In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum
October 1, 2016 through
January 29, 2017
In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum brought together artists Tina Barney, Marion Belanger, Adrien Broom, Kate Cordsen, Peter Daitch, Alida Fish, Ted Hendrickson, Sophie T. Lvoff, James Welling, and Tom Zetterstrom.
The site of the Florence Griswold Museum has been a place of creative inspiration to artists for over a century. The painters of the Lyme Art Colony, who stayed at “Miss Florence’s” boardinghouse beginning in 1899, turned her property and the surrounding landscape into subjects of iconic works of American art. With this history in mind, this select group of photographers was asked to focus their lenses and imagination on the Museum and create work that reacts to the historic site’s landscape, collections, and story. “While motifs of art, history, and landscape emerge in the photographers’ works, the variety of their expressions articulates how multifaceted the discipline of photography is today,” notes Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator at the Florence Griswold Museum. “Visitors will find a range of art, from representational to abstract, from film to video, and from historical to digital processes.”
With their images of the historic Florence Griswold House and the Museum’s landscape and collections the artists in the exhibition In Place produced an extraordinary diverse body of work that resonates with historical allusion, poetic suggestion, poignancy, ironic humor, and genuine affection for the signifcance of this historic site. Collectively, they have given all of us a new way of thinking about the Museum and, more broadly, about the ongoing relationship of certain places to artistic creativity.
Order the exhibition catalogue here.
Sophie T. Lvoff, Sturgeon Moonlight, 2016 (after Florence’s Moonlight, 1905), 2016. Archival Ink Jet Print. Courtesy of the artist.
James Welling, 0549, 2016. Inkjet on rag paper. 15.66 x 23.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York.
Adrien Broom, The Parlor, 2016. Sublimated metal art print. Courtesy of the artist.
Tom Zetterstrom, European Beech on the Lieutenant River, 2016. Archival pigment ink print. Courtesy of the artist.
Ted Hendrickson, Fog, December 14, 2015. Courtesy of the artist.
Tina Barney, The Print Dress, 2016. Chromogenic color print, 40 x 50 inches. Copyright Tina Barney, Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Marion Belanger, Garden Study (Untitled), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.
Kate Cordsen, Murmurations, 2016. Cyanotype on gessoed Linen. 51 x 120 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Alida Fish, Metcalf Collection #1, 2016. Pigment transfer print on oxidized aluminum, 24 x 20 inches. Courtesy Alan Klotz Gallery.
