Look Who it Was Random video

PAUL KASMIN GALLERY - Tina Barney

1,025 views · Published 10 May 2015 · 6:36 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2015 · Entertainment

Watch on YouTube

NYC GALLERY OPENING - http://nycgalleryopenings.com

Tina Barney: Four Decades
Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 Tenth Avenue, New York
May 7 - June 20, 2015
Opening reception, May 7, 6 - 8 PM

 

Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Four Decades, a solo 
exhibition of Tina Barney’s photographs spanning the breadth 
of her career, on view at 293 Tenth Avenue from May 7 – June 20, 
2015. This is Barney’s first solo show with the gallery and will 
include a selection of her most iconic works, as well as images 
that have never before been exhibited in the U.S.

Since the early 1980s, Tina Barney’s large-scale photographs have 
laid bare candid moments in the elusive lives of those in the 
upper classes of American and European society.  Through 
Barney’s humanist lens, she consistently demonstrates that life in 
a rarified world is idiosyncratic and spontaneous in its own way. 
The works presented in Four Decades offer a succinct overview 
of Barney’s oeuvre, featuring notable early works such as Mark, 
Amy and Tara, 1983, and The Reception, 1985. Later photographs 
from the acclaimed series “The Europeans” and “Players” continue 
to articulate a narrative about the lives of the wealthy as Barney 
depicts familiar scenes against lushly saturated, opulent 
backdrops allowing the viewer to share in intimate moments. 
Four Decades also highlights one of Barney’s editorial 
masterpieces, The Limo, 2006, as well as works from her series 
“Small Towns,” focusing on the nuances of regional American 
life.

Born in New York City in 1945, Barney turned her concentration 
to photographing in color with a large format view camera in 
1982 – an analogue process she steadfastly continues today. The 
artist was included in the 1987 Whitney Biennial, and significant 
solo exhibitions have since been held at the Museum of Modern 
Art, NY, in 1990; Das Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, in 
1999; The Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 2005; the Museum der 
Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, in 2006; and the First Center for the 
Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, in 2015. Barney’s works are in the 
permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 
NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Los 
Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; and the Museum of Fine 
Arts, Boston, MA, among many others. She currently lives and 
works in New York City and Westerly, Rhode Island. 

For more information, please contact 
[email protected].
For press requests, please contact 
[email protected].

More from this channel