Never afraid to confront iconic subject matter, Michael Kenna turns his lens on New York City in his new body of work. Infinitely rendered by masters and tourists alike, the city is transformed through Kenna's eyes. Recalling Kertész perched on his window over Washington Square Park, or Stieglitz peering up at those shiny new skyscrapers, Kenna romanticizes even the most frenetic landscape by seeking out those quiet moments at dusk and dawn. Continue → For Jerarquías de Intimidad (La Anunciación), Guatemalan artist González Palma will transform the gallery with the installation of two related bodies of work, part of his larger ongoing investigation of the myth of the Annunciation. Elaborating on his signature iconography, an emphasis on hands runs through each series, speaking to ideas of intimacy, conception, desire and deception. Continue → Interiors features 16 new photographs by Dutch artist Wijnanda Deroo. An international traveler with a camera as her companion rather than a guide book, Wijnanda Deroo explores the shared humanity imprinted upon the environments we inhabit. Her photographs, although from geographically disparate locales, including Indonesia, Berlin, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, and Sharon Springs, New York are unified by their sumptuous colors, formal geometries, and quotidian subject matter. Continue → The first installment of a continuing theme for future summer shows, Epilogues showcases works by artists who were exhibited at the gallery from 2005 to 2007: Gail Albert Halaban, Jeff Brouws, Mary Mattingly, Laurent Millet and res. Epilogues presents new works in which, since the time of their solo shows, each artist has continued the themes of the series exhibited. Ranging from social and cultural to natural landscapes, Epilogues reveals traceable threads of style and subject matter for each artist. Continue → Of Falling & Floating presents two chapters in Elijah Gowin's newest series of images. The photographs in this exhibition raise questions of doubt and faith in our increasingly polarized society. Gowin's subjects are pictured drifting in water or falling through the air, either accepting what is happening to them with grace or reacting instead with panic. A sense of anxiety and mystery pervades the images: who are these people, in what rituals are they engaged, and what led them to these transformative moments? Continue → New Zealand's South Pacific and Tasman Sea is the newest chapter in Chip Hooper's ongoing series of ocean photographs. The first installment, California's Pacific, was exhibited at Robert Mann Gallery in 2004. In recent years, Hooper's travels have taken him to the rugged shores of New Zealand. He continues to perfect his approach to photographing the ocean, steadily refining his sense of lyrical minimalism, as in Toward Dunedin, South Pacific, 2003, where a horizon of dark water is broken by a jagged line of distant mountains, or in Cape Foulwind Beach, Tasman Sea, 2003, where a monolithic cliff rises beyond the frame. Continue → Susan Rankaitis is a mixed-media artist whose works often allude to ideas in contemporary science. Her most recent photographic works document her ephemeral installation, Limbicwork, completed in 2005 at Europas Parkas, the Outdoor Museum of Central Europe in Vilnius, Lithuania. Suspended in the dense forest, long arcs and loops of bright plastic tubing represent the components of the limbic system, part of the brain which influences the formation of memory by connecting emotion to physical sensation. Continue → Henry Wessel has worked as a photographer for nearly thirty years. He first garnered widespread critical attention during the early 1970s in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and as one of the young photographers included in the New Topographics exhibition at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York. Since then, Wessel has documented his surroundings, finding a sense of lyrical beauty in the everyday. His "keen-eyed observations share the spontaneity and honesty of snapshots, but are inflected with his own wry humor." (Sandra Sloan, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) Continue →