Anthea Behm s first solo exhibition with 14a opens in Hamburg
Installation view.
HAMBURG
.- Anthea Behms new work utilizes the page, the table, the wall, the gallery, and the chemical photographic print as grounds to explore intersections between her experience as a contemporary artist and the charged dynamics that inflect the canonical photographs that Edward Weston took of Charis Wilson in the 1930s. Through appropriating some of the pictures Weston made of Charis (his lover, wife, and muse) as well as Wilsons autobiography, bits of correspondence, and other contextual borrows, Behm mines the layers of the relations that brought these historical pictures into being. In doing so, she is using the contemporary lens to draw attention to considerations of power, abuse and harassment often papered over in the standard histories of photography.
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.-Rehs Contemporary is set to present a set of important paintings by maritime master John Stobart in the coming weeks. The works, many of which have been housed in the artists studio for decades, will be split up and unveiled at art fairs on both the east and west coast three canvases are set to make an appearance at the Los Angeles Art Show, which runs from July 29th through August 1st. Then an exceptional display of nine paintings will be on view at the Nantucket Summer Antiques Show, which runs from August 5th through the 9th. John Stobart, widely regarded as the preeminent nautical painter of the 20th & 21st centuries, has spent a lifetime studying and recreating ports, harbors, and the open water. Many of his paintings feature notable ships and vessels placed into their historically accurate settings; the process is a painstaking one, but nevertheless filled with passion. When Stobart was just twelve years old, he w . M