Roe Ethridge “American Polychronic”

Andrew Kreps Gallery

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at 394 Broadway

Andrew Kreps Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Roe Ethridge at the gallery’s 394 Broadway location. AMERICAN POLYCHRONIC is one of two concurrent exhibitions in New York that coincide with the release Ethridge’s monograph of the same title, the first publication to document over two decades of the artist’s practice.

In his works, Roe Ethridge maneuvers between private to public life, and additionally, between vernaculars of commercial studio photography, composed still life, and candid cell phone imagery. Through this process, Initially divergent subjects work in tandem to create a visual understanding or tenor across one another, reflecting our own impulse to build meaning through a continual aggregation of images. A tension between artifice and authenticity sits at the core of Ethridge’s practice, as he adopts photography’s traditional role as society’s mirror, while simultaneously upending this through a mediation of the medium’s ever shifting relationship to truth. However, despite pointed insertions and references, Ethridge’s works refuse to coalesce into a prescribed narrative, instead forming an open-ended reflection on nostalgia, sincerity, and desire.

AMERICAN POLYCHRONIC is Roe Ethridge’s tenth exhibition with Andrew Kreps Gallery. Ethridge’s work was recently included in Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2022. In addition, he participated in The Triennial for Photography and New Media, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway, 2020. From 2016 to 2017, the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, hosted the first comprehensive survey of Ethridge’s work in the United States, titled Roe Ethridge: Nearest Neighbor. Other solo exhibitions include: Shelter Island, FOAM, Amsterdam, 2016, Le Consortium, Dijon, France, 2012, traveled to Museum Leuven, Belgium, 2012. His work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, SFMoMA, San Francisco, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Tate Modern, London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.