RUVEN AFANADOR – GREAT PERFORMERS

Posted on 2022-04-25

This exhibition features portraits of this year’s most heralded performers, such as: Ruth Negga, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Kristen Stewart, Honor Swinton Byrne, Katia Pascariu, and Hidetoshi Nishijima. The photographs on display are set against a distinctive installation inspired by the German Expressionist-style angular backdrops featured in this collection of images.

The Great Performers issue has been a New York Times Magazine tradition since 2004. The photographs from this series are emblematic of Ruven’s timeless style and quiet drama. Each portrait he made encapsulates in a single image the intimacy between performer and audience. All of Ruven’s subjects are captured in an almost “in between moment”, and through Ruven’s pure and honest direction, they echo the roles that they represented in their films.

Opposite – Gaby Hoffmann, Nov. 17, 2021

Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2022

Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles
CA 90036

www.faheykleingallery.com

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CURTICE TAYLOR – VICTORIAN MEN

Posted on 2022-04-25

Curtice Taylor imagines a young English gentleman moving to New York City in the late 19th century. He is the third son of a well-to-do, perhaps aristocratic family. Not in line for major inheritance or title, the imaginary man came to America where the prosecution for his private proclivities were less severe. Well-educated like other men of his class, he was also intrigued by the scientific breakthroughs of the day from Darwinism to archeology. Photography, the very new, scientific process for capturing reality, particularly fascinated him. Upon arriving in the city, he joined one of the many flourishing camera clubs and soon found a studio with north-facing light overlooking Union Square.

Opposite – Joseph 2

Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2022

ClampArt
247 West 29th Street, Ground Floor
New York
NY 10001

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ACTUAL SIZE! PHOTOGRAPHY AT LIFE SCALE

Posted on 2022-04-25

Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale explores what happens when a photograph is the very same size as its subject matter-when a photograph of a bus is the size of a bus, when a photograph of Muhammad Ali’s fist is its actual size, when a postcard of hail stones records their sizes for posterity. Image makers of every kind, from fine artists to advertisers, have explored the strange magic that happens when the photograph becomes an uncanny double for the world it depicts. Works by Ace Lehner, Laura Letinsky, Kija Lucas, Tanya Marcuse, Aspen Mays, Jeff Wall and others share the walls with anonymous posters, magazine spreads, and book covers.

Opposite – Schindly Photo, HAIL STORM, Sunbury PA., June 18, 1910, 1910

Exhibition runs through to May 2nd, 2022

ICP Museum
79 Essex Street
New York
NY 10002

www.icp.org

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ABOVE/BELOW

Posted on 2022-04-18

Everything is relative, and the environments in which we live are no exception. The most common way we view landscapes– as scenic vistas receding toward a horizon line– is only one way to look. If you shift your point of view the monumental shrinks, the miniscule becomes colossal, and unseen worlds that were always there come to light. Featuring works of art from the permanent collection, this exhibition offers new perspectives on our world by carrying viewers high up over and below the earth’s surface. From creating bird’s-eye views to up close encounters with underwater creatures, the artists in “Above/Below” explore the micro and macro details and workings of these mysterious and elusive realms of what hovers overhead and all that is beneath our feet. Although this exhibition features opposite extremes of our world, it explores the surprising and beautiful ways that we find ourselves inextricably linked between what is above and below.

Opposite – Neal Rantoul, Salt Evaporation Ponds, 2018

Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2022

Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840

newportartmuseum.org

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JULIE BLACKMON

Posted on 2022-04-11

Julie Blackmon Biography Contemporary American photographer Julie Blackmon draws inspiration from the raucous tavern scenes of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters, creating photographs based around the people and places in her small community.
Blackmon has compared her surroundings to a giant Hollywood prop closet, where a Starbucks employee out on a smoke break may appear in her next photograph, or the beauty shop she passes every day becomes the setting for a new piece.

Opposite – Costco, 2021

Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2022

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com

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VEE SPEERS – PHOENIX

Posted on 2022-04-04

Vee Speers’ series Phoenix is a powerful and evocative story about women. Never afraid to push boundaries, Speers takes us on an emotional journey with portraits and landscapes that are at once nostalgic and contemporary, hues faded, marking the passage of time. Like some kind of illusion that seems suspended in the memories of a dramatic event, hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes. At once powerful and vulnerable, Speers’ portraits are timeless symbols of transformation between life and loss and the renaissance of a new identity. The women of Phoenix are styled against the backdrop of an imperfect world, empowered with strength and emotion.

Opposite – Untitled #12, Phoenix, 2020

Exhibition runs through to April 20th, 2022

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com

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