New Directions: Recent Acquisitions
George Eastman Museum : 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607
March 16, 2024 – October 6, 2024
Link: Kodak Museum
As part of the slate of programs in honor of the 75th anniversary of the public opening of the George Eastman Museum, New Directions: Recent Acquisitions features work acquired by the museum over the past five years and showcases significant developments in photographic practice. The exhibition title echoes New Acquisitions/New Directions/New Work, 1981–1989, organized by curator Robert Sobieszek on what was the museum’s 40th anniversary.
Throughout New Directions, the photographic image figures as a tool to fortify—but also unsettle—ideas about history and identity. Performances staged for the camera enable artists to explore and break with the conventions of gender, making the home or studio an experimental theater for engaging the world at large. While some of the artists embrace photography as a documentary medium, others develop strategies to destabilize the authority of the image. Some work to explicitly make visible the myriad ways that the past shapes the present. As instruments of power, archives become platforms to be challenged, subject to reinterpretation and reconfiguration. Found and appropriated materials offer practical, but also critical, approaches to reflecting on contemporary life and the status of images in the digital era. Likewise, recent approaches to the natural environment and the human landscape register the legacies of modern warfare, industrial pollution, and social inequity.
Alongside photographs made in the past decade, the exhibition includes works by artists who were often overlooked or marginalized in the past, but whose contributions are touchstones for contemporary art.
Under Water
Granary Arts: 86 N Main Street, Ephraim, Utah 84627
May 22, 2024- September 20, 2024
Link: Granary Arts
Under Water includes thirteen photographic works that span ongoing series in Eileen Quinlan's creative practice. Through a meticulous examination of contemporary environmental and political conditions, Quinlan’s abstract works of decaying analog film and recontextualized appropriated imagery, explore themes of propaganda and spectacle, celestial and natural environments, and domestic narratives.
Permanent Collection
Art Institute of Chicago: 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603
Link: AIC
Accrochage 2
Miguel Abreu Gallery: 88 Eldridge Street, NY, NY 10002
July 8- September 7 2024
Link: Miguel Abreu
Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to present accrochage 2, an installation of works in conversation by gallery artists.