PAST EXHIBITIONS
The Photography Show Presented by AIPAD
April 23 - 27, 2025
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065
Booth B04
Opening April 23, 2025 is the 45th edition of The Photography Show presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The Photography Show is the longest running and foremost commercial exhibition dedicated to the photographic medium.
In our booth, we will are excited to share new work by Rashod Taylor, Douglas Miles (above photo), Lynn Stern, Louviere+Vanessa, as well as hand-painted gelatin silver prints by Brigitte Carnochan and vintage platinum prints by Laura Gilpin.
View the email with our booth preview here.
While visiting Paris Photo this past November, we were thrilled to be able to meet with Coco and gather some new inventory for our gallery! We won't be holding a formal reception for this exhibition so please visit us anytime during gallery hours 11-5pm Tuesday - Saturday to view the exhibition! Today, March 14, we are open 11-4pm!
French artist Coco Fronsac paints non-European masks onto Western vernacular photographs from the early 20th Century. A dichotomy is developed between the early forms from the continents of Africa, Oceania, America, and Asia, and the standardized nature of photographic portraits as they occurred a century ago. These surreal images plunge us into a dreamlike, comical world, contrasting ritual and tradition, to exploit the unexpected juxtapositions with startling effect. For the artist, the portraits seek to bring a commonality to the human experience by representing the family relationship and different stages of development for a Western person like herself (moving from birth, to communion, military service, marriage, etc.) in context with non-Western rituals she respects.'
Coco Fronsac plays with the viewers’ vision of time, to better project themselves into a new, fluctuating, living, subjective reality. The vernacular photographs on which Fronsac works themselves go back in time. The paintings she mixes over the photographs typically go back to indigenous cultures she admires. With the combination, she imbues a contemporary approach to both subjects, bringing a new portrayal of humanity’s present position.
VIEW ALL OF COCO FRONSAC'S WORK HERE.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE.
Obscura Gallery presents
IAN MARKUS: Fragments of the Frontier, a photographic exploration of the fading culture of ranching in Montana. With imagery created from a 4 x 5†film camera, Ian composites two or more negatives in the darkroom to create ethereal, large-format gelatin silver prints. The resulting ghostly images give a visceral interpretation of the fading cowboy culture that Ian has encountered in the contemporary ranches of Montana.
Santa Fean Ian Markus is the son of the late Obscura Gallery photographer Kurt Markus, who had a long storied career including photographing cowboy culture, and publishing three cowboy monographs since the 1980s. Ian has witnessed this subject matter since he was a young boy accompanying his father on photographic expeditions in the West and assisting Kurt for many long hours in the darkroom. This work provides an insightful perspective into the current state of ranching, showing the juxtaposition of a practice that is facing numerous challenges in our contemporary climate.
VIEW ALL THE WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION HERE.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE.
Obscura Gallery presents our 2024 Holiday exhibition of small, photo-based works by gallery and guest artists including
Angie Brockey, Tulsa, OK
Brigitte Carnochan,Palo Alto, CA
Sam Elkind, Santa Fe, NM
Nicola Hackl-Haslinger,Austria
Max Kellenberger,San Francisco, CA
Louviere+Vanessa, New Orleans, LA
Jennifer Schlesinger, Santa Fe, NM
Caitlyn Soldan, Santa Fe, NM
Eddie Soloway,Santa Fe, NM
and more!
We will host a Holiday open house reception on Saturday, November 30, 2024 from 1-5pm with many of the artists present.
VIEW ALL THE WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION HERE.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE.
