Victor Schrager "The White Room"

Edwynn Houk Gallery

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A master of still-life photography for more than 30 years, Victor Schrager embraces modernism while rethinking its components to create something new. Building on ideas first explored in Schrager’s 2006 study of books, "Composition as Explanation," the artist’s newest series, "The White Room," employs objects lifted from everyday experience and transforms them into studies of light, space, and shadow. Schrager writes, “The objects are as necessary and irrelevant as Morandi’s pitchers, Stieglitz’ clouds, Cezanne’s fruit, Weston’s peppers, or Penn’s frozen food. The real purpose in making these pictures is addressing the box of space that sits in front of me, and seeing if it is once again possible to pull a compelling picture out of it.” Schrager places little emphasis on subject matter, but rather on the objects’ sublime interaction within the space of the picture plane.

[Image: Victor Schrager "Untitled #31" (2008]

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from December 11, 2008 to January 24, 2009

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Victor Schrager

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