Brandon Foushée solo-exhibition & Elle Pérez lecture at Pratt Institute next week!
Double whammy at Pratt next week with a solo-exhibition of Foushée, followed later in the week with an afternoon lecture by Pérez
Brandon Foushée: Double Moon opening reception at Pratt Institute
Monday, 10/9 5-8pm, on view through 10/27; 200 Willoughby Ave, ARC Building, Lower Level, Pratt Photography Gallery
I met Brandon in the summer of 2022 through the artist and my friend, Johan Orellana. Brandon had just finished assisting a photographer and was working at a premier photo print shop in Brooklyn. While I was an intern at David Zwirner during the past spring and summer, we were working as neighbors while he was at Jack Shainman Gallery. I last saw his work in May when he had a piece in a group show called Flesh and Resist at a pop-up gallery called Temple Gallery.
His piece had grown from his past portfolio of single images to a collaged and compiled piece, using archival family snapshots and his own contemporary work. I’m looking forward to seeing what the solo show brings together.
If you don’t attend Pratt, you’ll have to RSVP here for the opening.
Photography Talk Series: Elle Pérez at Pratt Institute
Wednesday, 10/11 2pm; 200 Willoughby Ave, ARC Building, Lower Level, E2 Lecture Hall
Today marks the last day of Pérez’s solo exhibition, guabancex, at gallery 47 Canal. In the show, there are three large pieces representing Pérez's ongoing exploration, bringing together current works-in-progress, contact sheets, prints, references (such as text and images xeroxed from theory and photography books), post-it notes, writings, and more. In this rendition, the collage is displayed on a panel covered in black fabric. In their ongoing solo show, Intimacies, on view at MassMoCA through July 2024, the studio collages, as labeled in the press release, are taped, stuck, and push-pinned to wood panels. The collages appear to have originated with their first museum solo exhibition, Diablo, at MoMA PS1 in the summer of 2018. I recall their visit to Bard College's Student-Run Darkroom in May 2021 when they discussed their intention to make the internal thought-making and studio thinking process more understandable and visible to the public. I look forward to hearing more about their insights.
If you don’t attend Pratt, you’ll have to RSVP for the event here.