9 Dec 2011 to 14 Jan 2012
Gallery hours: Friday - Monday 12 - 6 pm
Opening Reception: Friday, December 9, 6-10pm
Black & White Gallery / Project Space
483 Driggs Avenue
Brooklyn
NY 11211
New York, NY
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ROBERT WHITMAN F***ED UP IN MINNEAPOLIS December 9, 2011 - January 14, 2012
Polaroids of the artist and his friends partying in the early 80s Opening Reception: Friday, December 9, 6-10pm
The highlight of this exhibition is the personal collection of original Polaroids taken by Robert Whitman of his friends partying in his apartment in Minneapolis in the early 80s.
In F***ed Up In Minneapolis, the New York-based photographer Robert Whitman has fashioned both a tribute to his formative years as an artist and a group self-portrait defining the 80's through the individuals who were the willing participants of the scene. Arranged throughout the gallery space, these Polaroids possess an uncanny power and comprise, over time, a phantom-like collection of people dreaming of and playing in other realities, even as, together, they offer a memorial to collective experience.
Robert Whitman did not begin his career in photography until he was in his mid-twenties, and has worked for numerous magazines, including Travel & leisure, Allure, and Glamour. Throughout his career he has been documenting the experience of a place or a perception in time.
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Black & White Gallery was founded in New York in 2002. In 2008 the non-profit Black & White Project Space was created to expand the Black & White Gallery's public mission inside the paradigm of a contemporary art space. From the outset, Black & White Gallery/Project Space has been committed to cultivating promising artists in the initial and more advanced phases of their careers exploring contemporary themes and concepts through multiple mediums.
Media Information: Tatyana Okshteyn, founding director tel: 718 599 8775 info@blackandwhiteartgallery.com
