 Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation features new and recent black-and-white photographs by Mark Armijo McKnight (b. 1984, Los Angeles, California; lives in New York, New York) and focuses on his ongoing body of work, “Decreation.” The concept, originated by the French philosopher, activist, and mystic Simone Weil (1909–1943), describes an intentional undoing of the self, a process Armijo McKnight explores in images of bodies and landscapes in intermediate states, such as anonymous nude figure… more PostponedIn Martine Gutierrez’s Supremacy a brunette model lies on a saccharine pink shaggy rug—her “broken doll” pose recalls Tyra Banks’s early-aughts show America’s Next Top Model. With mouth open in an apparent state of rapture, the model is played by LGBTQ rights activist and artist Martine Gutierrez (b. 1989), in an image that she also conceived, produced, and photographed. Blonde Barbie-like dolls are scattered across her body, echoing her lingerie and pose. Closer inspection reveals, … more Time Management Techniques showcases photography by artists who examined the medium’s relationship to time between 1968 and 2019. Drawn from the Whitney’s permanent collection, the exhibition features many recent acquisitions alongside works that have never before been exhibited. Each of the artists, despite employing vastly different techniques, aesthetics, and conceptual frameworks, works against the immediacy often associated with photography to reflect a passage of time that is slowed do… morePhotographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001 Beginning in the late 1970s, David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992) created a body of work that spanned photography, painting, music, film, sculpture, writing, and activism. Largely self-taught, he came to prominence in New York in the 1980s, a period marked by creative energy, financial precariousness, and profound cultural changes. Intersecting movements—graffiti, new and no wave music, conceptual photography, performance, and neo-expressionist painting—made New York a laboratory for … morePhotographs by Harold Edgerton from the Whitney's Collection The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy-eighth installment of the longest-running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities, and polarizing politics. Throughout the exhibition, artists challenge us to consider how these realities affect our senses of self and community. The Biennial features sixty-three individuals and collectives whose work takes a wide variety of forms, from painting and installation to activism and video-game design. morePortraits from the Whitney’s Collection Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 focuses on the ways in which artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema—screen, projection, darkness—to create new experiences of the moving image. The exhibition will fill the Museum’s 18,000-square-foot fifth-floor galleries, and will include a film series in the third-floor theater.
The exhibition’s title refers to the science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft’s alternate fictional dimensi… more Blue Portrait (Nokia N82) by photographer Torbjørn Rødland is the fourth work to be featured as part of a series of public art installations by key American artists on the facade of 95 Horatio Street, across from the Museum’s building and the southern entrance to the High Line. Past installations of the series, which was initiated by the Whitney in partnership with TF Cornerstone and High Line Art, have showcased works by Alex Katz (2014); Michele Abeles (2015), and Njid… more Danny Lyon: Message to the Future is the first comprehensive retrospective of the career of Danny Lyon (b. 1942) to be presented in twenty-five years. The exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and will premiere at the Whitney in June 2016 before traveling to San Francisco.
The exhibition assembles approximately 175 photographs and related films and ephemera to highlight Lyon’s concern with social and political issues and the welfare of individuals considered by … moreEighteen digital videos synchronized and presented on eighteen NEC screensLee Friedlander: America By Car
September 4 – November 28, 2010
Sondra Gilman Gallery/Howard and Jean Lipman Gallery
Curated by Elisabeth Sussman
Driving across most of the country's fifty states in an ordinary rental car, master photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield, and the side windows as picture frames within which to record reflections of this country's eccentricities and obsession… moreStieglitz's famous photographic portrait series of O'KeeffeChamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, WarholThree installations, two filmsThe Aberrant Architectures of Diller + ScofidioPhotographs by Ryan McGinleyThe American premiere of Simpson’s new film installation, 31, commissioned for the exhibition Documenta XI.
In ‘31’, the camera tracks a month in the life of an unknown woman, seen in a grid of thirty-one small projections. Close observance of these interlocking narratives reveals that she is not always where we expect her to be. moreThis exhbition comprises new photographic works by Simpson that continue her examination of silhouetted profiles contextualized by titles of films, paintings, and music drawn from the 1800s to the 1970s. more |
