MONA KUHN – PARADISE LOST

Posted on 2021-07-12

Paradise Lost, is a carefully curated selection of photographs from Mona Kuhn’s seminal series Evidence, in celebration of her new retrospective monograph Works (Thames & Hudson, 2021). The sensual and sun-drenched photographs of Evidence feel just as relevant as they did when they were first created, fifteen years ago in France. It was with this work that Kuhn first established her signature soft focus backgrounds and intimate communion with her subjects, a familiarity that continues to distinguish her portraiture today. As we anticipate a summer of somewhat fewer inhibitions, Paradise Lost encourages us to look forward by looking back at a series characterized by its sultry, idyllic classicism.

Opposite – Natalie (girl laying on sunchair, looking with one eye), 2003

Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2021

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com

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MARIO GIACOMELLI – FIGURE/GROUND

Posted on 2021-07-12

Known for his gritty, black-and-white images, Mario Giacomelli is recognized as one of the foremost Italian photographers of the 20th century. Drawn from the Getty Museum’s deep holdings, the exhibition Mario Giacomelli: Figure|Ground features 91 photographs that showcase the raw expressiveness of the artist’s style, which echoed many of the concerns of postwar Neorealist film and Existentialist literature.

Opposite – Scanno, No. 57, 1957–59

Exhibition runs through to October 10th, 2021

J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles
CA 90049

www.jacksonfineart.com

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MILES ALDRIDGE: VIRGIN MARY. SUPERMARKETS. POPCORN.

Posted on 2021-07-12

The show draws on Aldridge’s highly composed and cinematically inspired tableaus, including his 2015 project (after Cattelan) in which the artist Maurizio Cattelan invited Aldridge to respond to his sculptures over the course of one night together in a Paris museum. Aldridge’s unique style is also applied to portraiture and his subjects include Marina Abramović, Gilbert and George, Sophie Turner, Viola Davis, Michael Fassbender, Donatella Versace and David Lynch.

Opposite – 3-D, 2010

Exhibition runs through to October 7th, 2021

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

www.fotografiska.com

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MUHAMMAD ALI IN MIAMI

Posted on 2021-07-05

Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frazier was billed as the “Fight of the Century” and, in preparation for the March 8, 1971 bout, Ali spent time in Miami Beach training at the famed 5th Street Gym.

“These photos captured a historic moment for Ali. He was just returning to boxing after his conviction for refusing to register for the draft in 1967 had been overturned,” HistoryMiami Museum Executive Director Jorge Zamanillo said. “These photos show him preparing to return to the biggest stage in sports at that time, and we hope everyone will visit the museum to view an incredible and rarely seen collection of images.”

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2021

Historymiami Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130

www.historymiami.org

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PIXY LIAO – YOUR GAZE BELONGS TO ME

Posted on 2021-07-05

Pixy Liao is exemplary of a new generation of photographic artists experimenting with the possibilities of portraiture in depicting modern partnership. Her works emerge from personal experiences and her own intimate spaces, challenging conventional socio-cultural ideas of gender constructions and questions of nationality in a globalized world.

Your Gaze Belongs to Me is part of an ongoing, long-term project called Experimental Relationship. The project began when Liao, a Shanghai native, met a Japanese musician in 2006 while studying at university in Tennessee. This first museum solo exhibition of Pixy Liao’s work is arranged thematically, and includes more than 50 works from two series, Experimental Relationship, and the outgrowth series For Your Eyes Only, as well as individual video and sculptural works that Liao is showing together for the first time.

Opposite – After Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, Experimental Relationship series, 2019

Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2021

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

www.fotografiska.com

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FROM MARGINS TO MAINSTAYS

Posted on 2021-07-05

This exhibition will feature masterworks from the photography collection that were made by artists whose careers and personal lives were sidelined, ignored, or impacted by their gender, race, sexuality, or nationality. From Margins to Mainstays will illustrate how the canon of photography has changed since the medium first began being shown in museums in the 1940s, with particular emphasis on rectifying the small percentage of women and artists of color historically acquired by and displayed in public collections. The exhibition will include works by Berenice Abbott, Lotte Jacobi, Carrie Mae Weems, Lee Miller, Cornelius Marion Battey, James Van Der Zee, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Opposite – James Van Der Zee, American, 1886–1983, Kate and Rachel Van Der Zee, Lenox, Massachusetts, 1909

Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2021

Museum Of Fine Arts St. Petersburg
255 Beach Dr NE
St. Petersburg
FL 33701

mfastpete.org

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