Misc.: July 2005 Archives
Many galleries use the summer lull while their high rollin' clients are in the Hamptons to show off a bit of the back catalog, but there are also thesis shows where you might be able catch a rising star before they're called up to the pro leagues. The MFA show at School of Visual Arts has some great work on display. A few of note:
Rachel Papo
Inspired by her own military experience, Papo documents the lives of Israel's female conscripts (seen above, but part of the ASMPNY Image 05 Competition show through 7/24). A nice bridge between Lauren Greenfield's continuing examination of American girls and Rineke Dijkstra's semi-longitudinal portraits of young soldiers (including Israelis.)
Chien-Hsing Jeff Liao
A portrait of Queens, NY, as defined by the route of the 7 train. Great wide-angle work, a bit of Bernice Abbott mixed with Stephen Shore.
Shuli Hallak
Soup to nuts on cargo container shipping. As a group, solid, with at least one mezmerising image (I'll leave it to you to guess which one.)
Through July 30th at Visual Arts Gallery
601 W 26th St, Suite 1502
Meant to comment on this a few days back. Seems Philip-Lorca diCorcia is being sued by one of the unwitting subjects of his photographic projects.
This reminds me a of a large scale Richard Misrach photo I saw last year, a photo of a European beach. There, front and center, was a topless woman lying face up in the foreground of the photo. I remember remarking to my wife "I wonder how that woman would feel if she walked into this gallery and found herself on the wall, spread out on the beach for every jackass to see?"
