Shimon Attie, Vintage Ektacolor Color Photograph Untitled Memory Projection Photo Shimon Attie, 1998

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Shimon Attie (American, b. 1957), Untitled Memory (Projection of Marsha A.) Ektacolor photograph, 1998, from the Untitled Memory series, Gallery … Read more Shimon Attie (American, b. 1957), Untitled Memory (Projection of Marsha A.) Ektacolor photograph, 1998, from the Untitled Memory series, Gallery label to verso, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York matted and framed. Frame dimensions 27 3/4 x 32 1/4 in, photo 25 X 31 Provenance: from the Estate of the late Ron and Anne Dees, Fayetteville, North Carolina Ron and Anne Dees were longtime collectors, lovers, and patrons of art. Starting in the late 1990s, they began their art acquisition and collection, focusing substantially on contemporary art. Their affinity for art went far beyond simply collecting and displaying. Ron served as a docent at the esteemed Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from the late 1990s into the 2000s. In the series "Untitled Memory," Attie revisited his former (and then-deserted) apartment in San Francisco, projecting black-and-white snapshots of his friends and family in spaces that they previously occupied. The desaturated figures have a specter-like appearance and are often depicted in repose or rest, as if in a perpetual state of waiting. The juxtaposition between the projected images and the empty rooms reminds viewers of the fragility of memory, and how sites are activated/changed by presence and absence. Shimon Attie (born Los Angeles in 1957) is an American visual artist. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, The Rome Prize in 2001 and a Visual Artist Fellowship from Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study in 2007. His work spans a variety of media, including photography, site-specific installation, multiple channel immersive video installation, performance, and new media. Much of Attie's practice explores how a wide range of contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place, and identity. Much, though not all, of Attie's work in the 90s dealt with the history of the second world war. He first garnered significant international attention by slide projecting images of past Jewish life onto contemporary locations in Berlin. More recent projects have involved using a range of media to engage local communities to find new ways of representing their history, memory and potential futures. Attie's artworks and interventions are site-specific and immersive in nature, and tend to engage subject matter that is both social, political and psychological. In 2013, Five monographs have been published on Attie's work, which has also been the subject of a number of films, which have aired on PBS, BBC, and ARD. Since receiving his MFA Degree in 1991, Attie has realized approximately 25 major projects in ten countries around the world. Most recently, in 2013-14, Shimon Attie was awarded the Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award in Art. He was born in 1957 and received an MFA in 1991. In 1991 he moved to Germany from his previous home in Northern California, and began to make work initially about Jewish identity and the history of the second world war. His work later evolved to engage broader issues of memory, place and identity more generally. Shimon Attie moved to New York City in 1997. Shimon Attie's work has been extensively reviewed by a wide variety of publications, including features and/or reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, Art Forum, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, and many others. Yasaman Alipour, writing in "The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture", on Shimon Attie's solo exhibition "Facts on the Ground" at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City: Attie achieves something profound: he presents a unique opportunity to contemplate Israel/Palestine without the distraction that is simultaneously a manifestation of the limitations of visual of written language and the possibilities of their alliance." Norman Kleeblatt, writing in a cover story for "Art in America" "Like many other artists in the wake of Marcel Broodthaers, Attie is first and foremost an artist-anthropologist, a practitioner who digs into archives and then re configures his non artistic source material into complicated art works." June 2000 Amei Wallach, writing a feature in the Sunday New York Time's "…like the best of evanescent public projects, from Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "Wrapped Reichstag" to Mr. Attie's "Writing on the Wall," this one will animate real anxieties in real time. Not to mention a sense of wonder." Sept 13, 1998 Exhibitions Selected Solo Exhibitions include: 2017 The Saint Louis Art Museum; 2017 Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Germany; 2016 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY; 2016 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK; 2013 Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; 2012 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY; 2011 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; 2008 de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; 2006 Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; 2005 Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.; 2004 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; 2002 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY; 2001 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA; 2000 Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France; 1999-00 The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA; 1998 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY; 1996 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; 1991 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY; 1995 Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, California; 1995 Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway He has showed in NY at Jack Shainman Gallery. A prestigious gallery that shows Nina Chanel Abney, El Anatsui, Nick Cave, Kerry James Marshall, Carrie Mae Weems and Adi Nes amongst others. He currently shows at Catharine Clark gallery. Selected Group Exhibitions include: 2016/7 The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; 2013 Art Institute of Chicago; 2011 Kunst Museum Bonn; 1994/5, 2000-01 The Museum of Modern Art, NY; 2001, 2005, 2008, 2013 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; 2007 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; 2003 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 2001 Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse In public collections His photographs Almstadtstrasse 43, Berlin (1930). (car parked in front of Hebrew bookstore) (1991) and Mulackstrasse 37, Berlin (1932). (children and tower) (1991) are owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Attie’s work has been widely exhibited and collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among other institutions. Attie has received a number of awards and grants, including the Rome Prize and visual artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. His work has been the subject of three books and a number of films. See less