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7/11/2012

Leon Levinstein/Marc Asnin

Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

LEON LEVINSTEIN

Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to present Leon Levinstein, a survey featuring over 50 vintage black and white prints by the celebrated master of street photography. Leon Levinstein (1910-1988) is best known for his candid, unsentimental, often acerbic figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods -- from Times Square, to the Lower East Side, to Coney Island. This exhibition will feature images that reflect the artist's fearless approach to the medium. Levinstein's graphic virtuosity, his raw gestures and monumental bodies, balance compassion and cruelty as he caresses and skewers his fellow citizens of the streets. This is the first survey of Levinsteins's work since his exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2010.

MARC ASNIN: UNCLE CHARLIE

Steven Kasher Gallery presents Marc Asnin: Uncle Charlie, an unprecedented long-term documentary project that details the life of the artist's uncle and godfather, Charles Henschke. It portrays Charlie's struggle with mental illness, isolation, poverty and familial relationships. Asnin chose to use photography as the means to reconnect with Uncle Charlie. The result is a journey that became an

obsession to confront, examine, and understand disturbing truths about his uncle and family. The exhibition will feature over 25 black and white photographs and will launch the book Uncle Charlie by Marc Asnin (Contrasto, 2012).

"There are few portraits in recent American photography more intimate or more remarkable than Marc Asnin's Uncle Charlie series. It is, like Asnin, frank, tough, but suffused with love and awe." Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic, The New York Times

Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23 Street, New York

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00am - 6:00pm
Free Admission

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