DANNY LYON – PRISON

Posted on 2019-12-09

Danny Lyon spent fourteen months photographing the daily lives of inmates from seven Texas prisons. The result was his seminal 1967-1968 prison series, which includes both empathetic portraits and images of the stark conditions of incarceration.

Although Lyon took these photographs more than fifty years ago, his work remains as powerful and haunting as ever. Lyon’s thoughtful examination of life in the U.S. prison system invites reflection on current issues as well as our shared humanity.

Opposite – Cell block table, 1967/1968

Exhibition runs through to January 5th, 2020

Allentown Art Museum
31 North Fifth Street
Allentown
18101 PA

www.allentownartmuseum.org

  

KONRAD LUEG

Posted on 2019-12-09

A seminal figure of the German postwar art scene, Konrad Lueg (1939–1996) mobilized unconventional materials and exhibition formats to critique the rise of mass consumerism and the burgeoning commercial art world in mid-century Germany. Better known as Konrad Fischer, the legendary gallerist who represented artists Carl Andre, Charlotte Posenenske, Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Hanne Darboven, and Bruce Nauman, among others, Lueg worked as an artist in the 1960s. This exhibition, the second of Lueg’s work at Greene Naftali, presents a selection of works from 1963–1968. Contextualizing the pivotal end of Lueg’s career as an artist and the 1967 opening of Konrad Fischer Galerie with a group of early works, the exhibition traces his bold material and formal investigations.

Opposite – Red and Green Thingamajigs, 1966

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2019

Greene Naftali
508 West 26th Street
NY 10001
New York

www.greenenaftaligallery.com

  

1917

Posted on 2019-12-09

Sam Mendes, director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, 1917.

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones’ Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake’s own brother among them.

In theatres January 10th, 2020

www.1917.movie

  

DIANE MEYER – BERLIN

Posted on 2019-12-09

Made over the course of seven years, the photographs trace the entire, circa 96 mile path of the former Berlin Wall, taking in sites in the German capital’s city center, as well as the outskirts of the city through suburbs and the surrounding countryside.

Sections of the photographs have been obscured by cross-stitch embroidery, sewn directly into the photograph. This stitching is a signature mark of the artist across her artworks. The embroidery is made to resemble pixels and borrows the visual language of digital imaging in an analog, tactile process. In many images, the embroidered sections represent the exact scale and location of the former Wall offering a pixelated view of what lies behind. In this way, the embroidery appears as a translucent trace in the landscape of something that no longer exists but is a weight on history and memory.

Opposite – Former Guard Tower Off Puschkinallee (2013)

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2020

Klompching Gallery
89 Water Street
New York
11201 NY

www.klompching.com

  

RICHARD SEXTON – ENIGMATIC STREAM

Posted on 2019-12-09

Richard Sexton is a fine art and media photographer whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide. His work has been published in magazines such as Abitare, Archetype, Harper’s, Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Photographer’s Forum, and View Camera. His upcoming book, Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River, which will be published in September of 2019 by The Historic New Orleans Collection, is the 14th book he has authored, co-authored, or photographed.

Opposite – Norco at Night, 2015

Exhibition runs through to January 5th, 2020

A Gallery for Fine Photography
241 Chartres Street
New Orleans
70130 LA

agallery.com

  

BABAK GOLKAR – THE ELEPHANT (AN INTERMISSION)

Posted on 2019-12-09

“The Elephant (an intermission)” is a solo exhibition by Babak Golkar which is a chapter of “All the Blind Men”, the title chosen by artist Babak Golkar to frame his three year long ongoing research into the role and responsibility of images in the formation of a political climate. “All the Blind Men” can read as a reference to the mass—or rather the “swarm” —of people who blindly wander in the mediascape grabbing at bits and pieces of truth while failing to understand the bigger picture. In the time of fake news and Cambridge Analytica, the information we gather visually tends to be fabricated by algorithms, allowing images to serve political agendas and to manufacture consent through the manipulation of our emotions. Much like the history of art is entangled with that of propaganda, the role of the artist is intertwined with the power structures that filter what is made visible.

Opposite – Dead Feet – December 3, 2017

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2019

Sabrina Amrani
Madera, 23
28004 Madrid
Spain

www.sabrinaamrani.com