Nicholas Nixon: City views
Through complex compositions of building surfaces, window reflections, and shadows, the artist surveys the dense Boston cityscape.
Fraenkel Gallery will be closed for a short break December 24, 2024–January 1, 2025. We will reopen on January 9 with the exhibition Carrie Mae Weems. Happy Holidays!
Through complex compositions of building surfaces, window reflections, and shadows, the artist surveys the dense Boston cityscape.
Through complex compositions of building surfaces, window reflections, and shadows, the artist surveys the dense Boston cityscape.
Begun in 1975, this annual portrait series shows the artist’s wife and her three sisters. Seen together, the series is a deeply moving portrait of family, connection, and time.
These images of the vast cityscapes of New York and Boston, at once both ordered and chaotic, were part of one of the most influential exhibitions of the seventies, New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape at the George Eastman House.
Photographed in exquisite detail with a large-format camera, the modest details of light through a curtain or the undulations of grass become a rich source for meditative thought.
The artist’s frank photographs of his wife and two children, though deeply personal, evoke the universal themes of family life with its deep intimacy, trust, and love.