Gallery selection: photographs by Jo Ann Callis and Jan Groover at Galerie Miranda
To see this week: the works of two little-known American pioneers of color photography in the 1970s.
“Untitled”, from Early Color portfolio (1976), by Jo Ann Callis.
On view at the Miranda Gallery, the works of two little-known American women of the 1970s. Two pioneers of color photography whose singular work bears little resemblance to those of famous colorists, from William Eggleston to Stephen Shore, who had translated their time, its charm and its consumerist excesses in vibrant colors. Both have rather turned their camera towards the domestic interior, without their work being able to be reduced to a comment on the confinement of housewives. Jan Groover (1943-2012), presented in beautiful vintage prints, has made his kitchen the place of sophisticated and very pictorial stagings, yet made with the means at hand: sink, cutlery, plants... transcended trivial objects in geometric shapes put to the service of still lifes of a new kind. Jo Ann Callis (born in 1940) created her “Early Color” series while juggling her studies, her divorce, her young children. She makes her interiors a theater in pastel colors, deceptively soft, which hosts strange and ambiguous stagings where pleasure, discomfort and fantasies mingle.
