Laura Letinsky
17 Sep - 05 Nov 2010
© Laura Letinsky
Untitled #9, 2009
Archival pigment print on Hahnernuhle paper
42 1/2 x 49 inches, framed
Untitled #9, 2009
Archival pigment print on Hahnernuhle paper
42 1/2 x 49 inches, framed
LAURA LETINSKY
“To Peach”
September 17 - November 5, 2010
Reception for the artist, Friday, September 17, 2010, 5:00 to 7:00 PM
The Donald Young Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photography by Laura Letinsky. Exploring the subject of still life in her documents of the everyday, Letinsky engages in a distinctive commentary upon society and existence. The emotion and psychology of Letinsky’s subjects are wrought through an elegantly controlled perspective. Contrasting light and subject matter visually inform the formal and spatial construction of her photographs. Theobjects and space belie literal description; instead she utilizes photography’s transformative quality to change what is typically overlooked into something splendid in its resilience.
To Peach includes photographs from four separate series of work; “Fall,” “The Dog and the Wolf,” “To Say It Isn’t So” and “Somewhere, Somewhere.” The formal and psychological connotations of To Peach, to double, to divide, making two from one, or a half from a whole refers in this show to the structure as well as the subjects of the photographs, but more, to a quality inherent to photography itself. To Peach also suggests fecundity through abundance of light and a viscerality. Letinsky’s interiors and still life images examine the precarious relationships between ripeness and decay, delicacy and awkwardness, control and haphazardness, waste and plentitude. These dichotomies are made formally and materially apparent through Letinsky’s scenes that are a kind of seeing which can only happen photographically. Born in Canada in 1962, Letinsky received her MFA from Yale University in1991 and was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000.
Letinsky’s work is held in the collections of the Stuttgart Museum, Germany, The Getty Museum, LA, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Amon Carter Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. She has exhibited internationally most recently inRome, London and Bochum, Germany. This past summer, Letinsky was anArtist in Residence at Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland and next year, will be at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China. A survey of her work is being organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art for 2011, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2012 and will travel. Laura Letinsky iscurrently a Professor at the University of Chicago.
The reception is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday throughFriday, 9:30 to 5:30 and Saturday, 11:00 to 5:30. If you would like more information, please contact Emily Letourneau or Robyn Farrell Roulo at312.322.3600.
“To Peach”
September 17 - November 5, 2010
Reception for the artist, Friday, September 17, 2010, 5:00 to 7:00 PM
The Donald Young Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photography by Laura Letinsky. Exploring the subject of still life in her documents of the everyday, Letinsky engages in a distinctive commentary upon society and existence. The emotion and psychology of Letinsky’s subjects are wrought through an elegantly controlled perspective. Contrasting light and subject matter visually inform the formal and spatial construction of her photographs. Theobjects and space belie literal description; instead she utilizes photography’s transformative quality to change what is typically overlooked into something splendid in its resilience.
To Peach includes photographs from four separate series of work; “Fall,” “The Dog and the Wolf,” “To Say It Isn’t So” and “Somewhere, Somewhere.” The formal and psychological connotations of To Peach, to double, to divide, making two from one, or a half from a whole refers in this show to the structure as well as the subjects of the photographs, but more, to a quality inherent to photography itself. To Peach also suggests fecundity through abundance of light and a viscerality. Letinsky’s interiors and still life images examine the precarious relationships between ripeness and decay, delicacy and awkwardness, control and haphazardness, waste and plentitude. These dichotomies are made formally and materially apparent through Letinsky’s scenes that are a kind of seeing which can only happen photographically. Born in Canada in 1962, Letinsky received her MFA from Yale University in1991 and was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000.
Letinsky’s work is held in the collections of the Stuttgart Museum, Germany, The Getty Museum, LA, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Amon Carter Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. She has exhibited internationally most recently inRome, London and Bochum, Germany. This past summer, Letinsky was anArtist in Residence at Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland and next year, will be at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China. A survey of her work is being organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art for 2011, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2012 and will travel. Laura Letinsky iscurrently a Professor at the University of Chicago.
The reception is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday throughFriday, 9:30 to 5:30 and Saturday, 11:00 to 5:30. If you would like more information, please contact Emily Letourneau or Robyn Farrell Roulo at312.322.3600.