Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows

December 1 – January 26, 2013 A highly personal yet fictionalized return to what Todd Hido refers to as the “architecture” of his childhood, Excerpts from Silver Meadows is a body of photographs brimming with sensuality and rich narrative threads. Read more

Abelardo Morell: Outside In

November 23, 2013 – January 18, 2014 Abelardo Morell has garnered international praise for photographs that render our everyday world a place of magic and wonder. Citing influences as varied as Ernest Hemmingway and Anselm Kiefer, John Cage and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Søren Kierkegaard and Minor White, he works with an intelligence that is neither glib nor... Read more

William Eggleston: New Dyes

October 13 – November 24, 2013 William Eggleston’s vision is deceptively casual and sometimes brutally direct. The results are often unsettling. Whether he is making portraits, landscapes, interiors, still-life’s or street scenes, he works with unflinching, unsentimental candor. By marrying this sensibility with sophisticated color, Eggleston continuously rediscovers the mundane world. Read more

Tomoko Sawada: SIGN/SKIN

September 26 – November 16, 2013 This work, produced during a residency with The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is both a startling departure from the past and an innovative use of her iconic style honed over the past decade. In 2012 she was invited by the museum to work with a local business and produce a new body of work based on the unique materials, history and processes associated with the host institution, which in this case, was Heinz, a brand synonymous with the city’s legacy. Sawada, who is acclaimed for her humorous and extensive self-portraits, collaborated with Heinz to investigate branding as a form of portraiture. Read more

Camilo José Vergara: By Night in LA

August 17 – September 14, 2013 In the series By Night in LA, Vergara returned to the familiar structures he photographed during the day. The buildings take on new character and significance when daylight’s brightness gives way to darkness. Vergara writes, “it was not the stars that illuminated the LA night, it was electric lights. Contrasting with the day view, light at night often came from the buildings themselves…fences and spikes illuminated from behind and alleys lit with patches of yellow tungsten, white fluorescent, and neon lights.” Read more

Bruce Davidson: Los Angeles 1964/2012

August 17 – September 21, 2013 Bruce Davidson first came to Los Angeles in 1964 on assignment for Esquire magazine. As a young New Yorker in LA, he found himself at odds with what he described as a “cultural desert with acrid air, bumper-to-bumper traffic, tall palms, and seedy Hollywood types.” Nearly 45 years after Davidson first visited Los Angeles, he returned to the city with a vastly different shooting agenda. The crowded and buzzing social landscape of 1964 now serves as a distant backdrop for the quiet integrity of Davidson’s clawed up yuccas, attenuated palms, and parched hillsides. Read more

Christian Patterson: Redheaded Peckerwood

June 29 – August 3, 2013 Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative—the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate’s family, during a killing spree across Nebraska to their point of capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and... Read more

Rinko Kawauchi: Ametsuchi

May 17 – June 22, 2013 In Ametsuchi, Rinko Kawauchi presents the field burning at Aso and the cyclical nature of life as a central motif. Along with this ritual, which has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, Kawauchi also includes images of three other subjects, which emphasize ancient ideas of time, motion, interconnectedness, and the confluence of heaven and earth: the Shiromi Kagura festival (a theatrical Shinto dance ceremony in the Miyazaki Prefecture), scenes of people praying at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, and abstract drawings made with a laser pointer on a starry planetarium ceiling. Read more