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Windows and Mirrors
Merry Alpern, Diane Arbus, Andrew Bush, Roz Chast, Todd Hido, Bill Jacobson, Sarah Anne Johnson, Maira Kalman, Shai Kremer, Birgitta Lund, Didier Massard, Vik Muniz, Orit Raff, Hiroshi Sugimoto
March 5 - April 11, 2009

Windows and Mirrors (a nod to Szarkowski's famed 1978 MoMA exhibition) combines photography and works on paper which represent the subjective and objective view of the world seen through sixteen works by as many artists.

Todd Hido photographs a snowy street scene through the streaked windshield wipers of a car while Birgitta Lund captures the blurred forest through the window of a moving train. Bill Jacobson’s self portrait is made opaque through his out of focus technique, resulting in an image that suggests a glimpse into one's own past. Didier Massard's photographs of his own life-like models manipulate the viewer's perception of reality whereas Sarah Anne Johnson's toy-like sculpted figures are created to be photographed yet not meant to deceive.

While some abstract reality, others focus on objective documentation. Shai Kremer's, View of a Minefield, depicts what appears to be an untouched landscape seen through a blown-out window. In Maira Kalman's playful gouache on paper, two taxidermy rabbits seem to be dancing with their mirrored selves. Hiroshi Sugimoto's darkened theater lit solely by the screen through an exposure the length of the film illuminates the room and suggests time passing while emphasizing the isolation of the scene. The film screen serves as a window or mirror and resurrects the screen to a new life.

WINDOWS AND MIRRORS
MARCH 5- APRIL 11, 2009

BILL JACOBSON
New Year’s Day #4550, 2002
chromogenic print mounted on sintra and museum board
36 x 30”
edition of 9

TODD HIDO
Untitled #2431, 2005
chromogenic print mounted on aluminum
20 x 24”
ap 3/3 from an edition of 10

BIRGITTA LUND
In Transit (Forest, Denmark), 2005
chromog enic print mounted on museum board
24 x 18”
edition of 8

MERRY ALPERN
#3 from Window Series, 1994
gelatin silver print
20 x 16”
edition 10/30

DIANE ARBUS
Female impersonator's dressing room, NYC, 1958
Printed in 1980 by Neil Selkirk
gelatin silver print
Stamped "A Diane Arbus photograph", signed, titled,
dated, numbered 6/75 in ink by Doon Arbus, and
copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps verso
8 5/8 x 5 3/4”

SARAH ANNE JOHNSON
Redheads (diptych), 2005
chromogenic prints mounted on museum board
37 x 23” each
edition of 10
$7000

West Wall
ORIT RAFF
Untitled, 1988
chromogenic print
24 x 20”
edition of 8

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
U.A. Walker, New York, 1978
photogravure, signed in pencil on the border
edition of 1000
published by Eyestorm and Sonnabend
Sundell Editions, 2000

SHAI KREMER
View of a minefield, abandoned Syrian Base,
Golan Heights 2007
chromogenic print
22 x 28”
edition of 10

ROZ CHAST
This is a Drawing of Me Looking at Me, 2007
watercolor and ink on paper
8 1/2 x 7”

North wall
MAIRA KALMAN
Rabbits, 2006
gouache on paper
7 1/2 x 9 1/2”

SARAH ANNE JOHNSON
Kia and the Moon (diptych), 2005
chromogenic prints
16 x 16”

VIK MUNIZ
Youth, Gasper, 1998
from Pictures of Soil
gelatin silver print
24 x 20”
ap 2/5

DIDIER MASSARD
The Gate, 1997
chromogenic print
47 x 37”
edition of 10

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Bill Jacobson

Todd Hido

Birgitta Lund

Merry Alpern

©Diane Arbus

Sarah Anne Johnson

Orit Raff

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Shai Kremer

Roz Chast

Maira Kalman