Timothy Taylor Gallery presents an exhibition that brings together the work of Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs. All three artists create deeply personal, yet iconic images of America.
Photography is at the core of the exhibition. Although Adams is the only photographer, the question of how photography relates to painting is paramount to Bechtleʼs practice, and Gibbsʼ drawings are painstakingly constructed from his original black and white photographs. All three artists use simple snapshot compositions although this simplicity is deceptive.
Robert Adams was born in New Jersey in 1937 and moved to Colorado as a teenager.
Adams was a professor of English literature for several years before turning his full attention to photography in the mid 1970s. His work is largely concerned with moments of regional transition: the suburbanization of Denver, a changing Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s, and the clearcutting in Oregon in the 1990s. His many books are well-known to those concerned with the American Landscape and Adams has also written a number of critical essays on the art of photography.
Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs
Until March 24, 2012
Timothy Taylor Gallery
15 Carlos Place
London W1K 2EX
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