By Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy
Photography exhibits open to the public in March are mostly shows held over from February. We are including them here along with newly opened shows, arranged geographically for your planning convenience. Operating galleries and museums are continuing to enforce pandemic restrictions and hours, so we urge you to use the links we provide before venturing forth. For the exhibits we have visited ourselves, we include links to our reviews. We also update listings throughout the month, so feel free to check back.
SOWA – Boston’s South End Arts District
“Secret Pond, 2013” from the series Thirteen Ways, by Robert Knight, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.
Gallery Kayafas – Robert Knight expresses a self-confessed obsession with his daughter in Thirteen Ways (inspired by the Wallace Stevens poem), a longitudinal study that explores her coming of age with a range of sensitive traditional and “alternative” intaglio and cyanotype prints. Such Sweet Thunder, Herb Snitzer’s images of jazz greats like Miles Davis and Nina Simone, traces his six-decade career celebrating the unique energy of performance and the soulful reflections captured backstage. Continuing in the Alcove, Nicole Buchanan’s Strange Fruit documents Black Lives Matter protests and, much to her credit, focuses on symbolic human signals rather than lettered signs. All exhibits have been extended through March 13th, 2021.
For our review of these exhibits, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/robert-knight-thirteen-ways-herb-snitzer-such-sweet-thunder-nicole-buchanan-strange-fruit-audrey-goldstein-shadowtime-at-gallery-kayafas-boston/
For more information about these exhibits, including special programming with the artists, go to: https://www.gallerykayafas.com/current
“Odetta Live at the WGBH Station, Boston, MA 1990/1995” by Herb Snitzer, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.
“Strange Fruit, Untitled #1, June 12, 2020” by Nicole Buchanan, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.
“Futures Tennis in Brigton” 2018 by Pelle Cass, from the series Crowded Fields, courtesy of the artist and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston.
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery – In his solo exhibit Crowded Fields, Pelle Cass compresses the spectacular physical feats of athletes taken from a single vantage point over time into a deep dive on our sense of time and chaos, accompanied by a colorful measure of awe and fun. On view through March 21st, 2021.
For our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/crowded-fields-pelle-cass-at-abigail-ogilvy-gallery-boston/
For more information, go to: https://www.abigailogilvy.com/crowded-fields-pelle-cass
BOSTON PROPER
Feature Image: “Flight” 2019 from the series Life Could Be A Dream by Bill Gore, courtesy of the artist and Griffin Museum of Photography.
Griffin Museum at Lafayette City Center Passageway, Downtown Crossing – The group exhibition Digits: A Parallel Universe promises to channel our otherworldly experience of the past year. Eleven photographers use various digital manipulations to explore “a changing state, time or dimension”: Debe Arlook, Diana Cheren Nygren, Najee Dorsey, Cathy Cone, Miren Etcheverry, Dennis Geller, Bill Gore (Feature Image), Marcy Juran, Deborah Kaplan, Lisa Ryan and Gordon Saperia. On view from March 9 – June 9, 2021, there will be a Virtual Exhibition Reception/Artist Talk on April 25, 2021 at 4:00pm EST. For more information, go to: https://griffinmuseum.org/show/digits-parallel-universe/
“The Gift No. 1” 2020 by Han Feng, courtesy of Robert Klein Gallery, Boston and M97 Gallery, Shanghai.
Robert Klein Gallery – In her inaugural photography exhibit, The Gift, New York and Shanghai-based artist and designer Han Feng presents elegant still-life assemblages of stones, rocks, sculptures, vases and antiques from her personal collection with locally-sourced produce near her NY studio. Feng’s international fusion of ingredients in often precarious compositions blend uncertainty with a dash of fun. On view through March 13th, 2021 by appointment only. For information, go to: https://www.robertkleingallery.com/the-gift
“Glassware Still Life #1, 2019” © Abelardo Morrell, courtesy of Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston.
Krakow Witkin Gallery – In his new body of work, Vessels, Abelardo Morrell explores a new kind of still-life. Utilizing both single frame capture and multiple exposures of various groupings and regroupings of vessels combined into one picture, he creates “little theaters where fabulous things may happen.” And they do, which is why we suggest you visit this online exhibit, for the pure, mind-expanding pleasure of it. On view through March 17th, 2021. Go to: https://www.krakowwitkingallery.com/exhibitions/abelardo-morell-vessels/
Elsa Dorfman, Me and My Camera, 1986. Dye diffusion photograph (Polaroid print). Gift of Elsa Dorfman in Honor of Harvey A. Silverglate. © Elsa Dorfman, 2013, all rights reserved (courtesy of MFA, Boston).
MFA, Boston – Elsa Dorfman: Me and My Camera highlights a selection of 20″x 24″ Polaroid self-portraits by the famed Cambridge portrait photographer, as well as a group of smaller B&W images from her landmark 1974 photobook Elsa’s Housebook: A Woman’s Photojournal. This autobiographical chronicle of Dorfman’s ebullient, fascinating life has been extended through May 23rd, 2021. For more information, go to: https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/elsa-dorfman-me-and-my-camera
THE BURBS
Robert Frank: The Americans on view at the Addison Gallery of American Art through April 11, 2021. (Installation photograph by Suzanne Révy)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA – The Addison is one of only four museums in the world to own a complete set of the images from Robert Frank’s book, The Americans (published 1958 in Europe, 1959 in the US), on view through April 11th, 2021. An Incomplete History of Photography: 1860’s to 1960’s is on view through February 21st, 2021, as well as photographs in conversation with works from the gallery’s archives in the multi-media exhibit Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art 1850-1950, on view FOR ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS through March 7th, 2021. For information about these exhibits, the Museum’s restricted public hours and their pandemic rules and precautions, go to: https://addison.andover.edu/Pages/default.aspx
From the series Luxuria by Tara Sellios, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.
Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA – Three Strong Visual Voices, curated by gallerist Arlette Kayafas, features photographs by Caleb Cole, Kevin Bennett Moore and Tara Sellios (above). Caleb Cole’s series Traces, “explores what it means to be seen, to be vulnerable, and speaks to access and interest in queer and trans bodies, gendered notions of desire, and the elements of ourselves that we hide from view.” Kevin Bennett Moore’s images are “inspired by films of the 1950s and ‘60s and societal constructs of gender. The work is an exploration on the formation of character, narrative, and identity.” Tara Sellios’ series Luxuria “elegantly articulates the totality of existence, focusing heavily life’s underlying instinctive, carnal nature in the face of fragility and impermanence.” The exhibit will be on view in the Center’s Beacon Street Gallery through April 2nd, 2021. For more information, go to: https://brooklineartscenter.com
From the series Average Subject/Medium Distance by Andy Mattern, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
From the series Euclidean Dreams by Patricia A. Bender, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA – Get out your rulers and protractors to take full measure of Andy Mattern’s Average Subject/Medium Distance, his studies of Kodak’s geometric guides to photography (above). Likewise, Patricia A. Bender’s Euclidean Dreams considers the emotional resonance of peering at simple circles and lines she renders in photograms and cliché verre prints (above). Additionally, the Griffin presents the winner of the John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Award, Tavon Taylor (below) whose project, The Last Rose of Summer explores the dynamics of self and family history. The Mattern and Bender exhibitions are on view through March 26th, 2021. Taylor’s exhibition will be on view through May 23rd, 2021. For information and to make a reservation go to: https://griffinmuseum.org
From the series The Last Rose of Summer by Tavon Taylor, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
ROAD TRIP!
“Gracie Lemonata with Lemon” from the series The Good Dishes by JP Terlizzi courtesy of the artist and Sohn Fine Art, Lenox, MA.
Sohn Fine Art, Lenox, Massachusetts – The gallery presents a juried show “Perspective” that wanders between landscape, still life, the figure and abstraction in enticing and lush hues from photographers Richard Alan Cohen, Marcy Juran, Ana Leal, Ralph Mercer, Bruce Panock, Julia Smith and JP Terlizzi. A reception is planned for Saturday April 10th, and the exhibition will be on view through May 3rd, 2021. For more information: https://www.sohnfineart.com
From Above and On the Ground by Neal Rantoul, courtesy of the artist and Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Tisbury, MA.
Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Tisbury, MA – In his solo show Above and On the Ground, Neal Rantoul’s large format B&W landscape photographs from the 1980’s and ’90’s trace the island’s rapid development while his recent sweeping and immersive aerial color photographs capture the essence of its natural splendor with graphic beauty. On view through April 25th, 2021. For information, go to: https://mvmuseum.org
Selections from the series Living with the Enemy by Donna Ferrato, courtesy of the artist and the Newport Art Museum.
Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island – Selections from Donna Ferrato’s seminal book, Living with the Enemy, which probes the challenges women face under the threat of domestic violence and the repercussions of breaking free. Ferrato’s decades-long advocacy has resulted in funding for shelters and education and this exhibition features selections that have been donated to the museum’s permanent collection. On view through June 6th 2021. For more information: https://newportartmuseum.org
“Flow #7” by Jane Yudelman, courtesy of the artist and Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine.
Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine – The essence of natural formations is expressed in Abstract Nature, a group show curated by Bruce Brown. Five photographers manipulate their images in ways that invite viewers to consider the natural world differently: Carl Austin Hyatt, Carol Eisenberg, CE Morse, Jane Yudelman (above) and John Woodruff. On view through April 24th, 2021. For more information, go to: https://www.covestreetarts.com/exhibitions-1/current-exhibition-abstractnature
CALL FOR ENTRIES
“Trees by a Vernal Pool” from the series A Murmur in the Trees by Suzanne Révy, courtesy of the artist.
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts (RICPA), Providence, R.I. – Juried by Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy, (yes! that is us!) A New Leaf will be a group show exhibition from May 20th – June 11th, 2021.
As springtime draws near and more light fills our days, we invite you to submit images that represent “A New Leaf.” We welcome a spectrum of literal and symbolic expressions. As nature reawakens, a new political administration gets underway and a dreadful pandemic comes under control, show us your idea of a world renewed.
Deadline for Entries: March 20th, 2021
For information, go to: https://www.riphotocenter.org/a-new-leaf-call-for-entries-with-elin-spring-suzanne-revy/
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