JOANN VERBURG’S PHOTOGRAPHS ON VIEW AT MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN NYC

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NEW YORK CITY — The Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition “JoAnn Verburg” in the Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor, on view through November 5.

This exhibition of approximately 60 photographs will survey the 25-year career of American photographer JoAnn Verburg (b 1946), who often works in simultaneous series of different subjects — composed and “found” still lifes, portraits and landscapes. She slowly explores their pictorial possibilities.

Verburg’s methodical way of working includes diptychs and triptychs that demonstrate how the content of a picture can be enriched by using more than one photograph at a time, yet maintain coherence through the close formal and referential relationship of the individual exposures. Her use of a 4-by-5-inch-format camera and a radiant color palette make her photographs balancing acts that describe the sensuality and physicality of her subjects, and those spaces and moments suspended in the reverie that precedes action.

The exhibition is organized by Susan Kismaric, curator, department of photography, The Museum of Modern Art, and is accompanied by a catalog.

The Museum of Modern Art is at 11 West 53rd Street. For information, www.moma.org or 212-708-9400.