Events
Tour
American Pastoral
Thursday, March 5, 2020, 6:30pm
Gagosian, Britannia Street, London
Join Gagosian for a tour of the group exhibition American Pastoral. The show juxtaposes modern and contemporary works with historical American landscapes ranging from Albert Bierstadt’s depiction of the sublime in Sunset over the River (1877) to Edward Hopper’s tranquil seaside scene, Gloucester Harbor (1926). Gagosian’s Alice Godwin will focus on a select grouping of exhibited works that seek to challenge the idealized vision of the American Dream that has long been a rich topic of inquiry for artists in the United States. To attend the free event, RSVP to londontours@gagosian.com. Space is limited.
Installation view, American Pastoral, Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, January 23–March 14, 2020. Artwork, left to right: © Theaster Gates, © Adam McEwen, Thomas Moran, © Richard Prince, © Banks Violette, © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Lucy Dawkins
Exhibition
The Extreme Present
Opening reception: Tuesday, December 3, 5–8pm
December 4–8, 2019
Moore Building, Miami
Gagosian is pleased to announce The Extreme Present, the fifth in a series of annual exhibitions at the Moore Building in the Miami Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach, presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch. The Extreme Present will explore artists’ reactions to the conditions of our accelerating and increasingly complex world. The title is inspired by The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, a book by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, published in 2015. Their provocative thesis addresses the rapidly evolving digital era, half a century after Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking study on technology’s influence on culture, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, in which he coined the phrase “the medium is the message.” Works in this exhibition explore concepts of media, communication, togetherness, and isolation.
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The Extreme Present
Visit
Gagosian at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées
Opening reception: Saturday, October 12, 6:30–8pm
October 12–20, 2019
Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris
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In celebration of FIAC in Paris, Gagosian is pleased to collaborate with Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées on a two-floor pop-up takeover featuring products related to Gagosian artists. On the first floor, the Coin Culture section will feature catalogues, posters, apparel, and audio productions. The second floor, the Library, will house an additional selection of limited-edition books, publications, and catalogues raisonnés.
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Gagosian at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris, 2019
Announcements
Video
Interview with Roe Ethridge
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
In this video, produced on the occasion of an exhibition of work by artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, Roe Ethridge speaks about his photographs of the of the 2000s. Describing his work as “American by default,” he discusses his subject matter and playing with the idea of the visual fugue, or devising sequences of pictures with multiple voices and counterpoints, as in a score or song.
Installation view, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011: Roe Ethridge, Ampica P3, London, 2011. Artwork © Roe Ethridge
Partnership
Antwaun Sargent
Gagosian is pleased to announce a new partnership with independent critic Antwaun Sargent. Sargent will collaborate with the gallery on a number of upcoming editorial and curatorial projects, including a series of four gallery exhibitions, as well as related features for the Gagosian Quarterly magazine. He will also be contributing to Gagosian’s online initiatives; his forthcoming interview with Roe Ethridge, focusing on conceptual and aesthetic crossovers between fashion and art photography, will be published in conjunction with Ethridge’s Artist Spotlight feature.
Photo: Darius Garvin
Museum Exhibitions
On View
Pictures from Another Wall
The Collection of Huis Marseille at De Pont
Through August 30, 2020
De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
depont.nl
On view in the De Pont Museum’s new wing are roughly one hundred contemporary photographic works from the collection of its sister institution, Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, with an emphasis on acquisitions of the past five years. Work by Roe Ethridge and Andreas Gursky is included.
Roe Ethridge, Annabella for SEPP, 2012 © Roe Ethridge
On View
Roe Ethridge in
New Visions: The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media
Through September 13, 2020
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
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Bringing together recent work by thirty-one international artists, the inaugural edition of the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter’s triennial foregrounds practices that acknowledge the fluctuating and networked condition of contemporary photography and society. Work by Roe Ethridge is included.
Roe Ethridge, Cat with Yarn Ball, 2017 © Roe Ethridge
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Mad World
August 18, 2018–January 14, 2019
Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles
marcianoartfoundation.org
Mad World brought together works from the Marciano collection reflecting the rampant absurdities of contemporary life. Many of the exhibited works address the overwhelming accumulation of information, images, and ideas emanating from our phones, computers, billboards, televisions, and radios. Work by Roe Ethridge, Urs Fischer, and Nate Lowman was included.
Urs Fischer, Green Solace, 16 Handles, Red Solace, 2017 © Urs Fischer. Photo: Mats Nordman
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Picture Fiction
Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography
April 28–December 30, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
mcachicago.org
Picture Fiction considered the conceptual photography of Kenneth Josephson. In addition to presenting four major series made by the Chicago-based artist roughly between 1960 and 1980, the exhibition highlighted links between Josephson and other contemporary artists working in photography, film, and sculpture, including Roe Ethridge, Ed Ruscha, and Jeff Wall.
Roe Ethridge, Beach Scene (Louis Feraud), 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago © Roe Ethridge
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The Poetics of Place
Contemporary Photographs from the Met Collection
December 12, 2016–May 28, 2017
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org
This installation of contemporary photography from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the diverse ways in which contemporary artists have photographed landscape and the built world over the last half century. Work by Roe Ethridge and Sally Mann is included.
Roe Ethridge, New York Water (Osgood Pond), 2001 © Roe Ethridge
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Human Interest
Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection
April 2, 2016–April 2, 2017
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org
Human Interest offers new perspectives on one of art’s oldest genres. Drawn entirely from the museum’s holdings, the more than two hundred works in the exhibition show changing approaches to portraiture from the early 1900s until today. Bringing iconic works together with lesser-known examples and recent acquisitions in a range of mediums, the exhibition unfolds in eleven thematic sections. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Roe Ethridge, Duane Hanson, Mike Kelley, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Stingel, Andy Warhol, and Jonas Wood is included.
Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle, 1952–53, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York © The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Roe Ethridge
Nearest Neighbor
October 7, 2016–March 12, 2017
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
www.contemporaryartscenter.org
Nearest Neighbor is Roe Ethridge’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. This mid-career survey presents more than fifteen years of the artist’s photographs, focusing on his shifts between the realms of commercial, fine art, and personal photography. The show is titled after the photographic term “nearest neighbor,” which refers to the type of sampling used when resizing a digital image. The exhibition also alludes to the personal nature of Ethridge’s work, as he regularly includes his family and friends, as well as himself, as subjects in his photographs.
Roe Ethridge, Nancy with Polaroid, 2003/2006 © Roe Ethridge
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Roe Ethridge
April 21–September 2, 2012
Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
www.leconsortium.fr
In this exhibition, Roe Ethridge melds conceptual photography with commercial work, including outtakes from his own shoots and borrowed images already in circulation in other contexts. With this democratic attitude, Ethridge works to capture the vivid and intimate details of his shifting locales within photography’s classic genres of portrait, landscape, and still life.
Installation view, Roe Ethridge, Consortium Museum, Dijon, France, April 21–September 2, 2012. Artwork © Roe Ethridge. Photo: Hervé Scavone