudes present a singular vision developed over seven decades of work. The first major retrospective in the United States of Cunningham’s work in 35 years, the exhibition examines on the artist’s Seattle upbringing and includes works by female artists such as Ruth Asawa and Martha Graham who Cunningham championed, as well as works by Group f/64 which she helped found with Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and others. Cunningham’s spark of creative possibility asserted photography as a distinct and valuable art form in the 20th century.

Exhibition runs through to February 6th, 2022

Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
1300 First Ave
Seattle
WA 98101

www.seattleartmuseum.org

  

MIMI CHERONO NG’OK

Posted on 2021-12-27

For more than a decade, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok has worked to understand how natural environments, botanical cultures, and human subjects coexist and evolve together. Working with an analog camera, she travels extensively across the tropical climates of the Global South constructing a visual archive of images that document her daily experiences and aid her in processing emotions and memories.

Opposite – Untitled, 2019

Exhibition runs through to February 7th, 2022

Art Institute Of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago
IL 60603

www.artic.edu

  

PAULETTE TAVORMINA – SEIZING BEAUTY

Posted on 2021-12-20

Still-life photography enables me to create an environment, choose objects to tell a story, and then direct them to create the fantasy I have in mind. This goes full circle back to my first love- curating and arranging things. Beyond just the beauty, I want the viewer to see as I see, to feel the emotion I feel when a leaf balances just-so and points the eye to the next narrative that is part of the larger work. This beauty all around us is fleeting, and yet can be embedded forever in a perfect moment that is a photograph. Creating these heartfelt vignettes allows me an avenue to explore the intimate moments of my life, to tell stories of love and loss, of joy and sorrow, all the while feeling grateful for the rich abundance of life, and somehow seizing that beauty.

Opposite – Dutch Tulips and Goldfish, 2021

Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2022

Gilman Contemporary
661 Sun Valley Road
Ketchum
ID 83340

www.gilmancontemporary.com

  

ANITA THACHER – LOOSE CORNER

Posted on 2021-12-20

Microscope is very pleased to present Loose Corner, the third solo exhibition at the gallery of works by Anita Thacher (d. 2017). Loose Corner concentrates on an eponymous 16mm film installation, begun in 1980 and completed in 1986, employing surrealistic sensibilities and optical illusions created with analog film printing techniques to address everyday life and dreams within the domestic realm. A selection of associated photographs from a 1980 series created with optical processes, stage sets and cast of characters similar to those in the film is also on view. The exhibition follows the 16mm film component’s preservation by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year.

Opposite – Untitled (child and dog), 1980

Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2022

Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor
New York
NY 10001

microscopegallery.com

  

SARAH MOON – AT THE STILL POINT

Posted on 2021-12-20

A fashion photographer with a deeply literary approach to her work, Sarah Moon has the incredible ability to create dream-like, otherworldly photography in both her editorial work and more narrative series. Her distinctive painterly, storybook-esque visual style transports the viewer to a world where the lines between reality and fantasy blur among deep color tones, melancholic moods, and abstract shapes.

Opposite – Les chiens de Maria 2000

Exhibition runs through to February 6th, 2022

Fotografiska New York
281 Park Ave South/22nd
New York
NY 10010

www.fotografiska.com