9 New Photography Exhibitions for Your Calendar: D'Andre Williams, Meryl Meisler, Andre Wagner, Sally Mann, + More
There's a bunch of recently opened, and upcoming photography exhibitions happening. Plus an art book fair for your weekend, and an exciting, new ceramic show in the Lower East Side.
Hi all—
I’ve got a new lineup of exhibitions to send your way, plus some other exciting programs like an art book fair this weekend. See below for the rest of what I have planned.
Bungee Space x Accent Sisters: Rehearsal Artbook Fair at University Settlement
Tonight, 9/15 7:30-10pm, and tomorrow, 9/16 11am-7:30pm; 184 Eldridge St.
New York photography and image-focused bookstore Bungee Space, and New Jersey-based “speakeasy literature bookstore" / studio Accent Sisters have brought together 49 bookmakers in and outside New York for this weekend’s Rehearsal Artbook Fair. In addition to the fair, Sam iz Dat: an exhibition of (independent/underground) publications by Chinese-speaking Creators will be on view and showcase over 240 titles— some for the very first time in the US— curated by Shisi Huang of Bungee Space and Jiaoyang Li of Accent Sisters. You can find a complete list of the exhibitions here or on the fair’s Instagram.
I can’t remember when I got introduced to Bungee Space but I’ve since become a frequent visitor for their events, library perusing, and book looking. My favorite thing about Bungee Space is the design focus, as the shopkeepers and owners have a background in mostly design which has heavily informed their collection of books and as such, will likely present an exciting, eclectic roster of bookmakers at this fair. Tickets for opening night are $20 and include admission on Saturday, general admission tickets for Saturday are $5. Buy your tickets here.
Andre D. Wagner: New City, Old Blues opening reception, Wagner in conversation with Jamel Shabazz at the Gordon Parks Foundation
Wednesday, 9/20 6-8pm; On view through 11/17; 48 Wheeler Ave.
Wagner, a 2022 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow, will be presenting over 100 photographs made from 2014 to 2023 in this solo exhibition that takes the title from a 10-year body of work that Wagner is currently in the process of editing. Having moved to New York in 2011 from Omaha, the exhibition will present Wagner's early work alongside the more familiar street photographs we might be more familiar with. Please RSVP for the opening event here.
James T. & Karla L. Murphy: Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City’s Independent Shops, Past & Present exhibition reception and book signing at Village Works NYC
Thursday, 9/21 6-8pm; On view through 10/8; 12 Saint Marks Pl.
The Murphys’ Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York (Gingko Press, 2011) is a 300+ book that has been propped up by my family in our living room since they bought it over a decade ago. The Murphys can be described as devoted documentarians of fading New York establishments. With every store’s passing and departure, you can be sure they’ll be sharing a photograph of the storefront’s former liveliness. It’s an often reference used in Jeremiah Moss’s Vanishing New York blog that’s been operating since July 2007 and for which my dad has been reading regularly. Congratulations to James and Karla on another necessary book that celebrates and historicizes overlooked storefronts whose customers only after the store leaves, yell at themselves that they didn’t carry a camera when they went.
D’Andre Williams: Guide Me Home at Whaam!
On view through 10/7; 15 Elizabeth St.
This is Williams's first solo exhibition, but his second time exhibiting with Whaam! after a Spring, 2020 virtual group show. Williams has said this work focuses on “displacement, and what it looks like to find your place in the world & never forgetting where you came from.” In addition to the exhibition, Williams will have a catalog for sale exclusively at the gallery, made in an edition of 50.
Wolfgang Tillmans: Fold Me at David Zwirner
On view through 10/14; 525 & 533 W. 19th St.
Having interned at David Zwirner Books this past Spring, I’m jealous that I did not get to be part of DZ during this exhibition’s preparation. The former pop-up bookstore has become a permanent fixture on 20th Street where you’ll be able to pick up some of Tillmans’ publications in addition to Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Toba Khedoori’s titles which are exhibiting at the same time as Tillmans at DZ’s other galleries within a block radius.
Darryl DeAngelo Terrell: It’s Never Too Late to Admit That You Love Me at Baxter Street at the Camera Club of NY
On view through 10/18; 126 Baxter St.
Terrell, a Baxter St 2023 Resident, presents in their solo exhibition 13 self-portraits that extend from their Black, queer, and disabled identity and experience coming to New York from Detroit. Terrell has said that most of these photographs were made during their time at Baxter Street as a fellow but also includes work made during their time as a 2022 Fire Island Artist in Resident and 2021 Black Rock Senegal Artist in Resident.
Elberto Mullers: Vacant Hand at Entrance
On view through 10/21; 48 Ludlow St.
I walked past a Mullers ceramic the other day down in Chinatown and wondered how long it had been there. I immediately thought of the well-known East Village-based Mosaic Man, Jim Powers, and his Mosaic Trail who has been applying mosaics to around 80 telephone poles for close to 40 years, giving homage and tribute to lost icons and places in the neighborhood and city-wide. Like Powers, Mullers’ public artworks are something you stumble upon and realize the significance of the work, and ultimately the place that it is glued to.
Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann: to light, and then return— at Gagosian
On view through 10/28; 976 Madison Ave.
I’m thankful for friend and artist Joe Librandi-Cowan who posted about the duo’s opening the other night. Having seen some of Mann’s work recently at the International Center of Photography’s Love Songs group show, I’m looking forward to seeing more of Mann’s alternative process, platinum prints.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard at Gitterman Gallery
On view through 10/28; 3 E. 66th St. #1B
I’m not sure the last time I saw any of Meatyard’s prints in person, but I can’t help but think of my college freshman year roommate Blake who became interested in Meatyard’s work with the complex, intricate narrative making from simply incorporating masks and specific posture.
Meryl Meisler: Simply Scintillating: A Retrospective at CLAMP
On view through 11/4; 247 W. 29th St.
This will have been Meisler’s second solo exhibition at CLAMP, but her first-ever retrospective which spans work made in “suburban Long Island to the frenetic clubs of 1970s Manhattan.” Meisler’s zine Duos was released earlier this Summer at Dashwood Books, published by Dashwood and Two by Two Media.
Daniel Ramos: Eres Muy Hermosa at Baxter Street at the Camera Club of NY’s Project Space
On view through 12/2; 128 Baxter St.
This is Ramos’s first solo exhibition; he is an upcoming fellow at the Whitney Museum's 2023-2024 Independent Study Program. Situated at Baxter St’s Project Space behind their cafe, Ramos has 8 large-format portraits in the solo exhibition that were made in Monterrey, Mexico in 2018. Last year Ramos received the 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography.
That is all I have for now. If you have any events come your way, send them my way as well, please. Thanks in advance.
Rainer