Aaron Siskind Exhibition
Alan Klotz Gallery
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Aaron Siskind led two lives, one as a seriously committed social documentary photographer and one as an Abstract Expressionist. He did well in both lives, but it is in the latter involvement alongside artists such as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and other American Abstract Expressionists, that his greatest impact is felt. He did with light and a camera what the others did with canvas, brushes and paint, and although the processes were very different the results were remarkably the same.
This exhibition focuses on how Siskind made the journey from Socialist Realism, as a member of the Photo-League and organizer of the seminal Harlem Document to the very core of the first, and perhaps most significant post WWII American art movement - Abstract Expressionism. The transition, when viewed from its poles seems extreme, but the closer you get to the very moments of change in Siskind's work, the more gradual and natural the changes appear...resembling an evolution that seemed almost inevitable once it began.
[Image: Aaron Siskind "Chicago 32" 10 1/4 x 13 in.]
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Schedule
from January 21, 2010 to February 27, 2010