MERYL MEISLER – NEW YORK PARADISE LOST

Posted on 2021-06-07

Meryl Meisler’s series “New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco” is an intimate journey through the pandemonium and ecstasy of New York City from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Meisler documents a tumultuous time in the city’s history marred by epidemics of crime, addiction, and AIDS, intensified by a paralyzing blackout and political and fiscal crises. Frequenting Manhattan’s legendary discos that arose from the disorder, she captured hedonistic havens patronized by celebrities and revelers of the night. In contrast, daylight revealed the beauty of those who loved and thrived in burnt-out Bushwick, where Meisler worked as a public school art teacher and continuously documented her surroundings.

Opposite – Family Picnic, Palmetto Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, September 1982

Exhibition runs through to July 9th, 2021

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

clampart.com

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TRANSFORMATION – A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT

Posted on 2021-06-07

The photographer is an artist who applies a lens to the world and the contemporary social order. TRANSFORMATION is a gathering of powerful and intriguing images that open stories of our times and portray a world undergoing transformation.

The exhibition will also explore the transformation of the photographic process. Photography as an artistic medium has been the beneficiary of changing technologies and new materials in the last quarter century. The artist now has dramatic latitude in terms of scale and visual media. Photography is no longer just a pretty picture or a document. It can be many things at once, integrating many materials and media.

Opposite – Pieter Hugo, Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogre-Remo, Nigeria, 2007

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2021

Blowing Rock Art and History Museum
159 Ginny Stevens Lane
Blowing Rock
NC 28605

www.blowingrockmuseum.org

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AN-MY LE – DO-MI-NO

Posted on 2021-06-07

The title of the exhibition, đô-mi-nô, alludes to the Cold War-era geopolitical concept of “domino theory.” Đô-mi-nô is the translation from French to a Vietnamese that is the modern national version that was romanized by European Jesuit priests in the 1600s.

For over twenty-five years, the Vietnamese American photographer An-My Lê has been steadily redefining the tradition of documentary photography. Working in distinct series which often span years, her work has shown her to be one of the most reliable witnesses to the complexities of American life. Her photographs, taken with a large-format film camera, often blur the boundaries between the actual and its representation, embracing performance as a means to explore conflict and war, the military-industrial complex, and national identity through memory and place. Her clear-eyed perception and distanced perspective call into question the status of photographic ‘objectivity,’ and coax the complexities of various sociopolitical settings and of human behavior.

Opposite – Security and Stabilization Operations, Iraqi Police, from 29 Palms, 2003-2004

Exhibition runs through to August 20th, 2021

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York
NY 10019

www.mariangoodman.com

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MONA KUHN – WORKS

Posted on 2021-05-31

Works, is a stunning career retrospective of one of the most respected and widely exhibited contemporary art photographers at work in the world today. The exhibition coincides with the launch of Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, “Works” (Thames & Hudson), an essential volume for anyone with an interest in the human form in contemporary art, which will be released in the US in April. The reader is provided with invaluable insights into Kuhn’s creative process and the ways in which she works with her subjects and settings and achieves the visual signature of her imagery.

Opposite – Succulents #09

Exhibition runs through to July 4th, 2021

Galerie XII
2525 Michigan Avenue
Los Angeles
CA 90404

www.galeriexii.com

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PEGGY LEVISON NOLAN – BLUEPRINT FOR A GOOD LIFE

Posted on 2021-05-31

Nolan found photography later in life, but she has been inseparable from her cameras ever since. She recalls, “When my youngest was about three, my dad gave me an old Nikon [camera] and said, ‘Make pictures of the grandchildren.’ And I got hooked. I got so hooked I can’t even describe it to you. One roll of film got me.” While Nolan’s more recent work encompasses color photography, for this earlier body of work from the 1980s and 1990s, she worked exclusively with black and white film.

Inspired by the domestic space, Nolan photographed her seven children and aspects of their life as a large, boisterous family. Nolan recounts that over time, her children eventually forgot she was documenting their every move, nap, and relationship. Nolan, steeped in the history of photography, draws on street photography with her candid and organic approach.

Opposite – Untitled (Boys Watching Stella), c. 1992

Exhibition runs through to August 22nd, 2021

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
10975 S.W. 17th Street
Miami
FL 33199

frost.fiu.edu

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TOM UTTECH – ORIGIN

Posted on 2021-05-31

Birds all fly in the same direction while bears and bobcats gaze at us from their home in the woods. Tom Uttech is known for combining real and imagined elements inspired by nature in his captivating artwork. Tom Uttech: Origin will feature Kisibakwad, the beloved painting from the Figge collection, alongside a selection of large-scale photographs by the artist from the collection of the Museum of Wisconsin Art. The exhibition explores the origin of Uttech’s work —his relationship with the natural world and specifically with the North Woods, a place he has been fascinated with for decades and describes as “a land of glacial lakes, boreal plants and animals…”

Opposite – Pagwaneiamagad, 1977, Highway 11, Southeast of Quetico Provincial Park

Exhibition runs through to August 15th, 2021

Figge Art Museum
225 West Second Street
Davenport
IA 52801

figgeartmuseum.org

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