Deborah Bell Photographs presents Out on the Street: The Dining Sheds & Empty Streets of New York, 2020-2024, an exhibition of colour photographs from two series shot in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic by Dutch photographer Wijnanda Deroo. This is the photographer’s second exhibition with the gallery.
Deroo is known for her photographs of interiors in which people are generally absent. Her series from the 1980s and early 2000s, such as Amsterdam Hotels, Artists’ Studios, Atlantic City, Brooklyn Night, Curaçao, Disappearing Houses, Lower East Side, Mobile Homes and New York Eateries, acknowledge human presence without showing a single person.
Wijnanda Deroo was born in the Netherlands in 1955. She graduated in liberal arts from the Arnhem Academy of Fine Arts, where she became a teacher. In 1989, Deroo was awarded an artist residency at MoMA P.S. 1 in Long Island City, NY. Since then she has lived and worked in New York.
Deroo’s photographs have been exhibited worldwide since the early 1980s. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Central Museum in Utrecht, the Gemeente Museum in Amsterdam, the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands and the Jewish Museum in New York, the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection (Bank of America Collection), Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Moderna Museet, Malmö (Sweden), the National Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, New York; Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Noord Brabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands; Printenkabinet, University of Leiden, Netherlands; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among many other public institutions worldwide.
Deborah Bell Photographs : Wijnanda Deroo : Out on the Street : The Dining Sheds & Empty Streets of New York, 2020-2024
Until February 1st, 2025
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