SOUTHFIRST 60 N6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211 www.southfirst.org
SOUTHFIRST
gallery is proud to present MYSTIC RIVER, a group show curated by Noah
Sheldon. The exhibition was inspired by the Stephen Shore photograph Merced
River and is on
view from March 10 Ð April 23.
In
2005 Noah Sheldon and Roger White interviewed the photographer Stephen Shore
for The Brooklyn Rail. The interview led Sheldon to imagine an exhibition based
on the feeling of ShoreÕs work.
His Merced River photograph of August 13, 1979, shows a group of people
camped out on a riverbank in Yosemite National Park. This image is the
touchstone for a group show of drawings, sculptural installations, paintings,
quilted fabric, and works on paper loosely united by the feeling they evoke and
their link to ShoreÕs vision of everyday, ecstatic landscape.
The
smallest piece in the show is video shot in extreme close-up across the surface
of ShoreÕs image. As if we are reading the photograph, we scan its surface in
slow horizontal sweeps. Accompanying commissioned soundtracks lend different
emotional valiances to the videoÕs quasi-documentary discovery of tiny
photographic moments.
With work
by Dike Blair, Peter Coffin, Ian Hundley, Martha Friedman, Matt Keegan, Heather
Rowe, Stephen Shore, Paul Wagner, Roger White, a catalogue designed by Paul
Wagner, and sound pieces by Warren Ng & Casey Farnum, Koen Holtkamp, Roger
White, Christine Edwards & Emily Manzo, and David Griffin.
SOUTHFIRST is located on 60 N6th Street in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Gallery hours: Fri, Sat & Sun 1-6 PM and by
appointment. Subway: L train to Bedford Avenue. For more information, please
contact Southfirst at 718 599 4884 or info@southfirst.org.
S O U T H F I R S T
60 N6th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
phone/fax 718 599 4884
www.southfirst.org