Art Out: Bruce Silverstein, Bruce Davidson, Cho Gi-Seok
©Michael Wolf, Transparent City #78, 2007
Digital C-print, 48 x60 inches (121.92 x 152.4)
Bruce Silverstein Gallery | December 16, 2021 – February 19, 2022
Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce REWIND, a celebration of our 20th anniversary. Featuring works selected from over one hundred exhibitions, REWIND is an opportunity to revisit the gallery's ever-evolving program and to salute the extraordinary artists who have entrusted the gallery with their legacies.
Bruce Davidson, Blood-stained Car, Selma, Alabama, 1965. Gelatin silver print, 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
The Menil Collection | December 10, 2021 - May 29, 2022
Primarily drawn from an anonymous gift to the Menil Collection of approximately 350 works by American photographer Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), the exhibition highlights his sustained engagement with social and political concerns. He is known for establishing personal relationships with his subjects, working over extended periods of time in diverse places and communities to create in-depth series that capture, what he has described as, “worlds in transition.” Examples include people in New York City’s Central Park (in the 1960s and early 1990s), the rigidly stratified class structure in postwar Britain (in the 1960s), and Time of Change, his critically acclaimed images of the American civil rights movement (from 1960 to 1965). Seeking a shared humanity, Davidson enters circumscribed worlds and offers an intimate perspective through his images of circus performers, Brooklyn gang members, Welsh miners, the neighborhoods of East Harlem, and Jewish cafeterias on the Lower East Side of New York City.
© Cho Gi-Seok, Nostalgia #2, 2020
Fotografiska | December 10, 2021 - February 6, 2022
Fotografiska New York is proud to present Coexistence, an exhibition of photography featuring the work of artist Cho Gi- Seok. Coexistence is Cho Gi-Seok’s first major exhibition, which showcases a range of his photographic work created between 2018-2020. Gi-Seok’s photographs are characterized by deliberate compositions, where each choice – such as light, colors,props and clothes – have been carefully considered. He aims to capture the beauty inside his imagination, and portray human existence in relation to his own generation. Whether a portrait of a person or a flower, his work reflects the complexity of Korean culture and the ambiguity of beauty stemming from the harmony between opposites.
