Sheila Metzner, Clifford Prince King + Ryan Patrick Krueger, Marco Lando

Lisa. Red Jumpsuit, 1980. Sheila Metzner (American, born 1939) Pigment print Getty Museum
© Sheila Metzner 2023.42.1

Getty Museum | Sheila Metzner: From Life, October 31, 2023 – February 18, 2024

This exhibition celebrates the artistry of the internationally acclaimed American photographer Sheila Metzner, who made her mark on the history of late 20th-century photography in the areas of fashion and still life. Metzner’s unique style blends aspects of Pictorialism and Modernism to forge an aesthetic that not only stands out in the history of photography, but became closely associated with the best of 1980s fashion, beauty, and decorative arts trends.

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Ryan Patrick Krueger, Untitled, 2023. Courtesy of the Artist and Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY 

Clifford Prince King. sunkissed, (Malik), 2023. Courtesy of the Artist and Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY 

Rivalry Projects | Clifford Prince King + Ryan Patrick Krueger: keep a place for me, November 3, 2023 – December 22, 2023

“Clifford Prince King & Ryan Patrick Krueger: keep a place for me tenderly intertwines King and Krueger’s practices to offer a mediation on queer coming of age experiences. Long time friends, and collaborators, both King and Krueger utilize photography as a way to memorialize, archive, and sustain images of connection. The exhibition will include new photographs and collage to look back upon the lived experiences of adolescence and the development of identity.

“Clifford Prince King uses photography to reenact, prolong, and celebrate moments of pleasure and interpersonal connection. Drawing upon lived experience, and often photographing lovers past and present, King's images recall moments to create a tangible extension of memory. For this exhibition King presents a selection of photographs from 2017 to 2023 that capture moments of quiet intimacy, along with new collages that utilize vintage porn magazines, durag boxes, and vernacular photographs that tap into a collective material consciousness.

“In keep a place for me, Ryan Patrick Krueger will debut a new body of collage-based wall works that utilize found materials. Sourcing photobooth pictures, everyday objects, and queer publications, both pre- and post-Stonewall, from Ebay, thrift stores, and happenstance encounters, Krueger works with memory – collective, individual, and those lost to time – to collect, reframe, and recover a lost visual history of queer intimacy. Searching for signs of life within ephemera and keepsakes, Krueger’s work charts a queer, historical presence through narratives lost and forgotten in the weeds of time.

“Both Clifford Prince King and Ryan Patrick Krueger use photography as an ode to sentimental experiences while bringing hidden spaces and charged moments to the foreground. keep a place for me points to impermanence, desire, and evidence of lives lived.”

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Alchemy #44, 2020. Digital Giclee Archival Print on Baryta Paper Prestige 340 gsm. Mounted on dibond and wood frame, 24x15 in.

Viridian Artists | Marco Lando: The Trip, October 31, 2023 – November 26, 2023

“Viridian Artists is pleased to present The Trip, Marco Lando’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. On view from October 31 through November 25, it will feature an installation of recent video work and photographs that continue the artist’s interest in creating celestial mise-en-scenes that, portentous and dreamy, evoke the loss of symbolic order. The Opening Reception will take place on November 2, from 6–8pm.

An interview and talk with the artist will take place on Thursday, November 16 from 6–8pm.

“The Trip comprises a series of four eponymous black-and-white videos (all created in 2023), wherein stark and solemn skyscrapers float through cosmic space. These architectural paeans to a lost civilization slowly rise, tilt, and move with no apparent purpose. Unmoored by gravity and function, they are sci-fi ruins from a defunct planet set adrift in a cold, godless universe. Though the movements in each video represent the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), the paths they trace ultimately lead nowhere. So too, the lights that inexplicably blaze on and off in their windows punctuating the darkened skies like a grid of stars, illuminate nothing beyond their contours.

“Lando treats his buildings like living entities – almost human, but not quite – and they gain their eery, forlorn affect accordingly. The soundtrack accompanying these videos reflects this ghostly quality with its merging of the mechanical and organic. Combining the sounds of creaking metal with whale cry recordings, it distorts and manipulates any distinction between the two. Rather than convey ideas of a harmonious, efficient technology, Lando’s celestial music is marked by imperfection and uncertainty.

“Accompanying the video installation will be a suite of photographs from Lando’s ongoing series, Alchemy (2016-present). These black-and-white images depicting still versions of the imagery in the videos are also manipulated digitally, and function as freeze frames or stills. More romantic in tone, they offer a softness that counters the ominous sensibility of the videos, injecting an atmospheric quality to the overall installation that invites viewers to imagine themselves drifting along with the buildings in a somnolent bliss.”

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