TOD PAPAGEORGE: Studio 54, 1978-1980

Studio 54, 1978-1980

Photograph (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

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Studio 54, 1978-1980

Photograph (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

Studio 54, 1978-1980

Photograph (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

Studio 54, 1978-1980

Photograph (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

Galerie Thomas Zander presents its first exhibition of works by the American photographer Tod Papageorge. On view is a series of seventy black and white photographs from the legendary New York night club Studio 54, that was frequented by the likes of Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Mick Jagger and Grace Jones. Papageorge always had his camera at hand and between 1978 and 1980 he celebrated with the rich and beautiful, the artists and starlets; even today viewers can witness the eccentric and hedonistic party nights in his photographs. They revive the feeling of the disco era and express a profoundly urban spirit of directness, which condensed in New York at that time.

In the 1960s, Tod Papageorge had a close artistic exchange with Garry Winogrand. Both artists used to meet almost daily to take photographs in the streets of New York. During those days, some icons of photography history originated, which with their intuition and intensity exude a unique kind of lightness. As a recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and a teaching professor at Yale University for many years, Papageorge’s influence on contemporary photography can hardly be overestimated.

Renowned photographers like Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Gregory Crewdson, or Anna Gaskell were among his students. All of Tod Papageorge’s works are based on an interest in people as social beings. Be it his images of sports stadiums, his photographs of everyday life in Central Park or the images from Studio 54, in all his photographs people are characterized through the group they belong to and their experience of the present moment. His works are intense portraits of America marked by a powerful authenticity. (text courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander)

TOD PAPAGEORGE / STUDIO 54

January 25 – April 12, 2014

Galerie Thomas Zander
Schönhauser Str. 8, 50968 Köln, Germany

PAULA McCARTNEY: A Field Guide to Snow + Ice opens at KLOMPCHING Gallery

White Sands #4, 2009  © Paula McCartney 

Image: courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

 Black Ice #1 and Black Ice #2, 2011 © Paula McCartney

Image: courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

 Backyard Snow #2, 2010  © Paula McCartney 

Image: courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

“I see winter everywhere, in every environment, in every season and categorize it by pattern, shape, and line rather than merely by substance”– Paula McCartney

A Field Guide to Snow and Ice is a sophisticated set of photographs, continuing Paula McCartney’s visual exploration of truth and fabrication in the photographic image and natural world. The 29 artworks that make up the exhibit at KLOMPCHING GALLERY, are a sequential installation of modestly-sized photographs, interweaving natural elements and constructed environments—we see snowfalls, frozen waterfalls, stalagmites and snowdrifts.

McCartney’s representation of abstracted elements, reveal a nuanced ambiguity of scale and substance, causing what has been photographed, to transcend its origin. This is not an exhibition to take for granted, but one to explore carefully, particularly its use of a collapse between the creative and scientific languages.

Paula McCartney
A Field Guide to Snow and Ice
January 10 – February 15, 2014
Artist Reception: Thursday, January 9, 6m–8pm

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Brooklyn

Paula McCartney gained an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in California (2002). She has been the recipient of several awards including a 2013-2014 MCP/McKnight Artist Fellowship. McCartney’s photographs have been widely exhibited and her work is held in the collections of the Deutsche Bank, Walker Art Center, MOMA and Yale University amongst others. Accompanying the exhibition is On Thin Ice, In A Blizzard—a limited edition artist book, featuring a selection of photographs from A Field Guide to Snow and Ice. (Text: courtesy of Klompching Gallery)