REED ESTABROOK – AMERICAN ROADSIDE MONUMENTS

Posted on 2021-10-18

American Roadside Monuments is really about a Yankee kid’s encounter with the vastness of America and the American West. People of my generation would routinely travel across the country via automobile. I’d round-tripped it twice by the time I graduated college. But in 1971, in my first teaching job at the University of Illinois, I found myself on the prairie. I could look out my bedroom window and see the Panama Limited train headed south from Chicago to New Orleans. The tracks were six miles away: flat is an understatement. Every summer, we would escape the tyranny of green by driving west, and these structures became dominant. They are literally “MONUMENTS,” often handmade, quintessentially American, linking one to the life and lives of that place, and standing dramatically against the blue of the sky. They embodied that wonderful shared experience of roaming and discovery.” – Reed Estabrook.

Opposite – untitled, from American Roadside Monuments, c.1975

Exhibition runs through to November 27th, 2021

Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
CA 92037

www.josephbellows.com

  

MORTEN ANDENÆS – CHILD SMILED. BLANK STARES.

Posted on 2021-10-18

Like much of his work over the past decade, the 25 new photographic works on display revolve around fundamental questions pertaining to picture-making. What role do images play in how we perceive the world and each other, and what possibilities do we have of transcending or seeing beyond these horizons?

Home and the immediate family is a recurring theme in Andenæs’ work. This initial world of ours around the kitchen table is a breeding ground for conflicting emotions and narratives that must be renegotiated and reevaluated in the course of a lifetime. For the child, distinctions between you and I, myth and reality or home and world are blurry, and the photographic juxtapositions in the exhibition mirror this fluidity.

In Andenæs´ work an array of conflicting narratives are in play. Each image is allowed room to mirror the complexity of experienced reality without reducing it to simple slogans or analysis. In the photographs on display, details from art history and popular culture seep into familiar tropes like still-life, landscape studies and family portraiture, whilst Andenæs’ representations of well-known animals and objects vacillate between a picture-book matter-of-factness and an altogether more ambiguous and anthropomorphic approach.

Opposite – From left to right, from right to wrong, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 13th, 2021

Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway

galleririis.com

  

ROSALIND FOX SOLOMON – THE FORGOTTEN

Posted on 2021-10-18

The Forgotten draws from her extensive portfolio of work from 1976 – 2019. The show will coincide with the release of her MACK book, The Forgotten.
Pictures from The Forgotten introduce us to people who are chained to events in history that have permanently affected how they live. These events can never be forgotten. They often register on the body. They act as a reminder of incidents that others would like to forget.

Opposite – New York, 1987

Exhibition runs through to December 5th, 2021

Foley Gallery
59 Orchard Street
New York
NY 10002

galleririis.com

  

HOW SHE SEES

Posted on 2021-10-11

Inspired by exhibition: The New Women Behind The Camera, the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art jointly curated with the National Gallery of Art, How She Sees: Several Exceptional Women Photographers 1919 – 1970, seeks to highlight several female artists that all made significant contributions to the field of fine art photography and the art world as a whole. With works ranging from the early 1900’s up to the 1960’s, each of these women created compelling bodies of work: some revolutionary in changing the often predictable aesthetics of their time, while others opened doors and inspired many artists who came after them.

Opposite – Elisabeth Hase, Badeszenen, 1932-33

Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2021

Robert Mann Gallery
14 East 80Th Street
New York
NY 10075

www.robertmann.com

  

GOTTFRIED JÄGER – INTERSECTION OF COLOR

Posted on 2021-10-11

Known as one of the greatest figures in German photography, Gottfried Jäger (b. 1937, Burg near Magdeburg) is an exper-imental artist who, over the years, redefined the term “photography”. In breaking the boundaries of what the camera can accomplish, Jäger reexamines the objectivity of the photographic process. In 1968, during the movement of Concrete Art, Jäger developed the concept and theory of Generative Photography. In his words, it consists of “finding a new world inside the camera and trying to bring it out with methodical and analytical methods.”

Opposite – Multiple Optics 4.52, 1980

Exhibition runs through to November 27th, 2021

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
16 East 71st Street
New York
NY 10021

www.souslesetoilesgallery.net

  

CLAUDIA ANDUJAR – THE YANOMAMI STRUGGLE

Posted on 2021-10-11

For five decades, photographer Claudia Andujar (b. 1931) has dedicated her life and work to the indigenous Yanomami communities in the Amazon region of Northern Brazil. In the late 1970s, when the community found itself subjected to severe external threats, the Swiss-born photographer, who is based in São Paulo, began fighting for the Yanomami’s rights. She subsequently went on to join the community, thus deepening relations between them.
Her fourteen-year battle alongside Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa and other concerned parties led to an official demarcation of the community’s land in 1992. Today, Andujar’s activist efforts are as relevant as ever – as is illustrated by current events, such as the ongoing deforestation and environmental destruction caused by mining and ranching, human rights violations in the region or the spread of malaria and COVID-19. The exhibition brings into focus the humanitarian and environmental crises that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Opposite – The young Susi Korihana thëri swimming, infrared film, Catrimani, Roraima, 1972-74

Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2022

Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44 + 45
CH – 8400 Winterthur

www.fotomuseum.ch