From the exhibition "Manhattan Sunday"
Photographer Richard Renaldi (BFA '90) will give an artist talk on his current exhibition Manhattan Sunday at the Benrubi Gallery on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 6:00PM. The event will be held in conjunction with the Visual AIDS Project, and Renaldi will discuss the work in a conversation with Visual AIDS Programs Director Alex Fialho.
The talk will be followed by a reception.
Renaldi will also present an artist talk on the same body of work on January 20, 2017 at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY.
Manhattan Sunday is a photographic diary from 2010 to the present. As the name suggests, the pictures were all taken in Manhattan, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, usually after a night out on the town. If hedonism informs these images, from the bare skin and muscled bodies in many of its portraits, to the disco balls and bottles of poppers in its still lifes, it’s a sensuality tempered by reflection. The faces are blissed out, maybe even a bit wan after eight or ten hours of clubbing. Black and white lends a coolness to the scenes, merging day with night, while several long exposures capture the euphoria of the club experience, but also its transience.
Richard Renaldi (b. 1968) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and lives in New York City. He received his BFA in photography from New York University in 1990. Exhibitions of his photographs have been mounted in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. Manhattan Sunday has already garnered praise from a variety of sources, including the Guggenheim Foundation, which awarded Renaldi a fellowship in 2015 based on the project, and the Aperture Foundation, which has published the series in book form. Aperture also published Renaldi’s Touching Strangers in 2014, and Figure and Ground in 2006.