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STEPHEN HUGHES AT ROBERT MANN
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NEW YORK CITY â Robert Mann Gallery will host a new exhibition of photographs by British artist Stephen Hughes from January 13 to March 5. A reception for the artist will be January 13, 6 to 8 pm.
Hughes is drawn to marginal landscapes, often where the urban and the natural worlds jut up against one another. Each location is carefully selected, but nothing is staged.
Hughes was born in Brighton, England, in 1968. Exhibited for the first time in 2001 at the De La Warr Pavilion, he has since shown work in France, Germany and the United States. He lives and works in Brighton, England.
For information, Robert Mann.com or 212-989-7600. The gallery is at 210 Eleventh Avenue between 24th and 25th streets, 10th floor. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm.
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TWO WOMEN, TWO WORLDS TO OPEN AT CAPE MAYâS CARRIAGE HOUSE GALLERY
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CAPE MAY, N.J. â The âTwo Women, Two Worlds,â opening January 15 at the Carriage House Gallery on the grounds of the Emlen Physick Estate, will explore the lives of two classes of Victorian women â that of Dr Physickâs mother, Mrs Ralston, and that of the women who would have worked in her kitchen.
The highlight of this exhibit will be the artifacts of the time, including clothing, upper-class sewing materials, servantâs cooking utensils and a range of furniture.
The exhibition runs through May 15. The Emlen Physick Estate is at 1048 Washington Street. Gallery hours vary. For information, call 609-884-5404 or 800-275-4278 or visit www.capemaymac.org.
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VINCENT SMITH AT ALEXANDRE GALLERY w/1 cut
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NEW YORK CITY â The Alexandre Gallery is exhibiting Vincent Smithâs early paintings and works on paper from the 1950s and 60s, through January 29. Included are examples from the seldom seen âSaturday Night in Harlemâ Â series created during the mid-1950s.
During this period Vincent Smith was an artist who pursued social inquiry that articulated African American identity. Along with contemporaries such as his close friend Jacob Lawrence, Smith used the communicative medium of painting in a direct, raw, colorful and narrative style to represent contemporary social issues, such as police brutality and political struggles. A parallel path in Smithâs work investigates a more quotidian experience such as everyday New York street life, which served as a fertile source of inspiration. Typically the rich details of placards on stores and buildings, the assembled people and their humanity mirror the ethos of the time.
In drawings like âFred Washington Slainâ Smith portrayed the assassinated Black Panther Party leader. The body of Washington lies at the bottom of the composition amid bullet holes and sanguine splashes, with the specifics of the scene roughly drawn in â the spontaneity of the drawing creating an emotional charge.
Alexandre Gallery is at the Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street. For information, www.AlexandreGallery.com or 212-755-2828.
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NEW YORK CITY â Bruce Silverstein Photography announces the exhibition âRobert Doisneau, from the Fictional to the Real,â vintage photographs, 1930â1990, from January 8 through February 12. This exhibition focuses on rare and unseen works from the artistâs early formative years, World War II, and the latter half of the Twentieth Century and reintroduces this seminal figure and develops current understanding of his oeuvre beyond his most iconic images.
Doisneauâs photographs blurred the distinctions between the documentary and the staged in depicting everyday moments of daily Parisian life. Imbued with wit and empathy, his images of the working-class milieu were greatly influenced by 1930s photojournalism, humanistic reportage of the 1940s and 1950s and by 1960s fashion photography.
Bruce Silverstein Photography is at 535 West 24 Street. For information, 212-627-3930 or www.BruceSilverstein.com.