TARRAH KRAJNAK

Posted on 2020-11-02

Filter Photo is pleased to present El Jardín de Senderos Que Se Bifurcan, an exhibition by Tarrah Krajnak. Named after a Jorge Luis Borges story by the same title, the exhibition El Jardín de Senderos Que Se Bifurcan explores the process of tracing my origins amidst contradictory familial narratives. Indigenous to Peru and orphaned as an infant I was adopted into a working-class transracial family from the American coal country and raised as a twin to my African American brother. This early experience of racial difference established my ongoing preoccupation with orphanhood, ancestral exile, origins, and the way these constructs are written on the body and in the archive. In this series, I set out not to recover some stable authentic identity hidden by the circumstances of my birth and adoption, but rather to build a psychic history, to imagine lineages, to invent mothers, and to resurrect ancestors in an effort to understand my place within the larger political, social, and historical narratives of my birthplace, Lima, Peru circa 1979.

Exhibition runs through to November 21st, 2020

Filter Space
1821 W. Hubbard St. Suite 207
Chicago
IL 60603

www.filterphoto.org

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EXAMINING THE AMERICAN DREAM

Posted on 2020-11-02

The American Dream, the national ethos of the United States, was born from the Declaration of Independence’s ideal that “all men are created equal”. Not women, not black, brown, or indigenous people, just white men. The ethos embodies the set of ideals determined to be fundamental to humanity—democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality. It is also the idea that the pursuit of “life, liberty, and happiness” will be rewarded to those willing to work hard. With every president and change in government comes new definitions of what that means. This exhibition is a look at how the American Dream evolves under the influence of technology, war, religion, racism, discrimination, economic disparity, and eternal hope. Out of this, we aim to foster dialogue, question assumptions, illuminate prejudice, and make space for community connection within and beyond American borders.

Exhibiting artists: Intisar Abioto, Holly Andres, Julie Blackmon, Kris Graves, Jamil Hellu, Jon Henry, Thomas Kiefer, Mia K. McNeal, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Cinthya Santos-Briones, Hank Willis Thomas, Rodrigo Valenzuela, and Matika Wilbur

Opposite – Julie Blackmon, Trapped, 2017

Exhibition runs through to December 10th, 2020

Photographic Center Northwest
900 12th Avenue
Seattle
WA 98122

pcnw.org

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ASTRID REISCHWITZ – SPIN CLUB TAPESTRY

Posted on 2020-10-26

All About Photo presents Spin Club Tapestry by the German photographer Astrid Reischwitz.

This exhibition is on view for the entire month of November 2020 and includes nineteen photographs from the project Spin Club Tapestry which showcase archival pigment print with unique embroidery by Astrid Reischwitz.

Opposite – Filling The Blank

Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2020

All About Photo Showroom
Online
San Diego, CA

www.all-about-photo.com

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FRANCESCA WOODMAN – NEW YORK WORKS

Posted on 2020-10-26

In her short career Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) produced an extraordinary body of work acclaimed for its singularity of style and range of innovative techniques. From the beginning, her focus was on the relationship with her body as both the object of the gaze and the active subject behind the camera.

Following the gallery’s 2018 exhibition of works made in Italy in 1977–1978, the works in this exhibition centre on a rare series of colour photographs that Woodman staged in her New York apartment in 1979. In these images, and black-and- white photographs also made in New York during the same period, Woodman contorts and inserts her body into space and architecture, at times even ‘performing’ classical sculpture in ways likely influenced by her year abroad in Rome while a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. One of the key influences of Italian art on Woodman’s work was in her precise use of composition, which became more sophisticated during her time in Rome. She explored perspective and consciously used formal strategies learnt from her study of Florentine masters, particularly Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and classical sculpture. As she wrote from New York in 1980 to Edith Schloss, Rome-based friend, painter and critic: ‘It’s funny how while I was living in Italy the culture there didn’t affect me that much and now I have all this fascination with the architecture, etc.’

Opposite – Untitled, New York, 1979

Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2020

Victoria Miro Venice
Il Capricorno, San Marco 1994,
Calle Drio La Chiesa
30124 Venice, Italy

www.victoria-miro.com

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BILL CUNNINGHAM – NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Posted on 2020-10-26

Featuring over 80 unique vintage photographs spanning five decades, Bill Cunningham | New York, New York is not just a chronicle of fashion trends from the street to the elite, but a testimony of life in the great metropolis that poignantly bears little resemblance to the city of today, having been an epicenter of a global crisis. During this period of profound isolation and reflection, this exhibition serves as more than a historical document of the rich vitality of New York but as a beacon of hope; a reminder of a life that once was, and will surely return.

Opposite – Untitled, New York City, 1984

Exhibition runs through to November 21st, 2020

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

www.brucesilverstein.com

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