Art Out: Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, Patty Carroll, Bill Owens
Kou Inose, Aomori, 1983; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; © Kou Inose
Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue
SFMOMA | San Francisco | November 20, 2021 - August 21, 2022
Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue presents recent acquisitions by an exciting group of local and international artists alongside existing holdings to explore how, together, these works can expand, deepen, and complicate the stories we tell, sparking thought-provoking connections and activating fresh and unexpected narratives. Organized into six galleries,
the exhibition features approximately two hundred works of art, many of which are on view at SFMOMA for the first time. It showcases the collection’s strengths, particularly in Japanese photography, the documentary tradition, and work by Bay Area artists. Constellations also highlights SFMOMA’s ever-expanding contemporary photography holdings, featuring artists such as Poklong Anading, Daisuke Yokota, Wendy Red Star, and Clare Strand, alongside familiar favorites including Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams.
The four curators collaborating on this exhibition have each chosen a single image or group of new acquisitions as a point of departure. The result is six unique galleries, all creating moments of dialogue, resonance, and even tension, suggesting just some of the many ways to interpret SFMOMA’s remarkable photography collection.
© Patty Carroll, Mad Mauve, 2018
© Bill Owens, Our house is built with the living room in the back, so in the evenings, we sit out front of the garage and watch the traffic go by, 1971
Patty Carroll: Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise & Bill Owens: Suburbia
Courtesy PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX | November 20, 2021 - February 12, 2022
PDNB Gallery features two solo exhibitions by gallery artists, Patty Carroll and Bill Owens. This will be the first solo show for Patty Carroll, who is based in Chicago, Illinois. Bill Owens has had a large presence in the gallery since the early 2000’s, when we first featured his groundbreaking series from the early 1970’s, Suburbia.
In recent years, Patty Carroll (b. 1946, Chicago, Illinois) has explored the traditional and contemporary “housewife” role, by creating scenes of exaggerated chaos that often consumes the subject, which is a woman.
Speaking of suburban culture, Bill Owens (b. 1938, San Jose, California) was the early documentarian of suburbia! In the late 1960’s, this photographer had an epiphany to document America’s movement into the suburbs of northern California.
