Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Kim Jones: A Retrospective
A Forest For The Trees
An-My Le: Small Wars
Rebeca Bollinger: Fields
Viewfinder
Juan Laurent, Photographer of Spain
Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: Major Works from the True Collection
General Idea Editions 1967-1995
Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio
Carsten Höller: Neon Circle
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne
(We Decided To Let Them Say "We Are Convinced" Twice. It Was More Convincing That Way.) A Project by Walid Raad
Light Reign, James Turrell SkyspaceViewfinder
North Galleries
July 14, 2007 – December 30, 2007
Since photography’s inception, our world has become an ever more visual culture, where deciphering media images is an increasingly important form of literacy. Viewfinder provocatively suggests that we see photographically and that contemporary artists assimilate the camera’s mechanics as they compose technically and conceptually complex work. Rich in photographs, the exhibition also includes videos, installation, prints and paintings by an array of artists: Uta Barth, Sharon Lockhart, Kori Newkirk, Josiah McElheny, Wolfgang Tillmans, and many others. Works of art are arranged in evocative groupings – Frame, Focus, Exposure, Parallax, Cameraless, and Voyeur – each looking closely at how artists have reconsidered, manipulated, and distorted photography’s conventional forms and practices.
Viewfinder marks the Henry’s 80th anniversary year by highlighting the major works acquired or commissioned by the museum since it expanded in 1997. The Henry is unique in the Pacific Northwest as the sole collecting institution devoted to exhibiting and studying cutting-edge contemporary art.