Art Out: Hours and Days, Still, And, STEVE MCCURRY: INDIA
untitled (Lyle, Bronx, New York, circa mid 1980's) 2022 gelatin silver print image: 12 x 18 inches paper: 16 x 20 inches ed: 2/5 photo credit: Lyle Ashton Harris and Lysle Anthony Brookins
Albert Merola Gallery | Closes August 17th
We are very happy to present the first public presentation of this remarkable exhibition of photographs by Lyle Ashton Harris. This exhibition covers a critical early period of maturation and development in his work. These are photos about being young, about being seen, about sex and love, about the search for happiness and the drive to feel everything one can. There is a kind of slow intimacy depicted here, a tenderness of touch, of softness, of the ease of the familiar. As such, it seems an especially appropriate time to be revisiting them, and re-contextualizing them by bringing them into the dialogue and succession of contemporary gay images, while at the same time demonstrating their interconnectedness with his other work. The photographs in this exhibition are intrinsically joined to both narratives.
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Ryland’s series Portraits of Ephemerality, combines traditional landscape photography with contemporary portrait lighting to isolate the fragile elements of the natural environment most immediately impacted by climate change. Like fossils these photographs create an impression of their physical form in an ever-changing environment. West continues to treat Climate Change as a multi-faceted issue and aligning his work with the scientific community's evolving approach to its resolve.
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery | August 19th- September 22nd
Through photography, film, philosophy, and other multimedia elements, this Parsons MFA class offers viewers time to pause: if we are the purveyors of change in the world, what do we do with this responsibility, with this life? Moving from more microscopic, individualized experiences into more macro observations about culture and the physical spaces humanity occupies, Still, And does not ask for answers, but gives something far more valuable: an open space to think, to choose, to be in-progress and imperfect. For as much time as each artist within this exhibition spends carefully crafting their perspective, they are ultimately at the mercy of the viewer. Whether or not their intended message was what resonated is uncontrollable, and arguably, it is of little consequence. What is photography or art writ large but an endless loop of subjective interpretation upon subjective interpretation? Still, And invites that messiness and uncertainty, that impartiality, that openness. The exhibition is not a solicitation for answers, but an echochamber, a microbiome where the interactions between viewer, art, and artist are not a means to an end, but the means themselves--where it ends is for us to decide.
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Steve McCurry Man Beneath Stairs, India, 2005 ©SteveMcCurry
Sundaram Tagore Gallery | JULY 22 – AUGUST 19, 2022
Sundaram Tagore New York presents images of India by Magnum photographer Steve McCurry (b. 1950) in celebration of 75 years of India’s independence. Over a thirty-year career, McCurry has traveled the Subcontinent and the globe capturing humanity in all its glory and struggle. McCurry’s work has been the subject of solo shows at galleries and museums worldwide, including the Rubin Museum of Art, New York; the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Arsenale di Venezia, Italy; Seoul Arts Center, South Korea; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; and the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore. His work is represented in the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; The International Center of Photography and The George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, among others. McCurry’s photographs are accompanied by select work by gallery artists, including Sohan Qadri, Neha Vedpathak and Olivia Fraser, who have deep ties to the Subcontinent.
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