Art Out: Ellen Von Unwerth, Latoya Ruby Frezier and Bennett Miller
@ Ellen Von Unwerth. Kiss Me Too?, Los Angeles, 2017. © Ellen von Unwerth, courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles.
Fahey/Klein Gallery | March 23 – April 29, 2023
Ellen von Unwerth’s thirty-year storied career defined the aesthetic of the 90’s and 2000’s and has made her a staple of fashion photography. Crafting cinematic scenarios for her shoots, Von Unwerth’s flashy, kinky, and humorous photographs invite viewers to come along on a boisterous escapade. The work she has made over the years transcends sexy fashion images and instead represents a modern, confident, and totally unique approach to photography. By furnishing each of her subjects with a new persona to inhabit, she allows their inhibitions to melt away. The story telling aspect of her creative process has allowed her to create images that are never static and beg the question, “what is really going on here?”
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@Latoya Ruby Frezier. More Than Conquerors: A Monument For Community Health Workers Of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022. Archival inkjet prints. ©Latoya Ruby Frezier, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Gladstone Gallery | March 2 – April 15, 2023
LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Her artistic practice spans a range of media, including photography, video, performance, installation art and books, and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change, and commentary on the American experience. Comprising stainless steel IV poles, archival inkjet prints, and text panels, this installation was created as a celebration of the community health workers (CHWs) of Baltimore, Maryland, and proposes a new approach to monument making in the 21st century.
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@Bennett Miller. Lucy, 2022–23, pigment print of AI-generated image, 15 1/2 ~ 15 1/2 inches (39.4 ~ 39.4 cm), edition of 3 + 2 AP. © Bennett Miller, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Gagosian Gallery | March 21–April 22, 2023
The works on view in New York emerged after a five-year period in which Miller researched and shot a documentary film about the technological crossroads at which we now find ourselves. Having interviewed numerous figures involved with artificial intelligence (AI)—including Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the San Francisco–based developer of DALL•E—the artist began using the software to reflect on the nature and progression of shifts in the ways we understand representational artwork. Miller’s new works testify to our crossing of the digital Rubicon. In linking the transformative power of the new technology with the dawn of photography and the birth of mechanical reproduction, they suggest an imminent shift in perception of even greater reach, asking us to reconsider exactly what it means to be human.
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