Lee Friedlander at Texas Gallery, Houston - Xmas in Texas

Lee Friedlander: Xmas in Texas 
Texas Gallery, Houston
December 14, 2004 – January 15, 2005

“He was not unlike a traveler walking into a landscape which may prove mirage.”(Patrick White, “Riders in the Chariot”)

Texas Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs by Lee Friedlander – 40 black and white photographs taken in west Texas between 1997 and 2004. Lee Friedlander has been working periodically in Texas since the early 1970’s, focusing on urban settings, the big thicket and desert landscapes. This new group of photographs has two themes: buildings and streets in towns of far west Texas, such as Alpine and Marfa, which focus on Christmas decorations, and from which derives the title of the show; and classic images of landscape: the highland deserts and mountains of Big Bend and the Davis Mountains. Lee Friedlander’s photos are distinguished by a compositional technique of formal organization and complex pattern. Using a square format camera with a flash, the artist achieves clarity with a great depth of field. Lee Friedlander’s photos bring to mind the beautiful intelligence of the works of Walker Evans and Eugene Atget.

Lee Friedlander lives in upstate New York, is a McArthur Fellow and he will have a retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, NY in June 2005. His most recent publications include “Sticks and Stones, Architectural America” (2004), “Family” (2004), and “Stems” (2003).

TEXAS GALLERY
2012 Peden, Houston, TX 77019
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