Melissa Ann Pinney: Recent Work
May 3, 2007- June 30, 2007
Reception: May 3, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
511 W 25th St
The
Alan Klotz Gallery presents “
Melissa Ann Pinney: Recent Work”.
Melissa Ann Pinney photographs the suburbs and how they function as a nurturing growth medium, like agar in a Petri dish. There's hardly any irony here in the depiction of the place that Melissa has chosen to sink her roots and raise a family. In a real sense the photographs are about the growth and maturation of her daughter Emma, who we follow through seasons of change in the backyards of plenty...her friends, her father, the air they breathe, and the endearing ways they make a life, and of course the watchful mother's eye through which we see it all. There are rituals, and rites of passage, as well as glimpses into a world, though often prosaic on the surface, which can only be described, at times, and here in the moments of revelation, as magical.
Pinney's gaze is very quiet, but very intense, yet she forces no judgment on you as a viewer. Rather, she shows you relationships that define being...being a young girl who is starting to turn into a young woman in the loamy soil of Evanston, the sands of Maui, and the swimming pools of everywhere in between.
Melissa Ann Pinney received a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship for her photographs of American women and girls. This project became the book, Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls, published in 2003 by the Center for American Places in partnership with Columbia College Chicago.
In addition to the 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship, Pinney received a NEA in 1987 and Illinois Arts Council Grants in 1989 and 1987, among other awards. Ms. Pinney's photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, following her BA in photography from Columbia College Chicago in 1977.
Ms. Pinney has taught at Columbia College Chicago since 1984. She lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband and daughter. Ms. Pinney's photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, DoubleTake, the Chicago Tribune, Ms. and U.S.News and World Report.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show| Location | map | | Address | 511 W 25th St, #701
New York (Chelsea)
NY, 10001
United States | | Phone | 212-741-4764 | | Fax | 212-741-4760 | | Hours | Thu-Sat 12-6 | | | |
| | |
Email Page
