Joel Sternfeld at Luhring Augustine, New York, Sep 6 - Oct 4

Exhibition Description:

Luhring Augustine will present an exhibition of new work by Joel Sternfeld entitled Oxbow Archive. These fifteen large-scale (5' x 7') photographic prints document weather and atmospheric effects in a field in central Massachusetts following the cycle of the seasons.

Sternfeld's new work departs from the painterly notions of the Picturesque and the Sublime; his field is flat, average and indistinguishable from thousands like it. Instead of taking the view from nearby Mount Holyoke as the Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole did in 1833, that looks down on the Oxbow of the Connecticut River, the "grandest prospect in North America", he has taken a single field that appears in Cole's now iconic painting.

Sternfeld turns this field into an ample point of interest with his attentive eye. He has created images that present themselves without pretense as a systematic index of seasonal progression. It is the idea of Place, long a second fiddle to Time in Western thinking, that comes to the fore in this deep reading of a hidden but culturally resonant patch of earth.

Description:

Image: Joel Sternfeld
April 19, 2007 The East Meadows, Northampton , Massachusetts
Negative: 2007; Print: 2008
Digital C-print
72 X 88 1/2 inches
(182.88 X 224.79 cm)

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