Southern Accent: Seeking the American South
This unprecedented exhibition addresses and complicates the many realities, fantasies and myths that have long captured the public's imagination about the American South. Presenting a wide range of perspectives, from both within and outside of the region, the exhibition creates a composite portrait of southern identity through the work of 60 artists.
Affordable New York traces over a century of affordable housing activism, documenting the ways in which reformers, policy makers, and activists have fought to transform their city. A focus on current and future housing initiatives demonstrates how New Yorkers continue to promote subsidized housing as a way to achieve diversity, neighborhood stability, and social justice.
May 3 - September 13, 2015
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund. This exhibition explores the work of twenty-six contemporary artists—such as Sophie Calle (b. 1953), Adam Fuss (b. 1961 ), Vera Lutter (b. 1960), Sally Mann (b. 1951), Christian Marclay (b. 1955), and Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)—who investigate the complex and resonant relationship of photography to time, memory, and history.Read more.
Andrew Moore has been awarded a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for his photographic series, Dirt Meridian, recently on view at the gallery. The project centers around the 100th meridian west, the longitudinal line which runs through North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and is historically regarded as the geographic beginning of the American West.
A solo exhibition of Andrew Moore's work in Russia and Detroit, entitled East/West, is on display at the List Gallery, Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA through February 26, 2014.
Work by David Hilliard and Rachel Perry is included in Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas, on view through April 14, 2013. The exhibition presents work of contemporary artists who use the grocery store and consumption as their subject and will travel the United States following its Ulrich debut.
Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore is on view currently at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. through February 18, 2013. The exhibition was organized by the Akron Art Museum and has previously traveled to the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY.
Mark Steinmetz will participate in the Photographer's Lecture Series at the International Center for Photography on March 27, 2013 from 7-9pm. Tickers for the lecture are limited and are available through ICP.
On Tuesday, October 9, Andrew Moore will lecture at SVA Theater with poet Philip Levine, the 2011-2012 Poet Laureate of the United States. A Detroit native, Levine wrote the introduction to Moore's book, Detroit Disassembled.
On Wednesday, October 10, 6 – 8 p.m., Yancey Richardson Gallery hosts a book signing of Moore's his new lavishly-scaled monograph, Cuba.
Moore's traveling museum show, Detroit Disassembled, is on view at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., through February 18, 2013.
Work by Andrew Moore is featured in the photographic survey An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, on display at the St. Louis Art Museum through May 13, 2012. Moore's work is also featured in Structuring Nature, on display at the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery in the Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas from May 3 – June 30, 2012. Additionally, the artist's new book, Cuba: Photographs by Andrew Moore (1998-2012), will be released in August.
Works by David Hilliard will feature in the upcoming exhibition Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Teutloff Collection in Dresden, Germany, from September 21, 2012 – April 7, 2013. Hilliard's work was recently in Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography at the Aperture Foundation Gallery. The exhibition was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog published by MOCA and produced by Aperture Foundation.
Mark Steinmetz has released three new books in 2012, including Summertime, published by Nazraeli, idyll (with Raymond Meeks) and pastoral, both limited edition books published by Silas Finch. In 2011, TBW Books published Philip and Micheline, a book about the artist's parents. Additionally, Steinmetz's book The Ancient Tigers of My Neighborhood (Nazraeli) was nominated by Robert Adams as a best book of 2010 at the Kassel Photobook Festival.
Works by Andrew Moore and Hellen van Meene are featured in the upcoming exhibition, An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, on display at the St. Louis Art Museum from February 19 – May 13. The museum's photographic survey includes Moore, van Meene, Edward Burtynsky, Gregory Crewdson, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Taryn Simon, Thomas Struth, and Larry Sultan, among many others.
Andrew Moore's solo exhibition - Detroit Disassembled - is on display at the Queens Museum of Art through January 15, 2012. The exhibition features over thirty large-scale photos examining the current state of the Motor City, with a selection of photos from previous bodies of work hanging the museum's mezzanine. Additionally, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently acquired three works, one each from Moore's major series': Detroit, Cuba, and Russia.
Andrew Moore's solo show - Detroit Disassembled - travels to the Queens Museum of Art this fall. The show opens August 28 and runs through January 15, 2012. Additionally, the Colby Museum of Art is presenting their extensive holdings of Moore's Detroit series in an exhibition scheduled to coincide with their show American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, which opened July 9.
Gallery artists Mitch Epstein, David Hilliard, Lisa Kereszi, Andrew Moore, Alex Prager, and Victoria Sambunaris are all included in People Power Places: Reframing the American Landscape, a group exhibition at Davidson College, North Carolina, on view through March 6, 2011.
Gallery artists Mitch Epstein, David Hilliard, Kenneth Josephson, Laura Letinsky and Hellen van Meene are all included in Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, a group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, on display through June 19, 2011. The exhibition also features works by Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Vik Muniz, and Richard Misrach, among others.
Andrew Moore's photograph Model-T Headquarters was selected as the cover image for the January issue of Art in America. The photograph, from Moore's Detroit series, accompanies the issue's cover story, "End Times Photography" by Max Kozloff.
In Fall 2011, Moore's solo museum show, Detroit Disassembled, will travel from the Akron Art Museum to the Queens Museum of Art.
Andrew Moore's photographs of the Motor City are sublime—beautiful, operatic in scale and drama, tragic yet offering a glimmer of hope. They are the subject of Detroit Disassembled, an exhibition organized by the Akron Art Museum making its debut there before touring nationally. Detroit, once the epitome of our nation's industrial wealth and might, has been in decline for almost a half-century. The city is now one-third empty land—more abandoned property than any American city except post-Katrina New Orleans.
David Hilliard was selected as the Dartmouth College Artist-in-Residence for Winter/Spring 2010. Begun in 1932, the Artist-in-Residence Program hosts three artists of distinction per year, chosen by a Studio Art faculty committee. An exhibition of Hilliard's work is on display in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery through May 2, 2010.
Completing his trilogy, South, which includes previous books South Central and South East, Mark Steinmetz releases Greater Atlanta by Nazraeli Press. Widely praised, Greater Atlanta was nominated as one of the best books of 2009 by Photo-Eye book critics, right after Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition.
Gallery artist Mario Cravo Neto, critically considered among the most influential Brazilian artists of his time, died August 10, 2009 in Salvador, Bahia, after an extended illness. Cravo Neto exhibited internationally in leading museums and galleries, and festivals, among them the Palazzo Fortuny, Venice in 1988, Daros-Latin America Collection in 2003 and Rencontres d'Arles in 2005. He was the subject of exhibitions at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo in 1995; Photo España, Madrid,1998 and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas in 2003.
Mario Cravo Neto is a part of the group exhibition Négritude at Exit Art in New York City. The show explores the visionary 20th century political and artistic movement of the same name. The exhibition runs through July 25, 2009.
Mark Steinmetz's new book Greater Atlanta, his third with Nazraeli Press, will be released in Fall 2009. The Yale Art Gallery recently acquired a group of Steinmetz's works from the edition for their collection.