Wild Flowers
June 19 – August 20, 2004

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The Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery is pleased to present WILD FLOWERS, a summer exhibition with the premise that the flower - long treasured as an object of beauty, and represented as such throughout the history of painting and more recently in photography - has reached a place where it has often been reduced to being seen as a cliché and so perhaps needs to be looked at with fresh eyes.

The photographers included here have tried to reconsider the flower and its role in everyday life in ways that relate to more serious photographic issues, such as social consciousness, satire, humor, portraiture, street life and its exquisite observations, and of course the still life. Consider the juxtaposition of a young man boxing in his bathroom mirror while behind him, as a backdrop, is his delicate floral shower curtain taking the edge off his toughness, or a Parisian fruit vendor leaning against a wall in a tight black sweater with an embroidered rose between her breasts, while below her, wild strawberries glitter in the half light. Elsewhere we have a sun struck posy gracing a hot dog vendor’s stand in the grim canyons of New York City, a daisy decorates a young woman’s belly button ring, a unicyclist deftly balances a delivery of an oversize column of paper flowers, a portrait of a man in a tulip patterned dress, and a photogram of flora floating in moonlit waters.

Artists featured in this exhibition are: Gail Albert-Halaban, Susan Derges, Ranée Flynn, Matt Harnett, Peter Kayafas, Chad Kleitsch, Joel Meyerowitz, Frederic Ohringer, Gus Powell, Thomas Roma, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Mark Shaw, Alec Soth, and George Tice.

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