Akewalk 1 serie Nudes
Artist
Avery Danziger
Exhibition
In his Harlem Valley Project, Avery Danziger captures the paradoxical beauty of a place in ruin—where man-made order slowly gives way to organic decay. Far from romanticizing abandonment, Danziger’s photographs are precise visual studies that extract abstract and formal elegance from environments steeped in disorder. Donning a HazMat suit to access the hazardous interiors of the long-abandoned Harlem Valley psychiatric complex, the artist composes what he calls “portraits”—carefully edited images that reveal what is present yet often hidden. Here, emotional history is secondary to the quiet tension between entropy and structure, presence and erasure.
Main features
- Title: Akewalk 1 serie Nudes
- Technical: Photography
- Dimensions: 31,50x39,37 inches
- Year: 2020
- Price: 250 €
Description of the work
The artwork Akewalk 1 de la sèrie Nudes by the artist Avery Danziger
Technique: Photography.
Measures: 33 x 48 cm
Avery Danziger
Nudes
The Nudes series brings together photographs taken by Avery Danziger from 1978 to the present day. The subjects are not professional models but friends and collaborators who shared with the artist a desire to explore light, form, and the presence of the human body.
Although many of these images might appear digitally manipulated or created through multiple exposures, Danziger works with a purely analog method based on a single long exposure. During this process, the artist uses a flashlight to trace the body’s form in multiple positions within the same frame.
The result is an ethereal and luminous rendering in which the body becomes a trace of light and movement — suspended between presence and absence. Nudes is a meditation on trust, intimacy, and the painterly gesture that light can draw upon the skin.
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Avery Danziger — Artist’s Statement
These photographs were taken from 1978 until the present day. These are not models, they are friends who asked that I photograph them, or were enlisted to work with me to create one of these series.
Although many of these images appear to be manipulated in Photoshop or multiple exposures, they are actually single exposures with the subjects stroked with a flashlight to capture their form in multiple locations in the frame during a single time exposure.
More information about the artwork Akewalk 1 de la sèrie Nudes by the artist Avery Danziger at our Instagram@galeriaespaicavallers
Artist biography
Avery Danziger
The artist Avery Danziger (1953 Chapel Hill, NC)
Photographer Avery Danziger captures the beauty of industrial spaces and abandoned architecture with a poetic and timeless gaze.
COLLECTIONS, EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS, REPRESENTATION
Photographs In Museum Collections
Houston Museum of Fine Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography
Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, MO
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts (SECCA)
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Photographs In Private Collections
Agnes Gund
Melva Bucksbaum & Ray Learsy
Photographs In Corporate Collections
American Telephone and Telegraph
R.J. Reynolds Industries
Security Pacific National Bank
Shriner’s Children Hospital
Wachovia Bank
Wells Fargo Bank
World Savings Bank
Fellowships:
Martha Boschen Porter Fund – Artist Fellowship
awarded by the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. — 2013
National Endowment To The Arts – Visiting Artist Workshop stipend
awarded by the Light Factory Gallery in Charlotte, N.C. — 1978
National Endowment To the Arts – Photographers Fellowship — 1979
juried by: Leland Rice, Eve Sonnabend, Bart Parker, Evon Streetman and Carol Kismaric
Awards:
Px3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris
International Juried Group show – Honorable Mention — 2007
Missouri 50 State Fair Exhibition
Juried group show – Ist Place — $1,000 cash award — 2006
Spectra 04 National Photography Triennial –Silvermine Gallery
New Canaan, CT Group show – 2nd place – 2004
Juror – Barbara Hitchcock – Collection Committee – Harvard University Art Museum
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North Carolina Museum Of Art – 39th Annual Artist’s Exhibition
Juried group show – Purchase award ; curated by:
John Bullard, director, New Orleans Museum ;
Gudmond Vigtel, Director High Museum of Art ;
Tracy Atkinson, Director Milwaukee Art Center
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts (SECCA)
46th Annual Southeastern Artists Competition
Juried group show – Purchase Award ; curated by:
Gene Thornton, photographic editor, New York Times
R.J. Reynolds Industries, Photography Competition
Juried group show – Purchase Award – $1,000 cash award – curated by:
John Szarkowski, Director of Photography – MoMA- NYC
James Alinder, Director – Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, Ca.
Robert Doherty, Director – George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
Gallery Representation:
Atrium Gallery — St Louis , MO
Sherry Leedy Fine Art — Kansas City, MO
Donna Rogers Fine Art – Houston, TX
Selected Exhibitions:
2019 Moonlight Requiem – Photographs from Jockey’s Ridge, NC and Cabo de Gata, Spain
Through This Lens Gallery, Durham, NC
One Person Show, May 2019
2015
“The Gate To Hell” Photographs from the Derweza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan
The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
One Person Show – April.2015
“Seeking Permanence” selections from The Harlem Valley / Wingdale Project
Sherry Leedy Fine Arts – Kansas City, MO
One person show – June 2015
2014
“The Gate To Hell” Photographs from the Derweza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan
The White Gallery, Lakeville, CT
One Person Show – Nov.2014
More information on the Artist Avery Danziger at our Instagram @galeriaespaicavallers