Lynn Saville: Dark City, Urban America at Night Lynn Saville's Dark City photographs illustrate her exploration of urban America between dusk and dawn. In this series, she focuses on evocative spaces that are generally devoid of people. Vacant buildings, shuttered storefronts, and empty streets are the ostensible subjects of her pictures, but the natural cycle of decay and rebirth in urban ecology is at the heart of each of her landscapes of downtowns after dark from New York to Los Angeles. |
Into the Night: Modern and Contemporary Art and the Nocturne Tradition
Into the Night: Modern and Contemporary Art and the Nocturne Tradition examines the long tradition of the nocturne in art and how that tradition has expanded to encompass various ways that contemporary artists consider the enigmatic notion of the night. This exhibition is comprised of paintings, photographs, and works on paper that investigate the psychological concepts of darkness, the dreamscape and its connection to the night, and the inter-connectedness of the environment with cultural and artistic discourse.
No Mountains in the Way: Photographs from the Kansas Documentary Survey, 1974
In 1974, with a grant of $5,000 from the NEA, No Mountains in the Way was organized by Jim Enyeart, then curator of photography at the University of Kansas Museum of Art. He and Kansas natives Terry Evans and Larry Schwarm—all artists who have attained considerable achievement in the intervening decades—travelled the state, photographing whatever struck them as representative. Each worked on an assigned theme. Enyeart focused on buildings, Evans on people, and Schwarm on the landscape. Their collective visions combined to poetically reflect place, culture, and custom in Kansas. The exhibition and catalogue were presented in 1975.
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland 1861 - 2008 "…the first major exhibition to use visual art as a lens to explore the lure that Coney Island exerted on American culture over a period of 150 years. An extraordinary array of artists viewed Coney Island as a microcosm of the American experience, from its beginnings as a watering hole for the wealthy, through its transformation into an entertainment mecca for the masses, to the closing of Astroland Amusement Park following decades of urban decline." |
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.
Artists both native to Nebraska and those traveling through have been struck by the vast land and sky of the prairies. This exhibition focuses on works that utilize large-scale formats to capture that seemingly limitless sensation as well as the intricacies that lie therein.
NO MOUNTAINS IN THE WAY, 40 YEARS LATE, KANSAS DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY, WICHITA ART MUSEUM, KANSAS
September 12, 2015 - January 3, 2016
James Enyeart, Terry Evans, and Larry Schwarm--artists who have attained considerable achievement in the intervening decades--each examined particular aspects of the Kansas rural environment. Their collective visions combined to poetically reflect place, culture, and custom in Kansas.
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.
Work by Lisa Kereszi is included in the show Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 on view now at the Wadsworth Museum of Art in Hartford Connecticut through May 31st, 2015. This multimedia show chronicles the rise and fall of the "World's Greatest Playground" located on the shores of Brooklyn, New York. Kereszi's color photographs from the early 2000s document the final stages of the park's decay through her focused attention to often overlooked details. Read more.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art has commissioned over 40 large-scale photographs by Terry Evans for their exhibition, Meet Me at the Trinity, on view August 30 - January 25, 2015. The solo exhibition addresses the culture of the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas, focusing especially on the people drawn to its banks.
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.
Lisa Kereszi's exhibition, Joe's Junk Yard & Other American Dreams, curated by Rebecca Soderhold, is on display through October 11 at Drew University's Korn Gallery.
Work by Lynn Saville is featured in PHOTO ID, a group exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, on display through July 7. The exhibition of photographs explores the theme of identity through the lens of self, society, and gender.
Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans is on view currently at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO. The exhibition is the first career retrospective of Evans' work and includes over 100 color and black-and-white photographs from 1971 to the present. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated, 250 page exhibition catalogue.
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.
The Space in Between, an exhibition featuring the work of Lynn Saville, was recently on display at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, and is now on view at the Atlantic Wharf's Waterfront Square Gallery in Boston through March 22, 2013.
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.
Lisa Kereszi's solo exhibition, The Party's Over, will open at Yancey Richardson Gallery on May 24, 2012. Her work is currently on display in Beyond Words: Photography in the New Yorker, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China from April 15 – June 10, 2012. Additionally, Kereszi's 4th book, Joe's Junk Yard, will be published by Damiani this Fall, and distributed by DAP. A solo exhibit, Joe's Junk Yard, will be on display at Metronom in Modena, Italy from September 14-16 as part of the Festival Filosofia.
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.
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.
An exhibition of works from Terry Evans' series Matfield Green Stories is on display at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, through November 27, 2011.
The tiny town of Matfield Green, located in the Flint Hills of Kansas, is the subject of Evans' series of aerial landscapes and intimate portraits of the town's 50 residents.
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.
Allure, Lisa Kereszi's solo show at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery opens September 30th. The artist will be present the evening of the opening for a gallery talk.
Kereszi is also participating in Group Shows at Biblioteca Civica d'Arte Luigi Poletti during September, at Showtime Show House (Cassa, Gramercy Park, NYC) through October 22nd, at Gallery Out of Place (4-14-2 3F Minamiazabu Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan) through October, and at Pool Gallery in Berlin from Nov. 19- Jan. 15, 2011.
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.
Terry Evans invited for a major retrospective show in 2012 by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.
Lisa Kereszi's monograph Fun and Games will be released in September 2009 by Nazraeli Press. Titled after the name of a Jersey Shore arcade and the Ancient Roman wrestling phrase, "It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye," the book documents the artist's self-described obsession with what is hidden behind the facades of strip clubs, haunted houses and nightclubs and other places of fantasy and entertainment.
Lynn Saville's first monograph Night|Shift: Photographs by Lynn Saville, published by The Monacelli Press, was released in May 2009.
Victoria Sambunaris and Christian Patterson have been nominated for the 2009 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographer. Lisa Kereszi was the 2005 recipient.
The work of Terry Evans is currently featured in Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection, an ongoing exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.