On Friday, April 18, Pratt Manhattan Gallery will open two new images exhibitions: Black | Field by Dona Ann McAdams, which mixes black and white images with textual content to encapsulate late twentieth century American life, and AutoWorks & WaterWorks by Abby Robinson, which captures the physique performing video games of probability with the digicam, shifting via gentle and the fluidity of water.
Dona Ann McAdams: Black | Field
Black | Field is an exhibition by award-winning American photographer Dona Ann McAdams, combining 50 years of black and white images along with her personal quick lyric texts. Taken between 1974 and 2024, the photographs doc astonishing moments and folks throughout a long time of American life. These placing historic photos paired with private reflections that learn like prose poems work collectively to convey an unapologetic historical past of the Queer Liberation Motion, the Tradition Wars, and the Efficiency Artwork scene of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties. This present is timed to coincide with the discharge of McAdams’s latest monograph, Black | Field: A Photographic Memoir, revealed by Saint Lucy Books.
Abby Robinson: AutoWorks & WaterWorks
Abby Robinson (1947–2024) developed her AutoWorks sequence for over 30 years, starting in 1971. The sequence communicates the artwork of girls deploying the digicam to debunk fastened gender roles via self-portrait images and presentation. Composed of black and white prints roughly two-by-three in measurement, the pictures from AutoWorks are small and intimate photographs.
Robinson’s WaterWorks sequence grew out of AutoWorks over the previous decade, when she serendipitously took her digicam into the bathe. The usage of shade and considerably bigger prints leads to a distinct temper for the WaterWorks photographs. The photographs are direct, displaying merely a determine and a circumscribed house reworked by a mix of water and lightweight. The exhibition options works from each sequence, which had been chosen by the photographer earlier than her dying in July 2024.
Each exhibitions are on show at Pratt Manhattan Gallery from Friday, April 18, till June 7, 2025, with a public reception on Thursday, April 17, from 6 to 8pm. Pratt Manhattan Gallery is situated at 144 West 14th Avenue in New York Metropolis, open 11am–6pm Monday via Saturday.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery’s program is made potential partly by the New York State Council on the Arts with the assist of the Workplace of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
