*Mardi Gras, Orleans and Claiborne*, 1996. Polo Silk. Unique Polacolor Print. Museum Purchase, Tina Freeman Fund, 2021.69
© Polo Silk, Fab 5 Legacy Archive

The New Orleans Museum of Art | July 16 - Jan. 8, 2022

“The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Picture Man: Portraits by Polo Silk, on view July 16, 2022–January 8, 2023. For more than three decades, Selwhyn Sthaddeus “Polo Silk” Terrell (American, born 1964) has been photographing New Orleans, creating a unique body of work that blends elements of portraiture, fashion, performance, and street photography. Picture Man explores how Polo Silk blends all of those elements and illustrates his contributions in the history of American photography. The exhibition features more than 35 images by Silk spanning 20 years from 1987–2007, with an emphasis on the 1990s.” (NOMA Press Release)

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Barbara Strigel, A Field is a Passage, 2022

Kelda Van Patten, More elegantly muscular than delicate (after Strange Plants III), 2021

Foto Relevance | July 16 - Sept. 3, 2022

“Foto Relevance is pleased to present Restless Symmetries: Barbara Strigel and Kelda Van Patten. This show marks the gallery's debut exhibition of works by each artist, selected from portfolio reviews at PhotoLucida 2022. Restless Symmetries will be on view at Foto Relevance from July 16th through September 3rd, 2022. Barbara Strigel’s collages investigate architecture as the visual language of a city as well as the physicality of the city, the people who navigate it, the balance of connection, and separation within the urban space, while Kelda Van Patten’s constructed photographs explore the liminal spaces between artifice and truth, imagination and the real, and mimesis and the origin.” (Foto Relevance Press Release)

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Ahmet Ertuğ (1949). Selimiye Mosque, Edirne, Turkey, 1998. Archival pigment print. 60 x 49 1/4 in. (152.4 x 125.1 cm). Edition of 5 + 2 AP

Bruce Silverstein | July 14 – Sept. 17, 2022

“Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present Edifice as Artifact, an exhibition focusing on the monumental, large-scale color photographs of Turkish artist Ahmet Ertuğ. In this exhibition, Ertuğ reflects upon images produced over the last 50 years in his homeland, Istanbul, Turkey, exhibiting dramatic large-scale color photographs taken within some of the world’s most historical and aesthetically significant structures: the Hagia Sophia, the Topkapı Palace, and the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne. From Unesco World Heritage Sites, vaulting places of worship, and opulent palazzos, to staid university libraries, magnificent theaters, and classically styled banks, Ertuğ’s formalist photographs have explored the role of architectural spaces within all segments of society and presented them as stand-alone works of art.” (Bruce Silverstein Gallery Press Release)

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