Deana lawson biography of albert
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Who was Albert Bierstadt? Despite criticism in his later years for being extravagant and unpolished, Albert Bierstadt is largely regarded today as being one of America&#;s best landscape painters; a man whose works present a distinctive image of the natural history of America throughout the last half of the 19th century. He created epic landscape paintings of the wild American West using drawings and photographs, which were enormously popular with the American audience. Today, we will be taking a closer look at Albert Bierstadt’s biography as well as the style of Albert Bierstadt’s paintings.
Albert Bierstadt’s Biography
| Nationality | German-American |
| Date of Birth | 7 January |
| Date of Death | 18 February |
| Place of Birth | Solingen, Rhine Province, Germany |
Photograph of Albert Bierstadt by Napoleon Sarony (c. ); Napoleon Sarony, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bierstadt used color for poetic rather than realistic effects, and it was large in siz
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Deana Lawson
Deana Lawson’s strikingly intimate photographs examine themes of family, cultural legacy, sexuality, spirituality and employ black aesthetics as the cornerstone of her distinctive oeuvre. Her works draw upon visual traditions such as formal portraiture, social documentary, and personal family albums, expertly recording social narratives of African American day-to-day life in contemporary America.
Lawson’s subjects are often strangers she meets in public spaces, yet she refers to them as “her family”. She arranges her models in domestic settings, paying particular attention to lighting and pose, which the artist utilizes to transform and intensify these intimate spaces. Lawson painstakingly arranges her subjects – a young man holding up a West Side symbol, a mother cradling her crying child, and an elderly woman she met at a corner store with a prosthetic foot – and her environments – lace curtains, plastic couch covers, and pe
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Deana Lawson
Boris Mikhailov: Refracted Times
From January 10, to February 22,
Marian Goodman Gallery is very pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition of works by the acclaimed Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov which will be on view from 10 January to 22 February Known for his groundbreaking photographic practice which combines his interest in cinema, documentary, performance, and writing, Mikhailov has been an inventive, tender but uncompromising witness to the changing fate of his native Ukraine and the consequent experiences of war and displacement. The exhibition explores his rethinking and reworking of the photographic image by including two video works – one from the late '60s-'70s, Yesterday’s Sandwich, and the most recent, Our Time is Our Burden, – as well as showcasing three iconic photographic series from the ‘80s and ‘90s. One of the most acclaimed photographers of the former USSR, he represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale in , and debuted his work in th