Posts from the ‘Traveling Exhibitions’ Category
Description: Rinko Kawauchi has gained international recognition for her nuanced, lushly colored images that offer closely observed fragments of everyday life. In her latest work, she shifts her attention from the micro to the macro. The title, Ametsuchi, is comprised of two Japanese characters meaning “heaven and earth,” and is taken from the title of one of the oldest pangrams in Japanese—a chant in which each character of the Japanese syllabary is used. Translated loosely as “Song of the Universe,” it offers a list that includes the heavens, earth, stars, and mountains. In Ametsuchi, Kawauchi brings together images of distant…
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Description: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something features fifteen of Chuck Close’s delicately intimate daguerreotypes (including striking enlargements) of leading contemporary artists, paired with Bob Holman’s witty and beautifully typeset poems. As individual portraits, each daguerreotype offers an intimate and immensely revealing study of the subject, extending the hyperrealist tradition of portraiture for which Close is renowned. In keeping with the exhibition title, Chuck Close, as curator, has included examples of his other works taken from each daguerreotype in a variety of media, including tapestries and photogravures. The collected work becomes a transfixing group portrait of Close’s influential and…
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Description: In 1968 Josef Koudelka was thirty years old. He had committed himself to photography as a full-time career only recently, and had been chronicling the theater and the lives of Gypsies, but he had never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political freedom in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring. In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led invasion, Koudelka took to the streets to document this critical moment. It was a major turning point…
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Description: 101 Tragedies brings together a collection of photographs and narratives by the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides, who has captured tragedies and catastrophes on the streets of Mexico City for several decades. His work, cinematic at times and intimate at others, presents short narratives—single-frame movies, so to speak. Metinides remembers everything: the characters, the families, and the sadness, as much as the heroism of the emergency workers and the “audience” of onlookers relieved to be watching, not participating in the dramas he captures. His images are distinct from sensationalism; his photographs, while powerful, are often filled with their own humanity,…
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Description: Petrochemical America represents a unique collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff. It brings into focus the industrialized landscape of the Mississippi River Corridor that stretches from Baton Rouge to New Orleans—a place that first garnered attention as “Cancer Alley” because of unusually high reports of cancer and other diseases in the area. The Project Room exhibition reveals traces of their collaborative process and features Misrach’s haunting photographs of the region and Orff’s Ecological Atlas, a series of visual narratives, or “throughlines.” The dialogue between photograph and drawing begins to unpack complex economic and ecological forces…
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Description: In Life’s a Beach, one of Britain’s most beloved photographers takes us on a color-saturated journey through a place loved by all, the seaside, with its general absurdities and local quirks. Martin Parr has been photographing this subject for many decades, documenting all aspects of the tradition, including close-ups of sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge, and the eternal sandy picnic underway. His international career, in fact, could well be traced to the launch of The Last Resort, a 1986 book depicting the seaside resort of New Brighton, near Liverpool. What may be less known is that this obsession has…
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Current Venue List: Bronx Museum of Art 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY Friday, September 9, 2010–Sunday, January 2, 2011 Pensacola Museum of Art 407 South Jefferson Street Pensacola, FL Friday, January 28 – Sunday, March 27, 2011 Bakersfield Museum of Art 1930 R Street Bakersfield, CA Thursday, September 13 – Sunday, November 25, 2012 Louisville Visual Art Association 609 W Main Street, 2nd Floor Louisville, KY 40202 502.584.8166 Friday, March 15 – Sunday, May 12, 2013 Art Museum of South Texas 1902 N. Shoreline Blvd. Corpus Christi, TX Thursday, September 12 – Thursday, November 7, 2013 Description: Paul Strand was…
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Description: Intended Consequences, photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik, is an extraordinary series of environmental portraits made in Rwanda of women who were brutally raped during the genocide and the children they bore as a result. Through the exhibition’s striking images, accompanied by selections from the women’s testimonies, Torgovnik provides these mothers an opportunity to tell their stories. Amnesty International and Foundation Rwanda join Aperture Foundation with this exhibition to mark the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and to create a comprehensive dialogue about the legacy of genocide and sexual violence against women. Traveling to Rwanda repeatedly over three years, Torgovnik…
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Description: Gathering images from the far corners of the globe, The Suffering of Light is the most comprehensive exhibition ever shown in the United States charting the career of acclaimed American photographer Alex Webb. Recognized as a pioneer of American color photography, Webb has consistently created photographs characterized by intense color and light since the 1970s. His work, with its richly layered and complex composition, touches on multiple genres, including street photography, photojournalism, and fine art, but as Webb claims, “To me it all is photography. You have to go out and explore the world with a camera.” After tiring…
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