"Inspired" Exhibition
Steven Kasher Gallery
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The photographs in Inspired reflect a wide range of photographic genres, generations and styles. The artists apply diverse approaches: appropriation, re-creation, homage, parody, and pastiche. Eric Kroll acknowledges Man Ray’s early use of masked figures in fashion and in turn disguises his models with Man Ray monographs. Megan Boody’s take on Ruth Orkin’s American girl in Florence and Dan Tague’s Loch Ness monster are both humorous and eerie. Other pieces allude to acclaimed past series. Alinka Echeverria’s Pilgrims cites Avedon’s American West; while Mickalene Thomas’s Le Dejeuner sur I'Herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires references the body of work of Seydou Keïta. Terence Koh parodies Marcel Duchamp’s feminine alter ego Rrose Sélavy.
This exhibition is both a celebration of the influence of the iconic work, a testimony to the extraordinary image in our era of image glut. The show is also replete with generational rebellion and revenge. We see powerful transformations of the motifs, gestures, and techniques of the past into contemporary themes and timely connotations.
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Schedule
from July 14, 2010 to August 13, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-07-14 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Megan Boody, Yandin DeFay, Jen DeNike, Jordan Doner, Sante D'Orazio, Alinka Echeverria, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Greg Friedler, Henny Garfunkel, Ralph Gibson, Josh Gosfield, Tim Hailand, Lyle Ashton Harris, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Lisa Kereszi, Terence Koh, Chase Koopersmith, Eric Kroll, Liz Magic Laser, Erica Lennard, Burton Machen, Patrick McMullan, Leonard Nimoy, Karen Ostrom, Grear Patterson, Alexandra Penney, Anton Perich, Scott Peterman, Len Prince & Jessie Mann, Kathy Rudin, Mark Seliger, David Benjamin Sherry, John Silvis, Dan Tague, Mickalene Thomas, Chris Verene and Cheri Nevers, and Jaimie Warren, Martabel Wasserman et al.