OCTOBER 7, 2016 - MARCH 12, 2017
Roe Ethridge: Nearest Neighbor, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, draws from disparate bodies of work made over the past fifteen years. Shifting fluidly and unapologetically between commercial, fine art, and personal photography, Ethridge’s work playfully exploits the ambiguous boundaries separating these distinct photographic modes.

“Nearest neighbor” is a photographic term, a form of interpolation or “resampling” of a digital image. A nearest neighbor is an image with increased resolution based on a lower resolution image.

“Nearest neighbor” also alludes to the personal basis of Ethridge’s work, often lying hidden beneath a polished commercial façade. Not only does the artist frequently use his family and friends as subjects in his photographs, he commonly embeds editorial assignments with objects and associations referring to his personal life. While photographers have typically used their own lives as subject matter for their art, Ethridge flouts distinctions between sentimental and commercial spheres of meaning, suggesting that our lives are an uncomfortable admixture of individual and collective images and experiences.

Roe Ethridge was born in Florida and raised in Atlanta, where he graduated from The Atlanta College of Art in 1995. His work has been shown extensively at venues throughout the world, including MoMA/PS1 (2000); The Barbican Center, London (2001); The Carnegie Museum of Art (2002); The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2005); The Whitney Biennial (2008); The Museum of Modern Art, “New Photography” (2010); and les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2011). He has had solo exhibitions at the Garage, Moscow (2011) and le Consortium, Dijon, France (2013), as well as numerous gallery exhibitions at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Gagosian, Los Angeles; and Greengrassi, London. Ethridge is also the author of numerous photography monographs, such as Rockaway, NY (2008); Le Luxe (2011); Sacrifice Your Body (2014); and Shelter Island(2016).

OPENING RECEPTION
October 7, 2016

Free to the Public