Pacifico SilanoA Tight Grip, 2022UV laminated archival pigment print mounted on Museum Box and Photo Tex50 x 42 x 1.5 in (127 x 106.7 x 3.8 cm)Edition of 3 + 1 APPS11968

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles| July 23 – September 3, 2022

Pacifico Silano is known for sourcing archival images of gay pornography, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, to interrogate white masculinity and American clichés through the lens of queer desire. He creates his work by photographing, rather than scanning, the archival photographs he has collected. Silano often layers them physically on top of each other, sometimes repeating the process with several magazines, and then takes a picture of the final layout. He makes further edits to those images by cropping or scaling them to show the pixelated grain, paper fibers, rough edges, or a detail of the magazine spine.

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America Seen through Stars and Stripes, New York City, New York, about 1976 Ming Smith (American, active since 1970s) Gelatin silver print 31.8 × 47 cm (12 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund © Ming Smith EX.2022.2.91

Getty Museum| July 19–October 9

“The work in this exhibition highlights Black Americans behind and in front of the camera. The Museum regularly features individual artists in monographic exhibitions, but it is important also to document and celebrate the importance of collaborative groups such as the Kamoinge Workshop,” says Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. “Working Together reflects Getty’s continuing efforts to diversify our collection, and thereby represent a more expansive history of photography. To that end, several of the works shown in the exhibition were recently acquired for the Museum’s collection.”

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*Thomas*, 1986, © The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission. Courtesy Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.

Weinstein Hammons Gallery| July 22 - September 3

This exhibition presents photographs Robert Mapplethorpe shot outside of his studio, from Fire Island to Los Angeles, London to Puerto Rico. The selection of photographs exemplifies Mapplethorpe’s iconic style even without the control his Manhattan studio provided him. His continued interest in light and shadow is represented in Apartment Windows, where the silhouette of a nearby building dramatically darkens the windows of an apartment complex. Mapplethorpe’s tight and precise cropping is evident in the photograph of Thomas, who is dramatically backlit against a cloudless sky.

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