Robert Adams: Around the House & Forest Roads
Recent work exploring the simple marvels and subtle drama in nearby patches of nature and intimate domestic scenes.
Fraenkel Gallery will be closed starting Thursday, November 28. We will reopen Tuesday, December 3 for the final weeks of our Kota Ezawa exhibition.
Recent work exploring the simple marvels and subtle drama in nearby patches of nature and intimate domestic scenes.
Recent work exploring the simple marvels and subtle drama in nearby patches of nature and intimate domestic scenes.
Modest in size and painted in springlike hues with block-printing ink, these simplified compositions draw on the stillness and grandeur that Adams remembers from his time spent on the Colorado prairie.
In a seminal series of images representing the suburban Southwest, Adams shows the brutal squalor of suburban architecture and its effect on the landscape, as well as the hopeful aspects of nature that are beyond our impact.
A look at the man-made cityscape, abutted by the magnificent rise of the Rocky Mountains. “Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract houses and billboards, why picture that?… One reason is…we need to improve things at home, and that to do it we have to see the facts without blinking.” – Robert Adams
These quiet and poignant photographs of the American Prairie and its inhabitants describe a humble perseverance, and a reason for hope.