Zana Briski, Daniel Arnold, Sunil Gupta
Zana Briski, Eastern newts and spider #2, 2019. New York. Unique life-sized gold-toned photogram on gelatin silver paper. 13 13/16 x 10 13/16 in. image on 16 13/16 x 13 13/16 in. mount
Robert Koch Gallery | Zana Briski: Animalograms, October 26, 2023 – December 23, 2023
“Through her one-of-a-kind camera-less photograms, Briski offers viewers a synthesis of art and the natural world, immersing viewers in the realm of wild creatures within their native habitats. The resulting images are a record of the artist’s extraordinary animal encounters, all captured without the reliance on a conventional camera amidst the backdrop of nocturnal woodlands.
“Briski’s ingenious process embraces the serendipitous interplay of uncontrollable and unpredictable factors. With meticulous preparation, Briski delves into a detailed study of her subjects’ natural habitats, forging an intimate connection with their daily routines and the paths they traverse through the wilderness. The artist ventures into wild and remote locations on moonless nights, strategically positioning expansive sheets of light-sensitive photographic paper. In the presence of these majestic animals, she patiently awaits their appearances in complete darkness, at times enduring long, hushed vigils. When a wild inhabitant crosses the paper’s path, she captures a fleeting exposure using a small hand-held flash, ensuring the creature remains undisturbed. The exposed paper is then carefully rolled and stored until Zana Briski later develops each life-size image in the darkroom and only then discovers if a successful image is created. To imbue an additional layer of depth and enhance image permanence, Briski enriches the resulting photogram by gold toning the print.
“Alongside Zana Briski’s Animalograms, the gallery will exhibit a pair of the artist’s Panoranimals works printed on custom handmade Japanese Kozo paper. These panoramic photographs capture vast landscapes and their animal inhabitants, imbuing them with an essence of authenticity and untamed beauty.”
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Coney Midway, 2014 Chromogenic print. 21 x 14 in (53.3 x 35.6 cm) Edition of 7 + 2 APs (DAR-030)
New York Life Gallery | Daniel Arnold: New York Life, October 27, 2023 – December 22, 2023
“New York Life Gallery is pleased to announce Daniel Arnold: New York Life, opening October 27, 2023. Attuned to moments in the city that many fail to notice, Arnold documents the personalities who rush, stumble, and idle through every sidewalk, subway, bodega, park, beach, and ferry throughout the five boroughs. From his vantage point-a camera perched on scaffolding in the rain or nestled to his torso amidst a crowd-he creates a time capsule of the city that is simultaneously unsentimental and imbued with sublime oddity.
“Arnold's photographs feature a broad cast of characters improbably brought together on the street. People who appear archetypal or stereotypical at first glance are revealed for their idiosyncrasies-exposing the uncanny nature of unassuming subjects. Through his candid lens, metropolitan scenes steeped in cliché are distilled back into the raw, bizarre, humorous, and miraculous. In Arnold's universe, there is no right moment, wrong moment, or perfect shot; there is only the impulse to load a new roll and take the next picture. His work is sustained by this forward motion. While each image is an index of a particular place and time, the breadth and scope of Arnold's photographs form a composite image of city life today. In New York, Arnold has found an infinite muse.”
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Image courtesy the artist and Hales London and New York, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. © Sunil Gupta. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
Hales Gallery | Sunil Gupta: The New Pre-Raphaelites, October 19, 2023 – November 18, 2023
“Hales is delighted to announce The New Pre-Raphaelites, celebrated artist Sunil Gupta's third solo exhibition with the gallery. The important series of photographs, originally commissioned in 2008 by Autograph, London, were subject of a solo exhibition at The Holburne Museum, Bath, UK (2022) and were included in his major touring retrospective, From Here to Eternity at The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK; and The Image Centre, Toronto, Canada (2020, 2021, 2022). Most recently the series was presented in Tate Britain's exhibition, The Rossettis (2023). The exhibition at Hales will be the largest presentation of the series in the US.
“The New Pre-Raphaelites is a project centered on LGBTQ+ rights in India. Living in India at the time, Gupta was a key figure in the arts scene, making work that explored and documented queer lives. This body of photographs were made in response to Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a 19th century law criminalising homosexuality. The starting point for each work is a Pre-Raphaelite painting, drawing on the movement's use of classical iconography to make a rebellious point about burgeoning sexuality.”
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