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© Wolfgang Tillmans, Courtesy Regen Projects

Wolfgang Tillmans: Concrete Columns

Regen Projects | November 6, 2021 - December 23, 2021

Regen Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of works by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans. This presentation marks the artist’s eighth solo show at Regen Projects and precedes a major survey at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, opening in September of 2022. This exhibition will present selections from many of the artist’s most recognized bodies of work, as well as new photographs and a listening room where Tillmans’s debut full-length musical album will play accompanied by a new video work.

The photographs on display range in genre from portraiture and still life to architectural, landscape, astrophotography, abstract, and cameraless photography. The wide-ranging subject matter collectively showcases Tillmans’s unique perspective and his ability to use the many languages of photography to enunciate his trajectory through the world. Tillmans distills our fragmented, image-saturated moment into a subjective experience—capturing the political, personal, and aesthetic at once.

Deana Lawson

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | November 4, 2021 - February 27, 2022

“I photograph family, friends, and strangers, and I operate on the belief that my own being is found in union with those I take pictures of.”

—DEANA LAWSON

This exhibition is the first museum survey dedicated to the work of Deana Lawson (b. 1979 in Rochester, NY), a singular voice in photography today. For more than 15 years, Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of Black life through a wide spectrum of photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, documentary pictures, and appropriated images. Engaging acquaintances as well as strangers she meets on the street, Lawson meticulously poses her subjects in highly staged photographs that picture narratives of family, love, and desire, and create what the artist describes as “a mirror of everyday life, but also a projection of what I want to happen. It’s about setting a different standard of values and saying that everyday Black lives, everyday experiences, are beautiful, and powerful, and intelligent.”

This survey exhibition will include a selection of photographs from 2004 to the present, and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue, featuring the voices and perspectives of a variety of scholars, historians, and writers. Deana Lawson will travel to MoMA PS1 April 14–September 5, 2022 and to the High Museum October 7, 2022–February 19, 2023.

Alex Webb (American, born 1952), *Atlanta*, 1996, dye destruction print, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the H. B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust and Lucinda W. Bunnen, 1996.111. © Alex Webb.

Picturing the South: 25 Years

High Museum of Art | November 5, 2021 - February 6, 2022

In 1996, the High began commissioning photographers from across the world to engage with and explore the American South’s rich social and geographic landscape for its Picturing the South initiative. To date, the Museum has commissioned sixteen artists and has built a collection of more than three hundred photographs as part of the program, which include some of the most iconic photography projects of the last quarter century.

To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Picturing the South, the High will mount a major exhibition that brings together all the commissions for the first time. Taken as a whole, the photographs amount to a complex and layered archive of the region that addresses broad themes, from the legacy of slavery and racial justice to the social implications of the evolving landscape and the distinct and diverse character of the region’s people.

Works on view will include the first photographs in Sally Mann’s Motherland series; Dawoud Bey’s over-life-size portraits of Atlanta high school students; Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley industrial landscapes; along with previous commissions by Alex Webb, Emmet Gowin, Alec Soth, Martin Parr, Kael Alford, Shane Lavalette, Abelardo Morell, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Alex Harris, and Mark Steinmetz; and new commissions by An-My Lê, Sheila Pree Bright, and Jim Goldberg, which will debut in the exhibition.