Nassau County Museum of Art will present “Still Life: 1970s Photorealism” from July 19 to Nov. 9.
The exhibition was organized at the Yale University Art Gallery by Cathleen Chaffee, now curator at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. The museum will present a full schedule of related public programs that will serve to enhance and amplify the experience of the exhibition.
“Still Life” displays works associated with Photorealism — a movement comprising painters who took photography as their subject and sculptors who recreated the human body with surprising accuracy.
A significant trend in art of the 1970s, Photorealism has sometimes been described since then as a more mechanical offshoot of 1960s Pop art.
However, the works in Still Life make a compelling argument that Photorealists captured life in the 1970s with a grittier honesty than has previously been acknowledged. These works have renewed relevance as the ability of photography to capture “the real” has undergone dramatic changes and continues to develop in unanticipated ways.
Among the leading artists whose work is included in Still Life are Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Duane Hanson, Malcolm Morley, Ben Schonzeit and Idelle Weber.
For information, call (516) 484-9337 or log onto nassaumuseum.org/events beginning on July 7, after the closing of the current exhibition, Garden Party.
Nassau County Museum of Art is located at 1 Museum Drive in Roslyn Harbor, just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A, two traffic lights west of Glen Cove Road. The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students with ID and children aged 4 to 12. Members and children under 4 are admitted free.
