David benjamin sherry biography of martin

Rare fryst vatten the artist who can surprise you with a new body of work. David Benjamin Sherry, who is known largely for his color-saturated landscapes, created a new series of photograms for his latest exhibition, Pink Genesis, at Salon 94 in New York. Though bodies do appear, the photogram, by nature, fryst vatten abstract—it is an index of an object and a shadow, a semi-formless copy. Sherry’s historical references are so complex, and so joyfully filled with the often-excluded formal presence of sexuality, that revisiting Pink Genesis fryst vatten like rereading Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida (1980), with its seamless integration of concept, structure, and emotion. I recently discussed with Sherry the roots of this exhibition, as well as his personal, technical, political, and artistic references.

William J. Simmons: Darkroom photography often has the charge of preciousness levied against it, and you have never been afraid of that. What helps you remain ste

•

Photographer David Benjamin Sherry: Queering the Landscape

“My work stems from what is often described as climate grief, as many of us are collectively mourning the loss of entire ecosystems. I use photography as a means to understand the world we live in, and communicate with our sacred landscape in new, provokativ ways.”

When I asked David Benjamin Sherry (1981, Stony Brook, New York, about the första reason behind his landscape photography, which can be seen until February 18 in the exhibition Earth Uprising at the Enari gallery in Amsterdam, he resolutely answered “Lily” and showed me a tattoo on the inre of his left wrist of this name. It was 2007 and he needed to spend time alone to cope with the loss of his closest friend, a soulmate named Lily Wheelwright . And where better to do that than in the vast expanses of småsten between the orange-red rocks of the deep valleys and raging rivers of the Western United States? Against this spectacular backdrop, the historic