16 Oct 2008 to 15 Nov 2008
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Bill Henson, Untitled, 2005-2006 Type C colour photograph. Ed, 5 50 x 70 in. 127 x 177.8cm
Bill Henson Opening reception Thursday, October 16, 6 � 8 pm
Robert Miller Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Bill Henson. This show features recent work completed in 2007-2008 and includes a select group of earlier photographs not previously exhibited in New York. In his most recent photographs, Henson juxtaposes images of architecture, landscape and figures that variously evoke power, innocence, history and an existential present.
Bill Henson�s photographs, first exhibited at Robert Miller in 2004, demonstrated the artist�s interest in the duality of nature and artifice, in adolescence, and in the distinction between male and female. These beautiful and mysterious images are characterized by chiaroscuro, translucent skin tones, and jewel-like colors that add an ethereal quality to ambiguous settings.
The 2004 exhibition was followed in 2006 by a show that included work made after Henson�s retrospective Mnemosyne at the National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. This body of work extended Henson�s abiding interest in staging, tableau and a belief in the artifice of theatrical presentation as a profound form. Here as in his previous work, Henson�s figures emerge from and merge into darkness, and shadowy landscapes are shot through with constrained light and contain vestiges of human presence.
Bill Henson�s works are found in many international collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and in every major public collection in Australia.
