Last week I went to see a screening of Jennifer Baichwal‘s film Manufactured Landscapes at Film Fourm. The film follows Canadian large-format photographer Edward Burynsky as he documents the vast industrialization of China with his view camera. Opening with an eight-minute tracking shot down the aisle of a factory, viewers have a long moment to [...]
I Don’t Want to Get Over You, 2000 and Lutz & Alex Holding Cock, 1992 © Wolfgang Tillmans Before leaving D.C., I was able to make some quick gallery/museum rounds. One of the highlights would have to be the rather large Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The exhibition includes approximately [...]
It has become more and more a common practice for artists to discuss domesticity, ideas of family, and notions of the every day in their work. This semi-private world contains, for each of us, a unique set of scenarios – a varying range of emotional closeness, connection, disconnection, and fantasy, which most of us acknowledge [...]
Quartered Rocky Mountain Elk, Milky Creek, White Cloud Mountains, Idaho, 2004 © Laura McPhee It’s easy to find yourself delightfully lost in the vastness of many of Laura McPhee’s forty large-scale (6′ x 8′) color photographs currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During her two-year stay as an artist-in-residence with The [...]
