Evan Feldman
Director
efeldman@gpgallery.com
Opening reception: June 28, 5-8pm
Gerald Peters Contemporary is pleased to present an exhibition of recent photographs by Michael Lundgren. On view from June 28 to August 31, the presentation, titled Caldera, reflects the artist’s longstanding exploration of the physical and spiritual relationships between humans and the natural world.
Mining the potential of photographic transformation, Lundgren employs light, illusion and color to engage perception and representation. The resulting works, at once familiar and otherworldly, simultaneously seduce and bewilder, emphasizing our increasing detachment from the Earth. Motivated by an Animist worldview, where power does not reside in one place but rather emanates from all things, the photographs Lundgren states, “conjure an Earth that has memory, that is always changing, always becoming–a world alive, where we ascribe no consciousness.”
Lundgren holds a BFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York and a MFA from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. He is the author of two monographs with Radius Books. Stanley/Barker published his latest book, Geomancy in 2019. Lundgren was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2017. His work resides in esteemed collections, such as the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Fralin Museum, Charlottesville and the Brandts Museum of Photographic Art, Denmark. Most recently his work was included in exhibitions at The Columbus Museum of Art; the Museum of Photography; Seoul; Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco; Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix; Flowers Gallery, London and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Lundgren’s work has been published in numerous magazines and journals such as Foam; Vice; California Sunday; Harpers, among others.
These photographs are motivated by an Animist worldview, where power does not reside in one place but rather emanates from all things. They conjure an Earth that has memory, that is always changing, always becoming––a world alive, where we ascribe no consciousness.
Michael Lundgren
