Sandy Skoglund, McNair Evans and Modern Women/Modern Vision (Group show)
Angels and Strangers, 1991. Archival Pigment Print (printed later), 16 x 20 inches. © Sandy Skoglund, Courtesy of the artist and Janet Borden, Inc.
Janet Borden, Inc. | Sandy Skoglund: The Outtakes, June 8th — August 1st, 2023
Sandy Skoglund is a renowned American installation artist and photographer best known for her fantastical and brightly colored tableaux from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000’s. Skoglund composed elaborate sets, creating surrealist scenes, where an accumulation of props, sculptural elements, and models, made fascinating and strange images. A vague sense of nature gone awry pervades the pieces..
The conceptual nature of her work is sometimes forgotten in the sheer technical bravado of the production. For The Outtakes, Skoglund plumbed her archives to pick out alternative images to those used in her tableaux. These works are a fresh view of her magical world before Photoshop. Some of the narratives shift from the original images in the form of framing decisions, model and other discrepancies expose the artistic process to the discerning eye.
To learn more, visit Janet Borden’s website.
Capital Limited 012001, 2012. Archival inkjet print. © McNair Evans, courtesy of the artist and Tracey Morgan Gallery
Tracey Morgan Gallery | McNair Evans: Tomorrow Ever Comes, June 3rd — July 15th, 2023
Between 2012 and 2022 McNair Evans took 11 trips around the United States traveling by Amtrak, systematically covering every route within their passenger rail system with a cumulative 1,050 hours spent onboard. Photographing fellow passengers, passing landscapes, Amtrak workers, and interior train scenes, Evans’ photographs communicate a persistent hope within this once ubiquitous form of travel.
Prints are exhibited unframed and in a range of sizes – laid out in a lyrical aesthetic. Collaboration between photographer and subject comprises a strong component of the work, and the installation reflects the togetherness of train travel and Evans’ immersive process. Facsimiles of stories that Evans solicited from fellow passengers along his many trips are installed in a loose, interactive manner intended to encourage personal engagement.
To learn more, visit Tracey Morgan Gallery’s website.
Ana Casas Broda. Videogame, 2009, from the series Kinderwunsch (The Desire to Have Children), 2006–2012, inkjet print on cotton rag paper, Bank of America Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Taft Museum of Art
Taft Museum of Art | Modern Women/Modern Vision: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, June 3rd — Spetember 10th, 2023
From 1900 onward, women negotiated waves of social, political, and economic change, leveraging the camera as a means of creativity, financial independence, and personal freedom. Challenging long-standing constraints placed on social behavior and gender roles, women helped establish photography as a vital form of creative expression. They also laid the groundwork and served as role models for subsequent generations of artists.
Drawn from Bank of America’s extensive photography collection, Modern Women/Modern Vision presents about 100 images made between 1905 and 2015. Diverse in style, tone, and subject, these images range from spontaneous to composed, detached to empathetic, and monumental to intimate. The exhibition reveals the bold and dynamic ways women have contributed to the evolution of photography from the early 1900s to the present.
To learn more, visit Taft Museum of Art’s website.
