I attended a few gallery openings last night in Chelsea prior to the tornado rushing through Brooklyn. I was under the impression that only a few of the galleries would have openings but I soon found out that was not correct. The highlight of the night was Laura Letinsky's new work titled After All that was on exhibit at Yancey Richardson Gallery. The show consisted of a mixture of primarily Chromogenic and 3 Inkjet prints made on Hahnemuhle paper. The work is darker and slightly more graphic. I asked her in a talk hosted by the BFA Photo program at SVA what is was that has inspired her to work with a darker palette and she responded saying that her latest child caused her to stay home and work later than earlier work. I was very impressed with the Hahnemuhle prints, very soft and the whites in her pictures were spot on.
On the 3rd floor of the same building Letinsky's work was in, the nigh time photographs of Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao were on exhibit in the Julie Saul Gallery. I must say the prints were too large for the amount of space in the gallery so I was not able to enjoy them as much as I wanted too considering the amount of people who had showed up.
As the night went on, I stumbled into one of my favorite gallery in the area, Bruce Silverstein. The show titled Beyond Color: Color in American Photography, 1950-1970
showed work from artists such as Harry Callahan, Garry Winogrand and many other. The 9 Callahan photographs were in 5 separate sizes along a wall dedicated to only his work of signs and mannequins in storefronts.
In the Marianne Boesky Gallery gallery, bronze tree branches were on exhibit from the artist Jay Heikes. His delicate bronze branches looked as if they were going to snap but discovered that was not going to happen after the 3rd or 4th person who tripped over the piece laying in the floor.
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