Robert Adams "On Any Given Day in Spring & Light Balances"
Matthew Marks Gallery 526 W 22nd St.
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Matthew Marks presents Robert Adams: On Any Given Day in Spring & Light Balances, the next exhibition in his gallery at 526 West 22nd Street.
The exhibition consists of two new series of photographs.
Light Balances is the title of a group of 59 photographs made between 2005 and 2011 in a protected forest around the Columbia River estuary near the town of Astoria, Oregon where Adams has lived since 1997. These dense black and white images capture the diverse qualities of light as filtered through and onto the leaves, trunks, grass, and dirt of the uncontaminated forest.
The 30 photographs in On Any Given Day in Spring depict flocks of seabirds on the North Beach Peninsula in Washington State. They were made between 2007 and 2009 and capture the relationship between the birds, the ocean, and the sky. Adams writes of his chance encounters with the birds, “There is no certainty, on any given day in spring, that the birds will be there.”
Two new artist’s books reproducing the photographs in On Any Given Day in Spring and Light Balances will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Robert Adams: On Any Given Day in Spring & Light Balances is on view concurrently with the artist’s, The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut through October 28, 2012, which includes over 300 photographs made over four decades. After Yale, this exhibition, which has already been seen at museums in Vancouver, Denver, and Los Angeles, travels on to institutions in Spain, Germany, France, and Switzerland.
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from September 07, 2012 to November 03, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-09-06 from 18:00 to 20:00
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“There’s a tension to the beauty in Adams photographs. And at the end of the show one could conclude that perhaps he has found the simple pleasure in looking, the restful ease of what surrounds him. He and his work stay, guideposts into “a landscape into which all fragments, no matter how imperfect, fit perfectly.” (Robert Adams)” Leanne Goebel