Pace Gallery presents two bodies of work by Paul Graham
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Pace Gallery presents two bodies of work by Paul Graham
Installation view of Paul Graham: The Seasons, 510 West 25th Street. February 28 – April 11, 2020. Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.



NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting an exhibition of two bodies of work by Paul Graham: one recent and one vintage, never before exhibited. Marking the first photography presentation since Pace/MacGill merged with Pace Gallery, this large exhibition is the third solo show of Graham’s photography at the gallery since joining in 2011. The Seasons is on view from February 28 through April 11, 2020 at 510 West 25th Street. Pace Gallery's New York spaces are open by appointment subject to safety and travel restrictions.

The main gallery space features The Seasons—six large format photographs made in homage to Pieter Bruegel’s iconic works after which the series is titled. Commissioned in 1565 and depicting rural life in Northern Europe, Bruegel’s series consisted of a suite of six paintings spread across the year. At that time the seasons were divided into paired months, thus having six. Bruegel’s works, including Hunters in the Snow, The Harvesters, and The Gloomy Day, are some of the best-known paintings in the world.

Inspired by the financial crisis, Graham began photographing the major US bank headquarters on Park Avenue. After a year, he began to sense a connection between his images, with their panoply of activity spread across sidewalks and courtyards, to Bruegel’s iconic images. This inspired him to create his own Seasons, exchanging peasant life in 16th century Flanders for the finance world of 21st century New York.

Like all of Graham’s work, these photographs are direct from life—they are not staged or Photoshop composites. Each image in The Seasons examines the briefest fractions of time, just 1/1000th of a second, where humanity is revealed mid-step, walking, eating, talking, laughing, and gesturing. The photographs are large, and though made using the simplest of technique—a single exposure with a handheld camera—they are mesmerizing in their detail and color.

In the smaller gallery, Graham is showing Sightless, a never exhibited series of portraits made fifteen years ago on 42nd Street, New York. In these images, each individual has their eyes closed whether from walking into low afternoon sunlight, from a musical trance, or simply a random blink. Inverting the convention of portraiture by embracing what would normally be rejected, Graham presents us with photographs of people walking through the city sightless. Embedded in deep Plexiglas mounts, these images continue an ongoing engagement throughout Graham’s work with blindness both metaphorically and literally. He himself lost his sight in a childhood accident, before regaining it a few months later.

Graham embraces the artistic provocation inherent in both works: in choosing what would normally be rejected in the Sightless series, we see people not seeing; and in The Seasons his work transposes straight photography for studiously composed painting, contemporary life for historical longing, and clear eyed reality for wistful romanticism.

Paul Graham (b. 1956,United Kingdom) has played a fundamental role in fostering a new school of photography, connecting the perceived fissures between photography, cinematography, and contemporary art. Traditionally, black-and-white was considered the realm of art photography, while color was reserved for commercial and vernacular photography. At the beginning of his practice in the late 1970s, Graham’s adaptation of color photography was considered a radical approach, marking a defiance of the unwritten rules of engaged photography and its conventions. Over the past four decades, Graham has travelled widely, photographing the texture of life to produce bodies of work in distinct series that are thought-provoking, informative, and conceptually compelling.










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