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4/2/2010

Two exhibitions

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Robert Adams
Summer Nights, Walking

Matthew Marks Gallery is pleased to announce Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking, the next exhibition at 523 West 24th Street. The exhibition consists of 50 photographs of nocturnal landscapes Robert Adams made between 1976 and 1982 near his home in Longmont, Colorado, on the eastern ridge of the Rocky Mountains.

Robert Adams leads the viewer outwards in these photographs from the populated center of the suburban town towards the rustic plain and distant Rocky Mountains. During his evening perambulations the photographer captured trees and houses, mountains and streets, fields and sidewalks between dusk and approaching dark. Lit by the setting sun, street lamps, and moonlight, his compositions are never conventionally beautiful. They vacillate between quiet foreboding and tranquil domesticity and, as the photographer has expressed in his own writing, attempt to capture the timelessness and peace of warm summer evenings.

Robert Adams first showed photographs from this series in 1985. Recently, he said of editing his night pictures that "when I have looked again at the photographs that I might have chosen but did not, it has seemed to me that if I had included a wider variety, the result would have been, though less harmonious, more convincing, closer to our actual experience of wonder, anxiety and stillness." The expanded group of images in this exhibition is at times unsettling, conveying the menacing and occasionally hostile attitudes of suspicious onlookers the photographer encountered while walking and evoking a sense of unease that is often part of our nighttime experience.

Robert Adams (b. 1937) has been photographing the American landscape for almost 50 years. In 1989 the Philadelphia Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Adams's work, and in 1997 his photographs were included in Documenta X. The Yale University Art Gallery, which holds Adams's complete body of work to date, has organized a new retrospective exhibition of his work that opens at the Vancouver Art Gallery in September of this year before traveling to several international venues. Adams was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1994 and received the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in 2009.

This exhibition celebrates the publication of Summer Nights, Walking, co-published by Aperture and the Yale University Art Gallery, a revised and updated version of the 1985 book, Summer Nights.

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Ken Price

Matthew Marks Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new sculpture by Ken Price at 522 West 22nd Street. The exhibition comprises twelve sculptures, all made in 2009.

In the main gallery, Price will show three large-scale sculptures that continue the expansion of his practice into more monumental sizes, which he began working on shortly after his last exhibition at the gallery in 2006, in which he debuted his first large-scale piece.

Three additional galleries will be installed with nine smaller sculptures. All of the works, large and small, have meticulously hand-finished surfaces, slowly built up over time with as many as twenty layers of paint, which are then sanded to a satin polish.

The rich colors and painstakingly worked surfaces of Ken Price's sculptures have always been integral to his spectacular and inventive forms. In the newest pieces, the sensual shapes seem more alive then ever as they twist up and around or suggestively slump against one another.

Ken Price was born in Los Angeles in 1935. In 1959 he returned to Los Angeles after studying on the East Coast and quickly became part of the emerging Los Angeles art community that had grown around the Ferus Gallery, where he had his first one-person show in 1960. He has exhibited his work regularly since that time, including one-person museum exhibitions at the Menil Collection, Houston; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and, most recently, the Chinati Foundation, Marfa. His work is the subject of an upcoming retrospective exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Price now lives and works in New Mexico.


Image: Robert Adams, Longmont, Colorado, 1980. Gelatin-silver print Image: 14 1/2 x 15 inches; 37 x 38 cm Sheet: 20 x 16 inches; 51 x 41 cm

Opening Friday, February 5th, 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.

For further information, please contact Jeffrey Peabody at (212) 243-0200, or email jeffrey@matthewmarks.com.

Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 West 24th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 to 6:00 pm.

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