Mitch Epstein
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.
Alex Prager's photograph, Crowd #1 (Stan Douglas), is currently on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The work was acquired by the museum in 2011.
Alex Prager's first solo museum show is on display at FOAM Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam through October 14, 2012. Prager was the 2012 winner of the FOAM Paul Huf Award, a prize organized by the museum and awarded annually to a young photographer. The exhibition includes Prager's new series, Compulsion, as well as the artist's new film, La Petite Mort.
Alex Prager's New York Times Magazine series, Touch of Evil, has been nominated for the 33rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in the "New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture" category. The series of portraits and short films features Oscar nominated actors reprising roles of infamous Hollywood villains.
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.
Mitch Epstein recently collaborated with cellist Erik Friedlander on a limited edition LP based on music composed for a presentation Epstein made last summer at the Arles Photography Festival. Additionally, Epstein and Tate Museum curator Simon Baker will discuss Epstein's photography as a part of the Prix Pictet Conversations on Photography, at Whitechapel Gallery in London on Saturday, May 12 at 4:30 pm.
Seven works by Alex Prager will feature in State of the Art - New Contemporary Photography, at NRW-Forum in Dusseldorf, Germany, opening February 4, in conjunction with the release of a book of the same title published by Feymedia for international distribution.
Nine works by Alex Prager will be featured in a major group exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, opening November 11. The exhibition - No fashion, please! - explores the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance, and will feature Prager, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Erwin Olaf, and Viniane Sassen, among others.
Mitch Epstein's acclaimed series American Power is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland through November 20. Epstein was awarded the prestigious Prix Pictet Photography Prize for American Power, a series that examines the production and consumption of energy in the United States and its impact on society and the American landscape.
Gallery artists Olivo Barbieri, Mitch Epstein, and Victoria Sambunaris are included in The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, opening September 24th and running through January 8, 2012.
Mitch Epstein's acclaimed series American Power is currently on display in Paris at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, through July 24, and is also included in New Documentary Forms at the Tate Modern in London, through March 31, 2012.
Alex Prager's photograph Crowd #1 (Stan Douglas) has been acquired by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. The piece is currently on display in the museum's exhibition Another Story: Possessed by the Camera, Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection.
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.
Several large-scale photographs and a short film by gallery artist Alex Prager will feature in MOMA's prestigious New Photography 2010, opening to the public on September 29th.
Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design present the latest installment of the Parsons Lecture Series: photographer Alex Prager in conversation with gallerist Yancey Richardson.
Thursday, September 30, 2010, at 6:30 pm. FREE
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Photographs by gallery artists Mitch Epstein, Alex Prager, and Bertien van Manen are currently on display in Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, a new exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, open through January 2, 2011.
Alex Prager has been selected as one of four artists to be included in the prestigious New Photography 2010 at MOMA, opening September 29, 2010.
The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art have both recently acquired photographs by Alex Prager for inclusion in their permanent collections. Additionally, the North Carolina Museum of Art has also recently acquired Prager's work.
Alex Prager's work has been selected for the group exhibition Embarrassment of Riches, opening September 17, 2010 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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.
Epstein's latest project tackles one of the most loaded issues on the nation's agenda: what and who powers America? American Power is Epstein's portrait of early twenty-first-century America, as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible and sustainable future.
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Opening October 9th at Cinema Village - 22 E 12th St, NYC.
Mitch Epstein's works Dad, Hampton Ponds III, 2003 and Apartment 304, 398 Main Street, 2001 were recently acquired by the Brooklyn Museum are on now on exhibit at the museum in Extended Family: Contemporary Connections. Steidl has also recently released Epstein's 9th monograph, American Power.
Legendary modernist photographer Julius Shulman passed away at his home on July 15, 2009. The preeminent architectural photographer of the 20th century, Shulman chronicled the Modernist landmark buildings of Southern California and elsewhere over five decades. The gallery has represented Shulman since 1995.
Julius Shulman's iconic photograph Case Study House #22, 1960 was included in the Museum of Modern Art Spring 2009 exhibition Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West.
