On view until February 18, 2018, the work uses sculptural reliefs to enhance large - scale
photographs of the artist standing in front of oil paintings from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Otto Dix's The Businessman Max Roesberg, Dresden (1922) and Balthus's Girl at a Window (1957).
Not exact matches
Bible Road is a very different book from Church Signs Across America, in large part because the Paulsons
stood in front
of a lot
of signs and took snapshots
of them, whereas Fentress is a gifted
artist whose
photographs embrace the varying moods and textures
of the many distinctly American scenes he portrays.
«Vertical Elevated Oblique» included C -
stands used as workhorses for lighting, fabric, showcards and other apparatus in the film industry (Syms grew up in Los Angeles around this business and remains based in the city) strung with found
photographs in which several hands were pictured forming the kind
of gestures seen in her video, while items
of the
artist's clothing printed with phrases were also slung over these tubular frames, suggesting an absent body.
1996 Mixed media installation (hand - painted signs, mounted color
photographs,
standing metal sign and books from the collection
of the
artist) Dimensions variable ARG # RUA1996 - 001
Some
of China's most established contemporary
artists and several younger names appear in this group exhibition (the letters in the title
stand for «video» and «
photograph»).
Discussing her large - format
photograph Presently, Here
Standing, Ntombi (2016)-- an arresting image of Brand's friend standing in a bathroom with breasts bared, staring directly into the camera — the artist explained: «That work was about the experience of being in Cape Town and feeling in
Standing, Ntombi (2016)-- an arresting image
of Brand's friend
standing in a bathroom with breasts bared, staring directly into the camera — the artist explained: «That work was about the experience of being in Cape Town and feeling in
standing in a bathroom with breasts bared, staring directly into the camera — the
artist explained: «That work was about the experience
of being in Cape Town and feeling invisible.
This large - scale retrospective — the
artist's second posthumous exhibition in India —
of 135 drawings, paintings, and
photographs by Karachi - born Nasreen Mohamedi (1937 — 1990)
stands out among a trio
of shows the museum has ambitiously organized to explore links among artwork by women
of South Asian descent over the last century.
James Casebere first came to notice as a member
of the famed «Pictures Generation,»
standing out from fellow
artists like Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince for his uncanny take on appropriation: instead
of lifting images from popular culture, Casebere created tabletop models
of architectural settings out
of modest materials and
photographed them in eerily flat, theatrical light.
Desire as a Form
of Energy (2015) is a new floor -
standing work that expands Pirecki's Image Persistence series, using an image taken from digital documentation
of an artwork the
artist no longer owns,
photographed directly from her computer screen with all the attendant pixelation.
A recreation
of a bust that Mayo made
of Giacometti, long destroyed,
stands nearby, its features somewhat less delicate than his aquiline profile in the only known
photograph of the work, in which it sits between the two young
artists.
The foam block in Another Interlude may make you think
of fellow German
artist Joseph Beuys; the sole
photograph in the exhibition will surely make you think
of Hans Bellmer and Man Ray — it's a restaged version
of the latter's 1920 work The Coat -
Stand (Porte manteau), the original
of which is at the National Gallery
of Modern Art in Rome, and appears briefly in Another Interlude.
Namuth's
photographs and films
of Pollock still
stand among the most important documents showing an
artist in his studio and continue to influence
artists as diverse as Richard Serra (whose molten - lead sculptures from the late»60s transpose the drip paintings into three dimensions) and Vik Muniz (who appropriated one
of the images for a painting in chocolate).
Mame Diarra Niang's «Metropolis Central» series
of photographs flattens Johannesburg's urban landscape into arrangements
of colored planes, refashioning it into an imaginary, mutable territory that
stands in for the
artist's peripatetic upbringing.
There's a
photograph of all the
artists of the New York School
standing next to Barge, including
artists of the next generation.
Last night at Baxter St at the Camera Club
of New York's opening
of «Do Not Destroy,» California
artist Sadie Barnette's first solo exhibition in New York City, Rodney Barnette
stood in between two large framed
photographs of himself from nearly 50 years ago: one, dressed in the uniform
of the U.S. Army before he was sent to fight in Vietnam, and after, outfitted in the black turtleneck, black leather jacket, solidarity - fist button, and black beret that were the de-facto uniform
of the Black Panther Party,
of whom he was once an organizer.
«In Iraq, there are no institutions, there are no curators, there is hardly a gallery scene, he said,
standing in rooms showing modernist
photographs from the mid-1960s by an Iraqi
artist no in his 90s, and images
of tortured prisoners taken by a 30 - year - old Iraqi refugee now living in Turkey.
But those questions seem remote when you're
standing in front
of Dallas
artist Jesse Morgan Barnett's
photographs of scrapes left by cars on roadside guardrails that somehow evoke the stillness and grandeur
of landscape and the speed and grandeur
of mid-20th century abstract expressionism.
Juxtaposed with the ongoing video work, the
artist has created an installation
of double - sided
photographs and «cookies»; these forms are mounted on century
stands, devices often employed in film production.
This exhibition will include four works: a Giacometti painted bronze sculpture,
Standing Woman, 1948; a large Mark di Suvero sculpture in metal and wood, entitled The A Train, 1966; a large - scale color
photograph by Jeff Wall, A ventriloquist at a birthday party in October 1947, 1990; and a suite
of seven carved wood sculptures by the American folk
artist Edgar Tolson, entitled The Fall
of Man.
To take just one example, consider Michael Landy's Semi-Detached — John and Ethel Landy (2004), a
photograph of the
artist's parents
standing in front
of a full - scale model
of their modest, pebbledash - fronted suburban house, which he had installed inside Tate Britain.
Mira Dancy's gorgeous, joyful mural
of a reclining female nude, for instance, takes off across from the ecstasy
of feminist
artist Mary Beth Edelson's Woman Rising (1973), a black - and - white
photograph in which a woman
stands in an open desert, her arms stretched out toward the sky in a gesture
of empowerment and freedom that is reinforced by a V - shaped line
of contrails in the sky.