ANSEL ADAMS – SIGNATURE STYLE

Posted on 2020-04-20

This exhibition presents twenty-two photographs, illustrating three elements in his body of work: his signature style, the shift in style in 1941, and his commercial work. His signature style will be shown through later works and national parks pictures made either for the mural project or on his Guggenheim fellowship which exhibit characteristic elements. Pairs and groupings of works that contrast early and later works will track the shift in his style. And finally examples of his commercial photography, a little known but important component of his career, illustrate the development of his artistic language.

Opposite – El Capitan—Yosemite Valley, postcard, undated

Exhibition runs through to May 2nd, 2020

Center for Creative Photography
1030 N. Olive Road
Tucson
AZ 85721

ccp.arizona.edu

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CAITLYN SOLDAN – DESERTSCAPES

Posted on 2020-04-13

Desertscapes : Altered Views of New Mexico is a solo exhibition with Santa Fe photo-based artist Caitlyn Soldan which explores various approaches to iconic views in New Mexico landscapes. Included in the exhibit are variations of Pedernal Mesa, Shiprock, and the Taos Gorge. Just as Pedernal Mesa was a great inspiration to Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings and served as a major muse for her at Ghost Ranch where she had her studio, Caitlyn too is moved by the unique New Mexico desert land. Soldan creates landscape studies in various photographic processes that yield unique one-of-a-kind prints which each represent the different emotional qualities in nature. By virtue of repetition with the subject matter, the artist seeks to honor the subject which inspires and motivates her.

Opposite – Cerro Pedernal Study #13, 2019

Exhibition runs through to April 18th, 2020

Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87505

www.obscuragallery.net

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JOSEPH DESLER COSTA – DREAM DATE

Posted on 2020-04-13

Costa’s highly constructed photographs picture his anxieties and desires as he reconciles a longing for symbols from his youth with the more pervasive images that now occupy his field of view. The resulting works—part autobiographical, part fiction—are a materialization of memories and fantasies warped not only by the passage of time but also by a steady consumption of media imagery.

Costa’s interest in the visual language of desire is rooted in his early memories growing up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh in the late 1980s and 1990s. His first influences were shiny pop culture images from television, fashion magazines, and advertisements.

Opposite – Green Apples, 2019

Exhibition runs through to April 18th, 2020

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

clampart.com

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TOM CHAMBERS – 15 YEARS

Posted on 2020-04-13

Tom Chambers is a photographer best known for creating photomontages that move beyond documentation of the present and seek to merge reality and dreams. Chambers considers his photographs to be not so much about taking photos as making them. Each series begins with a sketch of a concept and storyline. He then photographs each element of the piece using a medium format camera, making sure the light intensity and direction are the same in each shot. By photographing separate elements and assembling them into montages enhanced with patina and warmth, Chambers creates scenes that evoke surreal fairytales.

Opposite – Hidden Aviary

Exhibition runs through to April 15th, 2020

Gilman Contemporary
661 Sun Valley Road
Ketchum
ID 83340

www.gilmancontemporary.com

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FABIO TORRO – CAMERA WORK

Posted on 2020-04-06

“Camera Work” is comprised of the artist’s highly detailed, black-and-white, oil painting “portraits” of classic, analogue cameras. The show’s centerpiece is a triptych on canvas depicting three views of a twin lens Rolleiflex camera. Then, four oil paintings on paper depict the same (but possibly different?) Mamiya RB67 camera bodies in profile. Lastly, Torre has painted twelve head-on views of a single Hasselblad medium format camera with background shades of bright to very dark ambient light.

Opposite – Mamiya A1, 2019

Exhibition runs through to April 25th, 2020

Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87505

www.obscuragallery.net

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ROE ETHRIDGE – OLD FRUIT

Posted on 2020-04-06

Since the turn of the century, Ethridge has exercised a significant influence over young artists in particular, yet opportunities to see groupings of his early work have been rare. Old Fruit, which focuses primarily on his output from the early 2000s, offers a valuable chance to revisit many highly regarded and widely reproduced images that embody new ways of understanding the medium of photography in the context of emergent technological and social currents.

Expanding on the visual and critical syntaxes of photographers from Paul Outerbridge to Andreas Gursky, Ethridge strategically crisscrosses the zones of artistic, commercial, and vernacular imagery, encouraging the staged and the spontaneous to occupy the same space. Using outtakes from his own commercial and editorial shoots alongside other images, he subverts the residual authority of the portrait, landscape, and still life genres to match his own consciously ambiguous ends.

Opposite – Refrigerator, 1999

Exhibition runs through to April 18th, 2020

Gagosian Gallery
976 Madison Avenue
New York
NY 10075

gagosian.com

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