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February 23, 2006- March 25, 2006
Tom Hunter
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 W 22nd StThe first photographer to be given a solo exhibition at The National Gallery, London, British artist Tom Hunter here presents a series of carefully staged photographic tableaux reenacting odd incidents or violent crimes reported in his local paper, the Hackney Gazette. With this body of work, Hunter maintains his practice of creating photographs, which comment on the contemporary social realities of his immediate community viewed through an art historical lens. Hunter is known for his compositions and lighting based on historical paintings. Whereas his earlier series Persons Unknown and Life and Death in Hackney drew on Vermeer and the Pre-Raphaelites respectively, Living in Hell and Other Stories references the paintings of Gauguin, the Le Nain Brothers, Constable and Ingres.
Hunter’s solo exhibition, Living in Hell and Other Stories, accompanied by an eightypage catalog, is currently on view at The National Gallery, London through March 12, 2006. The Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C., will present a solo exhibition in July 2006 as part of their Vantage Point series. Born in England in 1965, Hunter received his MFA from the Royal College of Art. In 1998, he won the John Kobal Award from the National Portrait Gallery. Hunter’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Frans Hals Museum, the Royal Academy, London and the Museum Folkwang, Essen. Hunter’s work has been acquired by major collections including the Hirshhorn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Saatchi Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Art Reviews of Living in Hell and Other Stories
| New York Times March 17, 2006 | Roberta Smith | "Tom Hunter doesn't make art as much as clichés, but he bears the distinction of being the first photographer given a solo show at the hallowed shrine to painting that is the National Gallery in London...." |
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