On Friday, April 18, Pratt Manhattan Gallery will open two new images exhibitions: Black | Field by Dona Ann McAdams, which mixes black and white images with textual content to encapsulate late twentieth century American life, and AutoWorks & WaterWorks by Abby Robinson, which captures the physique performing video games of probability with the digicam, shifting by means of gentle and the fluidity of water.
Dona Ann McAdams: Black | Field
Black | Field is an exhibition by award-winning American photographer Dona Ann McAdams, combining 50 years of black and white images along with her personal quick lyric texts. Taken between 1974 and 2024, the images doc astonishing moments and folks throughout many years of American life. These putting historic photographs paired with private reflections that learn like prose poems work collectively to convey an unapologetic historical past of the Queer Liberation Motion, the Tradition Wars, and the Efficiency Artwork scene of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties. This present is timed to coincide with the discharge of McAdams’s current monograph, Black | Field: A Photographic Memoir, revealed by Saint Lucy Books.
Abby Robinson: AutoWorks & WaterWorks
Abby Robinson (1947–2024) developed her AutoWorks collection for over 30 years, starting in 1971. The collection communicates the artwork of girls deploying the digicam to debunk fastened gender roles by means of self-portrait images and presentation. Composed of black and white prints roughly two-by-three in dimension, the pictures from AutoWorks are small and intimate images.
Robinson’s WaterWorks collection grew out of AutoWorks over the previous decade, when she serendipitously took her digicam into the bathe. The usage of coloration and considerably bigger prints leads to a unique temper for the WaterWorks images. The photographs are direct, exhibiting merely a determine and a circumscribed area reworked by a mixture of water and lightweight. The exhibition options works from each collection, which had been chosen by the photographer earlier than her demise in July 2024.
Each exhibitions are on show at Pratt Manhattan Gallery from Friday, April 18, till June 7, 2025, with a public reception on Thursday, April 17, from 6 to 8pm. Pratt Manhattan Gallery is positioned at 144 West 14th Avenue in New York Metropolis, open 11am–6pm Monday by means of Saturday.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery’s program is made doable partly by the New York State Council on the Arts with the help of the Workplace of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
