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Chris Burden, The TV Commercials 1973–1977, 1973–77/2000 (still) © 2022 Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

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Objects of Desire
Photography and the Language of Advertising

September 4–December 18, 2022
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.lacma.org

Objects of Desire traces the artistic manipulation of advertising through the works of photo-based artists. Since the 1970s, creative innovations have led to dramatic shifts in the possibilities for photography as artistic expression, and these artists have reworked and exploited the vocabulary and strategies of advertising to challenge the increased commodification of daily life. Through re-photography, appropriation, and simulation, these artists challenge the viewer to determine what exactly these pictures are asking of us. Work by Chris Burden and Roe Ethridge is included.

Chris Burden, The TV Commercials 1973–1977, 1973–77/2000 (still) © 2022 Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Roe Ethridge, Cat with Yarn Ball, 2017 © Roe Ethridge

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Roe Ethridge in
New Visions: The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media

February 21–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

Roe Ethridge, Annabella for SEPP, 2012 © Roe Ethridge

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Pictures from Another Wall
The Collection of Huis Marseille at De Pont

February 15–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

Urs Fischer, Green Solace, 16 Handles, Red Solace, 2017 © Urs Fischer. Photo: Mats Nordman

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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

Roe Ethridge, Beach Scene (Louis Feraud), 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago © Roe Ethridge

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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

Roe Ethridge, New York Water (Osgood Pond), 2001 © 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

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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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 KelleySally MannMan RayBruce NaumanRichard PrinceEd RuschaCindy ShermanRudolf StingelAndy 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

Roe Ethridge, Nancy with Polaroid, 2003/2006 © Roe Ethridge

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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

Installation view, Roe Ethridge, Consortium Museum, Dijon, France, April 21–September 2, 2012. Artwork © Roe Ethridge. Photo: Hervé Scavone

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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