November 17, 2013
Upper West Side, New York City
Like being a child convinced that all your toys came to life when you left the room, photographer Gregory Vershbow reveals the hidden lives of the statues and paintings in the back rooms of museums and conservations laboratories. Recontextualized by their new surroundings, the art objects take on new meanings as they are suffocated by plastic wrap, poke their heads out of wooden crates or are resigned to do their time behind bars.
Vershbow says, “In taking these photographs, I have found that the camera, too, acts as an agent, sometimes revealing an optical arrangement visible only via long exposure. For some pictures, the exposure is so long that the subject is visible only in the photograph. Other pictures are made from multiple exposures. These composite images often have more than one vanishing point or exhibit an optically impossible depth of field. I do not touch or rearrange these objects, but the camera creates spaces and events that add to the manifold ways in which artifacts from the past reveal new points of view.”
Gregory Vershbow had solo show at the Walters Museum in Maryland this past summer entitled: Site Unseen. He had these prints on hand and we re-staged the museum show in his Upper West Side apartment.
Dinner guests: Paulina, Chris, Jen, Morgan, Diana, Carolina, Gabriela, Maria, Cody, Sam, Matt, Jeremy, Tora, Laurel and Shira
Artist, Gregory Vershbow (and his son, Asa)
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Installation shots from The Walters Museum
Gregory and Shira
Please direct all inquiries to
Curator: Sarah Alice Moran, sarah@sarahmoran.com
Artist: Gregory Vershbow, gvershbow@gmail.com
