Henry Leutwyler Photographs of Michael Jackson’s items at Foley Gallery, NYC

Exhibition: Henry Leutwyler
Neverland Lost: A Portrait of Michael Jackson
Foley Gallery, New York
Through April 2, 2011

Neverland Lost: A Portrait of Michael Jackson, on view at Foley Gallery in New York, is an exhibition of color photographs by HENRY LEUTWYLER featuring the personal belongings of the late Michael Jackson.

As a portrait photographer, Leutwyler has always been interested in investigating the stories told by the artifacts that make up people’s lives. In 2009, Neverland Ranch was packed and crated in preparation for a public auction of Michael Jackson’s possessions. Leutwyler was sent to California to photograph the iconic studded white glove and spent three days sifting through more than a thousand items. In the end it took a second trip back to the warehouse in April 2009 to complete the entire story.

The photographs, many of which are staged on a simple black background, range from bejeweled costumes to a storage box lid filled with small Wizard of Oz figurines. It’s the simplicity of his artifacts that capture the life of the King of Pop the public never saw. As Leutwyler puts it: "It is said that the Pharaohs built tombs to reveal their lives to future generations. Michael Jackson sacrificed his childhood to the calling of his musical gift. Neverland was the pyramid he constructed to a lost childhood."

Swiss born, HENRY LEUTWYLER is an internationally acclaimed and award winning photographer. A creative force in Paris for a decade, he moved to New York City in 1996, where he lives with his wife and two children. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair and Esquire.

 

 

HENRY LEUTWYLER
NEVERLAND LOST:
A PORTRAIT OF MICHAEL JACKSON
Published by Steidl, 2010
Hardcover, 8 x 11 inches, 96 pages

FOLEY GALLERY
548 W 28th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001

2011 Season at Foley Gallery

Brian Ormond, IIIII, January 11 - February 19, 2011
Henry Leutwyler, Neverland Lost:  A Portrait of Michael Jackson, Feb 24 - April 2, 2011
Hikari Shimoda, April 7 - May 7, 2011
Edward Mapplethorpe, May 12 - June 18, 2011

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Brian Ormond - Foley Gallery, NYC

Exhibition: Brian Ormond, IIIII
Foley Gallery, New York
January 11 - February 19, 2011

Inspired by the natural lines of the urban environment, BRIAN ORMOND creates networks of lines that might resemble delicate systems of order and balance.  Through spontaneous gestures, marks are made to create a movement and flow of energy  choreographing a dance of fine white lines.

Each painted panel is layered with oil, which is then meticulously removed by etching with soft and hard strokes, creating a variety of markings.  Sometimes scratched beyond recognition, Ormond tests the ability of the line to sustain and guide us through the painting.

Muted in their palette of dark and cool tones and energized by frenetic line work, Ormond's paintings both gently soothe in their color and create strong movement with their line.

BRIAN ORMOND studied at NY University, The National academy and the Art Students League.  He has previously had solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. Ormond was born in Cork, Ireland and currently splits his time between there and New York City.

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Jona Frank: High School photographs exhibition at Foley Gallery, New York

Jona Frank:  High School Foley Gallery, New York September 23 -­ November 27, 2004

MICHAEL FOLEY opens Foley Gallery this fall after 15 years of working with notable photography galleries including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery.  He is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography, New School University and the School of Visual Arts where he teaches and lectures on issues in contemporary photography.

In the spirit of photographer August Sander, JONA FRANK sets out to record the social dynamic of the American public high school by examining the adolescent social experience.  For three years, Jona Frank visited high schools across the United States, exploring the layered cliques, stereotypes and personalities that grow during the social experiment of high school.

Innocent, revealing and fresh, this series of color portraits from High School capture a turbulent period of experimentation and role-playing many teenagers confront as they attempt to find their place in the social landscape.  The range of these expressive uniforms that Frank uncovers, from the Cheerleader to the Chess Clubber to the X-File Fan serve as a microcosm for a society at large.

Through her photographs we discover a revealing search for identity and the battle with conformity.

Jona Frank’s portraits can evoke a sense of the familiar, connecting the viewer with the universal high school experience while evincing the freshness and individuality of today’s teenager.  The result is a perpetual, timeless and oddly recognizable return to high school.

Coinciding with her exhibition, Arenas Street Publishing will release the book of JONA FRANK’s photographs HIGH SCHOOL with a special forward by Gus Van Sant.

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