A new series of photographs by David Gilbert (BFA 2004) is now on view in his third solo exhibition at Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery at 54 Ludlow Street in NYC's The Lower East Side. In this new work, Gilbert frames a world of ephemera and repeated imagery within the quiet of his studio. The exhibition is on view until December 6, hours are Wed to Sun 11am-6pm.
Martha Schwendener writes in her review of the exhibition in The New York Times:
"David Gilbert ... takes the poet’s stance: His work argues for photography as allegorical and ethereal, and he makes images that are like dream worlds that never existed in the first place.
...Books like “The Miracle of Analogy, or The History of Photography, Part 1” and “Photography Is Magic” (both published this year) indicate a move in art away from several decades of photography devoted to revealing the artifice of the medium and its collusion with politics and commerce. (The Guggenheim show is even called “Photo-Poetics.”) Gallery shows such as Mr. Gilbert’s bolster this shift, offering material proof of photography’s mystical and mysterious ways." [read entire review.]
The New Yorker also has a write-up on the show.