Pollock and Tureen (traced and painted), Yellow, 1984/2013/2014/2020, archival pigment prints with gouache, framed 33 7/8 x 45 3/8 inches (86 x 115.3 cm) on top of Corner (distorted for the times, perturbée), 2014/2018 (adjusted to fit), adhesi… — *Pollock and Tureen (traced and painted), Yellow*, 1984/2013/2014/2020, archival pigment prints with gouache, framed 33 7/8 x 45 3/8 inches (86 x 115.3 cm) on top of Corner (distorted for the times, perturbée), 2014/2018 (adjusted to fit), adhesive wall vinyl.

Louise Lawler: One Show on Top of the Other

May 3 – June 5, 2021

Louise Lawler presents two exhibitions––one on top of the other.

Distorted for the Times is a selection of Lawler’s works that have been digitally altered to render a sense of unease, as what is to be seen is abstracted into something illegible. Lawler has taken photographs of artworks in various locations and recontextualized them throughout her career. In 2011, she began making works that are "adjusted to fit"—meaning the photograph’s original aspect ratio has been adjusted to match the dimensions of the wall on which it is installed, allowing the scale, location, and environment to directly transform the artwork. In 2017, she began applying digital filters to distort selected images. Three of these distorted and/or adjusted vinyl works are on view here, along with a selection of mounted photographs including Hair and Fur (both 2005/2019), closely cropped images of a Maurizio Cattelan artwork using taxidermied animals and an Andy Warhol fright wig self-portrait.

A Given (Red, Yellow, Blue) presents the artist’s Traced and Painted works together as a group for the first time. In these works, Lawler has painted small sections of print versions of her Traced works––black-and-white images created from tracings of her photographs made by artist and illustrator Jon Buller. The selected application of gouache in the primary colors red, yellow, and blue, its own art historical ‘given,’ abstracts the images even further than do the tracings. The areas the artist chose to paint complicate the hierarchy of what is given prominence.

The two shows are presented simultaneously—one on top of the other.

Lawler was the subject of a one-person exhibition, WHY PICTURES NOW, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2017. Additional one-person exhibitions include Adjusted, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2013); Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (Looking Back), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2006); Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol: In and Out of Place, Dia Beacon, New York (2005); and Louise Lawler and Others, Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2004). She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; MoMA PS1, New York; MUMOK, Vienna; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Whitney Museum, New York, which has additionally featured the artist in its 1991, 2000, and 2008 biennials.

Weegee, Milwaukee (Woman knocked over in a brawl), 1948, Annotations in pencil verso, Silver gelatin print. Printed c. 1948. Vintage, Image: 13 7/16 X 10 1/2 inches Paper: 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches

Maxine Taupin's Photography collection

April 23 - May 14

Jackson Fine Art is proud to announce our online viewing room featuring works from Maxine Taupin’s private photography collection.

Maxine Taupin’s love for photography was sparked when she was gifted her first camera in 1970 from her then husband, Bernie Taupin. Their married life was filled with worldwide travel, concert tours, and recording studios. Her passion for the medium later turned towards meeting and learn- ing about many of the photo icons of the 20th century and then eventually to curating her own photography collection. Her jewel box home, in Beverly Hills, is curated with some of her favorite photographers from classics like Elliott Erwitt and Alfred Eisenstaedt, to Weegee. We are offering 32 works by 21 different photographers in this online viewing room.

Maxine began collecting photography in 2000 as her boyfriend, a German filmmaker, asked her to join him while interviewing various photographers for a documentary film he was making. Meet- ing and hearing the amazing life stores of those inspirational talents was an honor for Maxine.

Her eclectic photography collection represents her connection to the fascinating people and sto- ries captured in the photographs by these exceptional visual storytellers.

“Little did I know that a phone call about a hairdryer in the summer of 1970 would change the course of my life… someone in the band of a touring musical group needed the hairdryer, which led to an introduction to Elton John and Bernie Taupin at the Hyatt House Coffee Shop on the Sunset Strip. It was after this meeting, Bernie asked me to be his date for the legendary Trouba- dour shows, which set the stage for Elton’s Meteoric rise to stardom. It was also the beginning of a fairytale love story. Bernie and I were married in England in 1971.” – Maxine Taupin

Deana Lawson, Axis, 2018. Pigment print. © Deana Lawson, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles — Deana Lawson, *Axis*, 2018. Pigment print. © Deana Lawson, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

Hugo Boss Prize 2020

The Hugo Boss Prize honors outstanding achievement in contemporary art, celebrating the work of remarkable artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time. The biennial prize, established in 1996, sets no restrictions on age, gender, nationality, or medium. Juried by an international panel of distinguished museum directors, curators, and critics, it is administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and carries an award of $100,000. Since its inception in 1996, the Hugo Boss Prize has been awarded to Matthew Barney (1996), Douglas Gordon (1998), Marjetica Potrč (2000), Pierre Huyghe (2002), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004), Tacita Dean (2006), Emily Jacir (2008), Hans-Peter Feldmann (2010), Danh Vo (2012), Paul Chan (2014), Anicka Yi (2016), Simone Leigh (2018), and Deana Lawson (2020). Work by each artist who receives the award is presented in a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize 2020 are:

Nairy Baghramian (b. 1971, Isfahan, Iran)
Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, VA)
Deana Lawson (b. 1979, Rochester, NY)
Elias Sime (b. 1968, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago, Chile)
Adrián Villar Rojas (b. 1980, Rosario, Argentina)

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Where Dreams Lie, 2020 © Adrienne Raquel

Adrienne Raquel ONYX

Apr 22 - Aug 29

Adrienne Raquel’s ONYX ventures beyond the societal stigma often associated with exotic dancing, and depicts a captivating narrative of femininity, sisterhood, self-transformation, and strength among the performers. Through portraiture and environmental vignettes, the dancers are photographed in their most vulnerable yet powerful moments — both on and beyond the performance stage.

ONYX is a completely new photography series created by NYC-based photographer and art director Adrienne Raquel and commissioned by Fotografiska New York. In this alluring and provocative photographic exploration of the famed Club Onyx in Houston, TX, Raquel pushes past the polish and controlled sets of her commercial work, and captures exotic dancers in a more candid and intimate environment. With her signature attention to detail, portrayal of glamour and ability to capture radiant beauty in her subjects, Raquel highlights the nuances of Southern strip club culture while focusing on the relationship dynamics amongst the dancers.

Raquel says –

I am endlessly inspired by femininity and the beauty of the female form, and wanted to approach ONYX from a more impromptu point of view. Elements of fantasy and glamour tend to be present in most of my work. For this series, I was inspired by the allure of the 1990s / early 2000s hip-hop video vixen era. I wanted these photographs to reflect an enticing, timeless, bold visual style — all while capturing the essence of each entertainer from an empowered, artful perspective. ONYX tells a story in the heat of the moment — lending a true unstaged, behind the scenes look into the lifestyle and emotion present in each dancer’s narrative.

Adrienne Raquel is a New York based photographer and art director. Inspired by femininity, soulfulness and color, Adrienne’s work is rooted in nostalgia and fantasy while remaining fresh and contemporary. Her work has been included in Mickalene Thomas’ Better Nights exhibition at Miami’s Bass Museum and The New Black Vanguard, curated by Antwaun Sargent and presented by the Aperture foundation. Select clients include CR Fashion Book, Cultured Magazine, Elle, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Interview Magazine, Playboy, T Magazine, V Magazine and Vanity Fair. ONYX is her first solo exhibition.

Events

FAMILY FUN DAY - Mother's Day Edition: A Community Celebration of Hassan Hajjaj’s Exhibition VOGUE, The Arab Issue

May 9 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 2021

Our special Mother’s Day edition will be led by portrait artist and filmmaker Catalina Kulczar, a natural storyteller who connects easily and authentically with her subjects and what drives them. Her work tends to be project based, or to involve groups of portraits that convey a bigger theme, frequently exploring topics rooted in women’s roles in contemporary work and society.

Included will be a crafting project based on Hassan Hajjaj’s exhibition VOGUE, The Arab Issue where everyone will decorate their own frames.

10am-12pm

Members Cost: Free

Non-Members Cost: $28

Child Ticket Cost: $30

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Inside “The San Quentin Project”—a conversation with Nigel Poor and Reginald Dwayne Betts

Tuesday, May 4

7:00 p.m. EDT

Online Zoom Event

Join Aperture and the Marshall Project for a conversation between artist Nigel Poor and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, celebrating the launch of the book The San Quentin Project (Aperture, 2021). In 2011, Poor began teaching a history of photography class through the Prison University Project (now called Mount Tamalpais College) at San Quentin State Prison, California. Soon, Poor began incorporating images from thousands of negatives from the prison’s vast archive into her visual studies exercises. From the banal to the brutal, to distinct moments of respite, the pictures in this archive gave those who were involved in the project the opportunity to share their stories and reflections on incarceration. In this discussion, moderated by the Marshall Project’s Lawrence Bartley, Poor and Betts reflect on the importance and impact of both the project and the prison archive.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about criminal justice in the United States. Their goal is to make an impact on the criminal justice system with their journalism, rendering it more fair, effective, transparent and humane.

Nigel Poor is a San Francisco Bay Area–based visual artist and professor of photography at California State University, Sacramento. In 2011, she began volunteering at the Prison University Project (now called Mount Tamalpais College) at San Quentin State Prison. In 2017, Poor cocreated the podcast Ear Hustle with Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, who were both incarcerated at San Quentin at the time. Her work has been featured in Aperture magazine’s Spring 2018 issue, “Prison Nation,” and in the New York Times.

Lawrence Bartley is the director of News Inside, the print publication of the Marshall Project, distributed in hundreds of prisons and jails throughout the United States. He is an accomplished public speaker and has provided multimedia content for CNN, PBS, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and more. News Inside is recipient of the 2020 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. Bartley is also the host and co-creator of Inside Story, a new video series from The Marshall Project available in prisons and jails across the country.

Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, memoirist, and teacher. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a lawyer and author of several award-winning books, including Felon: Poems (2019) and A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (2010). Betts is currently pursuing a PhD in law at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and he recently launched the Million Book Project.

Image: Powwow, n.d., mapped by George Mesro Coles-El; from The San Quentin Project (Aperture, 2021). © George Mesro Coles-El, courtesy Aperture. Archival image courtesy San Quentin State Prison

Sara Cwynar and Legacy Russell in conversation

Wednesday, May 5

2:00 p.m. EDT

Join Remai Modern for a conversation with artist Sara Cwynar and writer and curator Legacy Russell as they discuss the culture and history of image making, particularly as it relates to gender and technology. Cwynar will share clips from her work Red Film as well as images and videos from her current exhibition at Remai Modern, Source.

The talk aligns with the forthcoming monograph Glass Life, published by Aperture, which includes a text by Russell. A feminist-inflected investigation of colour and image-driven consumer culture, Glass Life brings together Cwynar’s multilayered portraits and stills from the films Soft Film (2016), Rose Gold (2017), and Red Film (2018).

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Sara Cwynar (b. 1985, Vancouver) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver; Oakville Galleries, ON; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, USA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Germany; and Foam Photography Museum, The Netherlands. Recent group exhibitions include Subjektiv (2017), Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; L’Image Volée (2016), Fondazione Prada, Italy; and Greater New York (2015), MoMA PS1, USA. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2017, she published her first book Kitsch Encyclopedia with Blonde Art Books, and her first monograph, Glass Life is scheduled to be published by Aperture in spring 2021. In 2020, Cwynar was recognized with a Sobey Art Award and the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography.

Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. Curated exhibitions and projects include LEAN (2020) featuring Justin Allen, Jen Everett, Devin Kenny, Kalup Linzy, Rene Matić, Sadé Mica, and Leilah Weinraub for Performa’s Radical Broadcast; This Longing Vessel : Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2019-20 featuring E. Jane, Elliot Reed, and Naudline Pierre (2020); Projects: Garrett Bradley (2020) and Projects 110 : Michael Armitage (2019), organized with Thelma Golden and The Studio Museum in Harlem at MoMA; Dozie Kanu : Function (2019), Chloë Bass : Wayfinding (2019), and Radical Reading Room (2019) at The Studio Museum in Harlem. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, and a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award. Her first book Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020) is published by Verso Books. Her second book, BLACK MEME, is forthcoming via Verso Books.