photography in all its forms

New York, New York

Michael Wolf: The Transparent City and
Barbara Crane: Private Views
Exhibition

Opening reception:
Thursday, November 12, 2009
6:00–8:00 pm

FREE

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Exhibitions on view:
Saturday, November 7, 2009–Thursday, January 21, 2010

Please join us at Aperture Gallery for a reception celebrating the opening of two simultaneous exhibitions exploring the city of Chicago from different vantage points and periods in history, Michael Wolf: The Transparent City and Barbara Crane: Private Views. While Michael Wolf's large-scale color photographs of downtown Chicago's buildings and their inhabitants examine public versus private space in the context of 21st-century urban life, Barbara Crane's intimate Polaroids from the 1980s hone in on private human gestures performed in public at Chicago's summer festivals. Both bodies of work reveal private moments that were intended to go unnoticed, each eliciting very different visceral responses from the viewer while evoking the voyeurism that permeates our culture today.

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Michael Wolf: The Transparent City, curated by Natasha Egan, is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Equities Realty Artist-in-Residence Program. The monograph The Transparent City, co-published by MoCP, Chicago, was supported by U.S. Equities Realty, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, Kay and Matthew Bucksbaum, and Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

Barbara Crane: Private Views is made possible by Fujifilm, Lightside Photographic Services, and LTI Photographic Services. The monograph Private Views was published in association with Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, and was made possible by the generous support of the Land Fund of the Polaroid Foundation, Polaroid Corporation.