Paul Kwilecki, Jess T. Dugan, Andrew Moore
Paul Kwilecki, Mr Ward in his hardware store 1968
TEN NINETEEN | Paul Kwilecki: Decatur County, November 16, 2023 – December 30, 2023
“TEN NINETEEN is honored to present an exhibition of photographs by Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) from the collection of The Do Good Fund. More than forty black-and-white photographs representing Kwilecki’s record of his home community will be on view at the Lower Garden District gallery.
“Kwilecki was a self-taught photographer who chose to spend his life in Bainbridge, Georgia, the Decatur County town where he was born and raised. His life’s work, a remarkable photographic project spanning more than four decades, began in 1960 when he photographed Black agricultural workers preparing covers for a shade-tobacco crop. He conveys a deep empathy for those workers, as well as for rural residents, factory workers, and others who were taken for granted. Despite his central position in the public life of Bainbridge — for years he ran the hardware store his grandfather had established — Kwilecki maintained an outsider’s perspective, drawn in particular to subjects whose humanity was exploited or ignored. His photographs are neither political nor polemical. Rather, he sought to create clear and truthful documents, focusing on subjects he found “vivid and substantial.” The resulting images are highly instinctive and personal, embracing complexity, ambiguity, and feeling.
“Kwilecki arranged his photographs according to themes, such as workers, religious life, shoppers, and social events. He shot in venues like factories, shanties, and the courthouse. Among the subjects of the photographs on view at Ten Nineteen are farm workers, merchants, prison laborers, county fairs, the bus station, and the Flint River.”
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Jess T. Dugan, Vanessa (mirror), 2013.
CONTAINER | Jess T. Dugan: I Want You to Know My Story, November 17, 2023 – January 5, 2024
“Jess T. Dugan: I want you to know my story is an exhibition of new work by artist Jess T. Dugan. Dugan’s work explores identity through photography, video, and writing. Drawing from their experience as a queer, nonbinary person, their work is motivated by an existential need to understand and express themself and to connect with others. This immersive exhibition includes new photographs from their ongoing series Look at me like you love me, an audio soundtrack of their voice reading personal, diaristic texts, and the debut of a new video, Letter to My Daughter. The installation at CONTAINER marks an important evolution in the artist’s work: engaging deeply with the power of storytelling through immersive, interdisciplinary installations.
“Jess T. Dugan: I want you to know my story showcases a selection of recent photographs including portraits of individuals, couples, self-portraits, and still lifes. The project is both outward-looking and self-expressive, representing inclusive notions of gender and sexuality and examining intimate connection as a means of seeing oneself through the eyes of others.”
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Andrew Moore, Jill's Keep in the Walnut grove, Rhinebeck NY 2021. Courtesy of Yancey Richardson
Yancey Richardson | Andrew Moore: Whiskey Point and Other Tales, November 16, 2023 – January 6, 2024
“NEW YORK – New work by acclaimed photographer Andrew Moore will be on view at Yancey Richardson from November 16, 2023, through January 6, 2024 and Other Tales, delves into the dazzling scenes and moody vistas of the storied Hudson Valley for investigating the intersections of historical moments in the U.S. and abroad, documenting. The exhibition, Whiskey Point of New York. Through his vividly colored, large-scale photographs, Andrew Moore is known the natural and built landscapes in places such Detroit, the American South, the Great Plains, New York City, Cuba, and Bosnia. Whiskey Point refers to a strip of land that juts out into the Hudson River in Ulster County where the surrounding soil was once cleared for brick production. Today it is part of a new park named after African American abolitionist and suffragette Sojourner Truth who was born a slave in Ulster County in 1797.
“From the mythological tales of the Indigenous Lenape and the Norse Viking sagas to the Hudson River School painters, the Hudson Valley region possesses a magical, yet familiar attraction. Moore presents a layered approach to photography and storytelling by interweaving narrative with documentary and personal experiences with historical and generational events. The work reveals different kinds of lineages, such as how artists borrow from and remake art history.
“During one of his expeditions, Moore came across another photographer standing with a camera on a tripod in front of a magnificent view of the Hudson River and Whiskey Point. The scene could not have been better composed if Moore had directed it himself – a modern-day model of a Hudson River School painting directly in front of him. For Moore, that one moment summed up the work of generations of artists who have elegantly captured the layers of history and beauty in the region.”
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