This booklet published to coincide with Chantal Joffe's fourth exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery, contains colour reproductions of selected paintings alongside various
polaroid photographs of the artist's studio.
Not exact matches
The show displays a selection
of pieces displayed salon style as both a reference to early modernist salons but also to the clutter and natural chaos
of her own workspace.The show includes
photographs, collages, drawings, and large - scale
Polaroids, displaying for us a more personal, introspective viewpoint that we haven't seen yet from the
artist.
Acting as curator, Santiago Muñoz has selected works from the permanent collection that include Hector Mendez - Caratini's
photographs of Taino petroglyphs, Ana Mendieta's
polaroids of her performance Body Tracks, a selection
of destroyed film works by El Museo's founder Raphael Montañez Ortiz, and works by Nuyorican
artists including Marcos Dimas.
Chuck Close
Photographs, on view from March 20 through October 2, 2016 features 86 images from 1964 to the present and illustrates the full range
of the
artist's exploration
of photography — from early black and white maquettes, to monumental composite
Polaroids, to intimately scaled daguerreotypes and recent Polaroid nudes.
His exhibition debut in 1975 was a series
of Polaroids of his Venice loft, followed by Connecticut landscapes in 1977; the
artist famously spent three years
photographing architect Philip Johnson's Glass house in New Canaan, Conn., beginning in 2006.
Bohemian romance is promoted by Dash Snow's enlarged blurry
Polaroids of his young friends behaving wildly, while Michael Vasquez's Impressionistic paintings based on
photographs of people and scenes from his own gangster past invoke the myth
of the outlaw
artist.
Alongside the
Polaroids, is on presentation a selection
of the
artist's major
photographs illustrating her performances.
'' [A] stunningly beautiful volume... An affectionate biographical glimpse into Martin's life... Tucked alongside reproductions
of paintings are previously unpublished lecture scripts, samples
of Martin's letters to Glimcher, and other notes... These actual - size replicas -LSB-...] are written neatly in the
artist's own script, and offer intimate glimpses into her thought process... The
photographs of Martin in her rustic surroundings are marvelous and strange, and the lurid colours unique to old
Polaroids provide a bracing contrast the restraint found in her paintings... Martin's works, with their delicate grids, can become muted or muffled on the page, but in this book they sing out pure and strong.