After a short break, we're happy to update you about our artists and programs.

We're excited to participate in Paris Photo from November 6 to 10, as the fair returns to the Grand Palais, which has been reopened after its renovation. We will feature two Asian photographers, Joo Myung Duck and Hitoshi Fugo, whom we vigorously promoted in New York earlier this year. Both artists make challenging abstract reality in photography. Bringing their vibrant voices to this upscale stage will inspire conversation among a critical audience.

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Melissa Shook's first U.S. solo museum show received a review.

In the mid-to-late 1970s, the art world experienced a wave of serial self-portraiture by well-known artists, including Eleanor Antin, Cindy Sherman, and Francesca Woodman. Preceding them in this venture was photographer Melissa Shook, an artist of lesser renown whose contribution to the genre is explored in depth in a new exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Shook made approximately 200 self-portraits between December 1972 and August 1973 and dated each one, as seen in “March 29, 1973” (1973). The gelatin silver prints each measure roughly 4 x 4”.

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From October 10 to Feburary 9, El Museo Barrio's Flow States - La Trienale 2024 in New York features 33 Latinx artists, including Koyoltzintli (formerly Karen Miranda Rivadeneira). The show investigates their shared interests in transformation, the porosities of landscape and the built environment, spiritual connections, collective memories, hybrid belongings, and material exchanges. Koyoltzintli in another group exhibition, To Mend the Heat, at St. John's University's YEH Art Gallery on view through December 7.

La Maison de la Culture Marcel­ Robids in Quebec, Canada, featured Dominique Paul's photos, videos, and interactive and performative works created since 2012. Curated by Chantal Pontbriand, Seeing Red (Voir rouge) highlighted Paul's 2024 satirical performance piece filmed at a supermarket. Six classical female singers sang the libretto she wrote about current socio-economic and climate issues. Trailer >>>

Our spring exhibition of Joo Myung Duck, Sensory Space in Photography­­, brought about two new U.S. museum collections of his work. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University and The New Orleans Museum of Art each acquired Joo's gelatin silver print from his acclaimed Lost Landscapes series. The Nelson Atkins Museum acquired Joo's other work from the series during his first exhibition at our gallery in 2015.

Since 2022,  Yojiro Imasaka has been collaborating with several botanical gardens. In April, he participated in an Artist Residency in Arizona's Tucson Botanical Gardens. Imasaka photographs diverse plant specimens sustained by the conservatory system, investigating the unique history of a public garden and its environment. He uses the historical wet collodion process to produce photos from glass negatives. This is an ongoing project that explores different locations around the world. more information

In Serrezzano, Italy, Hai Zhang published a suite of etchings from his drawings of 16 oddly shaped rocks erupting from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano. You may remember that in 2010, the eruption lasted six months and caused major disruptions to air travel. The rocks today, 14 years old, still hold youthful force and fragility. Zhang was fascinated by their unruly nature and characters and nature's timetable beyond scientific calculation to produce them. more information

In an electronics plaza in Euljiro, an industrial area of Seoul, Korea,  Joseph Burwell teamed up with Woojing Lee to build the installation Apocalypse Laboratories, which investigates the potential meanings of severe weather imagery. The image here shows inflatable balloons, the shapes of which are based on scientifically collected smoke imagery. Burwell and Lee's collaborative team, Deapartment is Cynical Delight, is on Instagram (@departmentofcynicaldelight) to follow.

Chicago's O'Hare International Airport has completed its long-anticipated public art project. Among works by other prominent Chicago-based artists, Mayumi Lake's Shinsekai Yori ("from the new world") welcomes passengers to its International Arrival Corridor. Inspired by Dvorak's famous symphony, this large-scale relief evokes the excitement of arriving in the new world while reflecting a feeling of leaving home. The hand-cut floral images found in the girl's kimonos are assembled in spirals to create the illusion of movement as passengers walk through. ​

Manika Nagare, whose work has recently been included in two US university museums, completed a commission for the new office building of Kawata Construction Co., Mishima City. This is one of many projects she collaborated with the architectural firm. Her installation work, Too Close to Home, is a group of mixed-media pieces with organic shapes whose color hues shift with natural light (photo by Yasushi Ichikawa). Check more news on her official website.

Ken Ohara's work will be shown alongside works by Kikuji Kawada, Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu, and others at T3 Photo Festival 2024 in Tokyo. The exhibition, New Japanese Photography in New Light , curated by Sandra S. Phillips, Curators Emeritus of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, commemorates 50 years since the 1974 Museum of Modern Art New York's exhibition of postwar Japanese photography. Ohara's work is his innovative self-published photobook ONE that visitors can flip through.

This issue is dedicated to the recently deceased Japanese master photographer Eikoh Hosoe (1933-2024), whose work we exhibited in 2014 at our Chelsea space. He was gracious and generous when we interviewed him for the show in Tokyo. His generation experienced a tremendous postwar transition in Japanese culture and society, which is reflected in his work. Mr. Hosoe saw the endless possibilities and dreamed of a better society. His hopeful vision and iconic work will be forever appreciated.