High Museum Of Art, Atlanta runs an exhibition of works by Richard Misrach named 'On The Beach'. The exhibition will be on view through August 23, 2009.
What lies beneath a compelling landscape?
Since 2001, color photography pioneer Richard Misrach has made a series of large-scale, lushly colored photographs of swimmers and sunbathers in Hawaii. Working from a hotel adjacent to the beach, Misrach adopts a floating viewpoint that eliminates all reference to the horizon or sky to record people wholly immersed in the idyllic environment. The photographs, which are vast in scale and perspective, coax the particularities of nature into ethereal, nearly abstract patterns of color and light.
Yet despite their compelling beauty, an oblique sense of disquietude pervades these photographs. An unquiet apprehension of “danger in paradise” is integral to their meaning. Begun in the days immediately after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the series, made over a five year period, speaks to the sense of physical and psychological vulnerability that has pervaded the nation’s consciousness since that time.
Twenty photographs will be included in this exhibition, which completes an extensive national tour at the High.
The picture shows Richard Misrach, Untitled #586-04 (detail), 2004, digital chromogenic color print, 71 x 111-1/2 inches, collection of the artist. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Marc Selwyn FIne Art, Los Angeles and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York. -- www.high.org
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