HELENE SCHMITZ – THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN

Posted on 2020-04-06

Earlier projects have focused on the aggressive and sometimes fragile relationship between nature and human beings, one that is spiraling out of control. Kudzu Project shows the ongoing destruction that began after a climbing vine (Pueraria lobata) was brought overseas from its native home in Japan. Once planted in the United States, the eponymous plant became an invasive species with dire consequences for industrial and ecological infrastructures in the American South. Thinking Like a Mountain sheds light on the relationship between the ownership and exploitation of natural resources in Sweden and Iceland.

Exhibition runs through to April 12th, 2020

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

www.fotografiska.com

  

30 YEARS OF WOMEN

Posted on 2020-03-30

30 Years of Women, curated by gallery founder Jane Jackson and current owner Anna Walker Skillman, draws from Jackson Fine Art’s thirty-year history of showing the most distinguished voices in 20th and 21st century photography. Jackson and Skillman have selected works illustrative of the gallery’s evolving vision and the strong relationships that have defined Jackson Fine Art through the years.

Opposite – Trine Søndergaard, Untitled, Lace #17, 2017

Exhibition runs through to April 11th, 2020

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com

  

ELGER ESSER – INHERENT TIME

Posted on 2020-03-30

Esser is most widely recognized for his distinct approach to the genre of landscape photography. in his production of eternal images imbued with the sensitive vision of a Romantic. Rendered both in large-format and more intimately-scaled compositions, his serene, verdant photographs depict moments rooted historically, yet also in the present. Esser’s work builds upon a rich tradition of 19th century photography characterized by the grand Realist landscapes of French masters Gustave Le Gray and Édouard Baldus, as well as the great chronicler of the American west, Carleton Watkins. Whereas the approach of these forbearers realized still photographs entwined to their respective eras, Esser’s timeless images are detached from such specificity, evoking the everlasting.

Opposite – Mornac sur Seudre, 2014

Exhibition runs through to April 11th, 2020

Bruce Silverstein
529 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011

www.brucesilverstein.com

  

PROOF – PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ERA OF THE CONTACT SHEET

Posted on 2020-03-30

For much of the 20th century, contact sheets (also called proof sheets) were vital to the practice of photography. The rising popularity of roll film encouraged more and more exposures; the best frame would be chosen later. The photographer first saw positive images on the contact sheet, which was marked up for printing and served as a lasting reference. Digital technology has put an end to that era: the photographer now sees the image instantly, and systems of storage, retrieval, and editing have become increasingly sophisticated.

As photography proliferated in galleries and museums in the 1970s, photographers occasionally printed all the images from one roll of film together and presented the result as a finished work of art. The collection opens a fascinating window on the aims and methods of a broad range of photographers at work during the second half of the 20th century. PROOF features approximately 180 works from the collection, notably by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Harry Benson, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Philippe Halsman, Irving Penn, and Albert Watson, as well as by Schwartz’s friends Arnold Newman, Larry Fink, and Emmet Gowin.

Exhibition runs through to April 11th, 2020

The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106

www.clevelandart.org

  

MICHAEL WOLF – LIFE IN CITIES

Posted on 2020-03-23

For over four decades Wolf examined the layered urban landscape, addressing juxtapositions of public and private space, and anonymity and individuality in relation to history and modern development. Michael Wolf’s work on life in cities was always driven by a profound concern for the people living in these environments and for the consequences of massive urbanization on contemporary civilization. This commitment and engagement remained central throughout his career. The Robert Koch Gallery was the first gallery to represent Michael Wolf, and did so exclusively for many years, presenting Wolf’s first exhibition of his breakthrough project Architecture of Density in 2005 and later the first gallery exhibition of Transparent City in 2008. Our gallery is honored to have mounted numerous ground-breaking exhibitions of Michael Wolf’s work prior to his untimely passing in 2019.

Opposite – Transparent City #85, 2007

Exhibition runs through to April 11th, 2020

Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street 5th Floor
San Francisco
CA 94108

www.kochgallery.com

  

FRANCESCA WOODMAN – PORTRAIT OF A REPUTATION

Posted on 2020-03-23

Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation details how the artist came into her creative voice and her singular approach to photography at a notably young age. This exhibition demonstrates Woodman’s virtuosity in formation, the creative impulses that yielded a distinctive voice, and also a more nuanced understanding of the context in which she worked and which is featured so prominently in her photographs from this time. Ranging from portraits in her studio/apartment in college to self-portraits in the bucolic Colorado landscape in which she was raised, these works capture Woodman’s hallmark approach to art-making: enigmatic, rigorous, and poignant, all at once. The exhibition will also include select photographs of Woodman made by George Lange during this period. Taken together, Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation will offer a nuanced and in-depth study of this formative period in the development of this most adept artist.

Opposite – Untitled photograph, circa 1975-1978

Exhibition runs through to May 25th, 2020

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver)
1485 Delgany Street
Denver
CO 80202

mcadenver.org