Zak Krevitt, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Pat O’Malley, Tim Schutsky, Caroline Tompkins
Far From All That Allows
The Photographing of America is a large order — read at all literally, the phrase would be an absurdity,” wrote Robert Frank in his application for a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 1954. Zak Krevitt, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Pat O’Malley, Tim Schutsky, and Caroline Tompkins, six contemporary photographers following in Frank’s footsteps, are well aware of the inherent absurdity of photographing the entire United States. Instead of taking on the task alone, they are going at it together, working in collaboration while honing their individual perspectives. And in the process, they are forming a new wave in American photography.
FAR FROM ALL THAT ALLOWS contains a stunning reproduction of Maida’s 2018 book as well as a record of Maida’s 2020 project, Printed Media x Printed Justice: Exhibition-in-a-Box, in which Maida mailed political posters to influential art institutions including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, when the urgency of the imminent 2020 Presidential election and the limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic made post the most effective way to get the the project in curators’ hands. Maida’s guerilla campaign focused specifically on museums that have a vested interest in Adams’s work, asking them to consider their responsibility engaging their own histories in relationship to the present day. Maida’s posters, which constellate key civil-liberty documents from 1790 through 2018 from the 3 branches of U.S. government with pages from his 2018 book, are now also housed at these museums. Through Maida’s act of mailing his posters and his accompanying call to action, he has revisited and reconsidered history on the personal, institutional, and governmental levels, in tandem with some of today’s most visible cultural institutions.
Molly Matalon
A Tulip in Oakland, 2017
Archival Inkjet Print
6.9375 x 8.5 inch image | 8.5 x 11 inch paper
Edition of 25
Caroline Tompkins
Pull, 2017
Archival Inkjet Print
6.9375 x 8.5 inch image | 8.5 x 11 inch paper
Edition of 25
Pat O/Malley
Peace Ice Sculpture #3, 2018
Archival Inkjet Print
6.0625 x 8.5 inch image | 8.5 x 11 inch paper
Edition of 25
Tim Schutsky
P.P. Creature, 2015
Archival Inkjet Print
6.75 x 8.5 inch image | 8.5 x 11 inch paper
Edition of 25
Pat O’Malley
Blue Eye Pop, 2015
Archival Inkjet Print
6.75 x 8.5 inch image | 8.5 x 11 inch paper
Edition of 25
Tim Schutsky
Blue Wolf, 2017
Archival Inkjet Print
6.75 x 8.5 inch image | 8.5 x 11 inch paper
Edition of 25
ARTISTS CONVERSATION & BOOK SIGNING: SVA THEATRE, NYC
Caroline Tompkins, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Tim Schutsky, Pat O’Malley, Zak Krevitt, and their mentor Joseph Maida, Chair of BFA Photography and Video at the School of Visual Arts discuss their processes of darkroom and digital photography, the group’s approach to American photography and their commitment to photographing their lived experiences.
Limited Edition Box Set
This limited-edition, seven-book set brings together 6 photographers — Zak Krevitt, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Pat O’Malley, Tim Schutsky, and Caroline Tompkins — through the books’ editor, Joseph Maida, their mentor and fellow artist, who taught them as undergraduate students at New York’s School of Visual Arts from 2010-2014. Included in the set is a monographic volume by each photographer edited by Maida as well as a compilation book in which Maida constellates their work in a dynamic visual conversation through a thought-provoking edit and sequence.