"Soft Cities" aluminum photo-sculptures
by Gary Duehr
at Boston Sculptors Gallery's LaunchPad
August 25 - September 26, 2021
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept 3, 5-8:30 pm
The LaunchPad at Boston Sculptors Gallery presents Soft Cities by Gary Duehr, on view August 25 – September 26. The gallery hours are Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm. The First Friday opening reception is Friday, September 3, from 5 – 8:30 pm.
Printed on aluminum which the artist then crumples into free-form sculptural shapes, Duehr’s photographs conjure urban scenes as fleeting, ghostly impressions. Rather than depicting a "hard city" of steel, glass and concrete, Duehr’s gently eliding images represent the viewer’s dreamlike consciousness. Offering illusions of scale and many-layered reflections, this imaginary city intermingles inhabitant and city, identity and desire. The city is what one makes of it, and vice versa.
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GARY DUEHR
Gary Duehr teaches digital photo at local universities. He has been chosen as a Best Emerging Artist in New England by the International Association of Art Critics, and he has received an Artist Grant in photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His work has been featured in museums and galleries including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; MOMA PS 1, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba, as well as exhibitions in Tokyo, Venice, London, Dublin and Barcelona. Past awards include grants from the LEF Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
His public artworks include a video installation for the Canadian subway system; a photo installation funded by the Visible Republic program of New England Foundation for the Arts, and a commission from the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority) for a permanent photo installation at North Station.
Duehr has written about the arts for journals including ArtScope, Art New England, Art on Paper, Communication Arts, Frieze, and Public Culture. Currently he manages Bromfield Gallery in Boston's South End.
