Xuan Hui Ng, Elinor Carucci, Miho Kajioka
©Xuan Hui Ng
Griffin Museum of Photography | Xuan Hui Ng: Transcendence: Awakening the Soul, December 13, 2023 – January 2, 2024
“Acclaimed photographer Xuan Hui Ng presents Transcendence: Awakening the Soul, 唤醒灵魂, 超越自我, a photographic exhibition that invites viewers to embark on a profound journey of healing, hope, and rediscovery. This showcase celebrates the ethereal beauty of nature through Xuan Hui Ng's lens and opens a window into the artist's remarkable path of personal transformation.
“Xuan Hui's photographs are a testament to the profound connection between humanity and the natural world, embodying the Chinese idiom "天时地利人和," emphasizing the importance of fortuitous timing, favorable conditions, and human resolve. Through her lens, viewers are invited to share in the serendipitous encounters, fleeting moments, and lasting memories that have guided her healing and growth.
“The artist's dedication to the weary, the lost, and the lonesome, shines through in each image, which are just as vast as they are intimate. Transcendence: Awakening the Soul is not only a celebration of Xuan Hui Ng's personal journey but an opportunity for all to connect with the transformative power of nature, and the beauty of the Japanese landscape. The exhibition will be open to the public from December 13, 2023 to January 7th, 2024 at The Griffin Museum of Photography.”
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Elinor Carucci. Husband Marty Ginsburg's words, "It’s not sacrifice, it’s family", 2020
Edwynn Houk Gallery | Elinor Carucci: The Collars of RBG, December 14, 2023 – February 10, 2024
“Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to present Elinor Carucci’s photographs of the collars of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in conjunction with the publication of her fifth monograph, The Collars of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Portrait of Justice, with Sara Bader (Clarkson Potter/Random House, 14 November 2023). There will be an opening reception and book signing with the artist on Thursday, December 14th, and the exhibition will continue through February 10th, 2024.
“The Collars of RBG extended Carucci’s oeuvre into the format of still life after Time Magazine asked her to document the Supreme Court justice’s iconic collars in 2020. With her penchant for unlocking private relationships through intimate details, Carucci frames Ginsburg’s neckwear as evocations of symbols of her position.
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been called the ‘the most important woman lawyer in the history of the republic’ for her tireless championing of gender equality before the law, ascending the highest court in the land as the second woman in its history, thirty years ago. Ginsburg’s arguments are famously fierce – the nickname “Notorious” (first coined by then-law- student/blogger Shana Knizhnik in 2013, now widely adopted) aligns Ginsburg’s with the stylings of Biggie Smalls, two Brooklyn-born wordsmiths known for assertiveness and charismatic flow. Ginsburg credited her literary style to the influence of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov with whom she studied in the 1950s, but her legal writing is notably concise compared to these influences. Her sartorial expressions carried far more bombast, as Sara Bader’s essay makes clear:
“The collars themselves are internationally iconic, and Carucci’s elegant portraits meditate on the intimate proximity to this powerful woman. Their palpable physicality reminds the viewer of the powerful symbolism woven throughout the history of women's craft, decoration, costume, and jewelry, and the closeness to the body of one of the most powerful women in American history. Ginsburg’s collars evince a throughline in Carucci’s work of exploring strength and vulnerability via profound closeness to the human body.
“An installation of a full set of collars, along with other works by Elinor Carucci, is on view at the Jewish Museum from 15 December 2023 through 28 May 2024, as part of their exhibition RBG Collars: Photographs by Elinor Carucci in their Scenes from the Collection.”
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BK0068, 2010, Toned gelatin silver print, 12 1/8 x 18 inches. © Miho Kajioka
Howard Greenberg Gallery | Miho Kajioka: The Lingering Transcendence of the Ephemeral, December 2, 2023 – February 10, 2024
“On view now through February 10th. Kajioka’s (b. 1973, Japan, currently lives in Paris) artistic practice is in principal snapshot based; she carries her camera everywhere and intuitively takes photos of whatever she finds interesting. These collected images serve as the basic material for her work in the darkroom where she creates her poetic and suggestive image-objects through elaborate, alternative printing methods.”
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