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Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce Portraits of Places. This exhibition will present works that engage with specific places, exploring how we understand and represent history, memory, and experience through the physical world. This exhibition will include works by Etel Adnan, Billy Al Bengston, Allan D’Arcangelo, Jan Dibbets, Damien Hirst, and Karen Kilimnik.
In Jan Dibbets’s Orvieto (1989) a photograph of the rose window of Orvieto’s 13th century Cathedral is shot at an angle and stripped of its original context. Presented on a dark, monochrome background, the photographed window …