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Email PageA Shared History
May 3, 2007- July 13, 2007
Stuart O’Sullivan
Daniel Cooney Fine Art
511 W 25th StDaniel Cooney Fine Art is pleased to announce our second solo exhibition by Stuart O’Sullivan, A Shared History. The series of images were made at homes in Pennsylvania and Vermont belonging to the family of O’Sullivan’s wife. While A Shared History primarily explores the relationship of his wife and her grandmother it speaks volumes of a long family history and the future to come.
O’Sullivan continues to make images of interiors and landscapes that become portraits of their inhabitants. In this case he photographs the homes of his in-laws and reveals a complex story that goes back to the earliest European settlers in America and further back to Europe. It is a story of relationships and marriages changing history and a conflicted family dynamic. In his photographs are the family’s belongings and property that reveal privilege, absence and connections to a distant past. Furthermore, the youth and old age of one generation and the youth of a younger generation are documented in O’Sullivan’s noted style of “measured but unapologetic affection”.
The show consists of ten large scale images selected from the larger body of work. The entire series of images are available for viewing at the gallery and will be published in O’Sullivan’s second monograph by Nazraeli Press in early 2008. The work can also be viewed in advance of the exhibition.
O’Sullivan graduated from the Cape Technikon School of Design in South Africa and the General Studies Program at the International Center of Photography, New York. He has recently exhibited at the Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, The Westport Art Center, Westport, CT and Foley Gallery, NYC. His work is in several important private and corporate collections including the prestigious Deutsche Bank Collection. His work has been reproduced and reviewed in Art on Paper, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, BOMB, The New York Art World, the Globalist and the New York Sun.
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