Nicholas Khan & Richard Selesnick at Ferrin Gallery, Lenox

Nicholas Khan & Richard Selesnick: The Apollo Prophecies
Ferrin Gallery, Lenox 
August 14 - September 12, 2004

Ferrin Gallery partners with Pepper Gallery of Boston to present "The Apollo Prophecies," a show of photography and mixed media by collaborative artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick. In this body of work, the artists create an installation that tells the tale of a lost Edwardian expedition to the moon that is discovered by 1960's astronauts on an Apollo moon expedition. The work was shot and assembled on sets with miniature models, props and live actors. Using the narrative format of Italian Renaissance fresco cycles, the story is revealed in multiple episodes featuring the same characters within single long photographic panels. The exhibition includes a cabinet of Moon Rocks, chemistry apparatus, photos and drawings of the evolution of moon rocks, and absurd spacecraft and spacesuits, which add up to invest the presentation with a dead-pan, mock documentary quality.

Nicholas Kahn/Richard Selesnick's work is in numerous public collections, including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

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