NAN GOLDIN
*Thora at home, Brooklyn, NY,* 2020
dye sublimation print on aluminum
© Nan Goldin, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Marian Goodman Gallery

Fraenkel Gallery | Mar. 2 - Apr. 29, 2023

Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present Nan Goldin’s fifth exhibition with the gallery since 1994. Memory Lost, the exhibition’s centerpiece, is a slideshow in which Goldin explores the darkness of drug addiction through images and recordings from her extensive archive. The exhibition also features dreamlike photographs from Memory Lost, along with a recent series of intimate portraits made at home during the pandemic. The gallery will host a public event with the artist on a date to be announced.

Projected in a darkened room, Memory Lost presents a haunting and emotional narrative comprised of outtakes drawn from Goldin’s archive of thousands of slides. Depicting scenes from her life and circle of friends, the 24-minute piece recounts the pain and fleeting moments of beauty in life lived through the lens of addiction. Presented for the first time on the West Coast, the piece includes a score commissioned from composer and musician Mica Levi, with additional music by CJ Calderwood and Soundwalk Collective, interwoven with Goldin’s own voice, answering machine tapes from the 1980s, and contemporary interviews.

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Larry Sultan
*Empty Pool* from the series *Pictures*
*from Home,* 1991
Archival pigment print
Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery

Mitch Epstein
*Santa Monica, California II*, 1974
Chromogenic print
Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery

Yancey Richardson | Feb. 23 - Apr. 8, 2023

Yancey Richardson is pleased to present Pictures from Home, an exhibition of photographs by Larry Sultan on view from February 23 to April 8. The exhibition coincides with a Broadway play of the same name, starring Nathan Lane, Zoë Wanamaker, and Danny Burstein at Studio 54.

Pictures from Home chronicles Sultan’s parents’ pursuit of the American dream, played out in the suburban landscapes of Los Angeles and Palm Desert, California. A hybrid of documentary and staged photography often touched with tender irony, his photographs mine the psychological nuances in daily family interaction. Sultan’s images negotiate between reality and fantasy, domesticity and desire, revealing the personal and the idiosyncratic in the flow of ordinary life.

NEW YORK—For five decades, the photographer Mitch Epstein has taken the American scene as his subject. His iconic images of the nation at leisure in a pre-selfie, pre-digital era will be on view at Yancey Richardson from February 23 through April 8, 2023. Titled Recreation, the exhibition portrays American celebrations, rituals, competitions, travel and other pursuits from 1973 to 1988. With a wry and subtle wit, Epstein presents a late 20th century America seeking fun and relaxation in ways that are compelling, joyful, and sometimes questionable. The complete series of Recreation was recently published in a new updated edition (Steidl, 2022), which expands on the first edition published by Steidl in 2005.

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Berenice Abbott American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine
Title: West Street
Descriptive title: [View of low-rise buildings and street life with skyscrapers in background] 1936
Gelatin silver print
19.1 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in. )
Gift of Jane and Mark Ciabattari, 2000
2000.593

The Met | Mar. 2 - Sept. 4, 2023

Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 2, 2023, Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 will present selections from a unique unbound album of photographs of New York City created by American photographer Berenice Abbott(1898–1991), shedding new light on the creative process of one of the great artists of the 20th century. Consisting of 266 small black-and-white prints arranged on 32 pages, the album comprises a kind of photographic sketchbook, offering a rare glimpse of an artist’s mind at work. In addition to some 20 framed album pages, the exhibition will feature photographs from The Met collection of Paris streets by Eugène Atget, whose archive Abbott purchased and promoted; views of New York by her contemporaries Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White; and selections fromAbbott’s federally funded documentary project, Changing New York(1935–39).

The exhibition is made possible by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc.

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