This year Gallery Luisotti will focus on the changing visual conversation within photography that took root in the late 1960s, expanding from narrative based imagery into a conceptual framework.

The addition of Robert Cumming and his investigation of illusion through his 1970s “made for camera” installations, became the perfect platform to open up a conversation with rest of our gallery artists. Be it John Divola’s interventions in, George Air Force Base, Christina Fernandez’s Untitled, Multiple Exposures double exposures, Lewis Baltz’s rare work from 1990, Ron Jude introducing Dark Matter, CJ Heyliger with Seascape abstractions, burn elements from Mark Ruwedel’s Los Angeles, Four Ecologies, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s minimal Hejaz Railroad images, Milton Rogovin’s urban portraits, Catherine Wagner’s slightly subversive Disneyland series, and then our guest artist Justine Kurland’s SCUMB Manifesto collages. Each artist amplifying the elasticity of ideas within contemporary photography.

The VIP opening & evening reception will be on Wednesday, November 9.

There will also be a book signing for Ron Jude’s new publication Dark Matter, with Monogram Books at the gallery booth on Friday, November 11, from 3-4pm.

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Lewis Baltz
Robert Cumming
John Divola
Christina Fernandez
CJ Heyliger
Ron Jude
Justine Kurland
Milton Rogovin
Mark Ruwedel
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Catherine Wagner

Ron Jude
Dark Matter, 2022

Book Signing with Artist
November 11, 3–4pm
Booth A07

We are pleased to host a book signing for Ron Jude’s new publication, Dark Matter, with Monogram books.

In Dark Matter, Ron Jude revisits the source material taken from photographs in his hometown newspaper in Central Idaho in the American West. In this new body of work, Jude reimagines how these photographs can be configured to reflect this microcosm’s collective mood and values. Motivated by a sense of unease and bewilderment with the cultural bifurcation of America, and grounded in a sense of tragedy, loss, and rage, Jude uses a looping tempo of images to surface the latent underpinnings of this mood, located in the helplessness and corresponding desire for control that stutter throughout the sequence. Consistent with themes found in his previous book Alpine Star, Dark Matter is at once a self-reflexive meditation on how cultural context shapes one’s sense of self, and an examination of the way in which photography, as a mass-medium, both mirrors and reinforces shared perceptions and attitudes.

Guest Artist
Justine Kurland

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