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 LYNN STERN ‘VEILED STILL LIFES’ TO OPEN AT MITCHELL-INNES & NASH

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NEW YORK CITY — Mitchell-Innes & Nash will present an exhibition of photographs by Lynn Stern, September 25–October 13. An opening reception for the artist will be at the gallery on Tuesday, September 25, from 6 to 8 pm.

For more than 20 years Stern has been working with objects placed either behind or in front of a white translucent fabric, using the cloth not as a backdrop, but as a medium. In the “Veiled Still Lifes” series, she works with a black fabric, creating a feeling of dark luminosity and a sense of texture in the weave of the fabric.

While most still lifes tend to be static, focusing on the objects that constitute the works’ subjects, Stern’s “Veiled Still Lifes” are dynamic, and use space as an active element that becomes as important as the objects themselves.

Stern’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Cornell University; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Smith College Museum of Art; and at galleries in New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Seattle and Barcelona.

Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.; the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass.; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Stern has published three monographs: Animus (Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2000); Dispossession, recipient of a 1995 Ernst Haas Award, (New York: Aperture, 1995); and Unveilings (Hudson Hills Press, 1989).

The gallery is at 1018 Madison Avenue at 78th Street. For general information, 212-744-7400.