Todd Hido: New Photographs
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
July 7 - September 1, 2001
The STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY presents an exhibition of new photographs by TODD HIDO.
Todd Hido's exterior scenes reflect the artist's interest in the themes of home, family, and memory. His photographs, taken at night, depict anonymous suburban dwellings with their windows glowing in the soft darkness. Using only available light and long exposures, he creates highly detailed and richly saturated images. Throughout these color images there is an unsettling feeling of isolation and unease. Hido captures a haunting suburbia through the absence of people and the careful modulation of light and color. They allude to imagined domestic narratives taking place inside which rely on the viewer to complete. Hido is not passing judgements on these domestic scenes but rather acts as a detached voyeur.
Todd Hido's first book, "House Hunting", an over-sized color monograph combining both his exterior night shots and interior images of foreclosed homes, was recently published by Nazraeli Press.
TODD HIDO (b.1968, Kent, OH) received his M.F.A. with High Distinction from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1996 and his B.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. His work was recently included in "Immodest Gazes" at the Fundacio "la Caixa" in Barcelona and "Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Todd Hido will be exhibiting this Fall at Julie Saul Gallery in New York, and at Inman Gallery in Houston.
STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY
49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
www.wirtzgallery.com
