Luke Barber-Smith's tower series is a continuing investigation into the emotional language of architecture. Built from steel, photographic prints and magnets, the towers are a study of color and form, both in relation to a modern structure of larger proportion.
The body of material in Studio Work was developed during Paul Sepuya's 2011-2012 artist residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The project is both a volume of photographs—formal portraits, loose snapshots, still-lifes and details of the his studio space—and an ongoing and variable installation composed of those materials accumulated in the studio, tracing the artist’s occupation and photo-making from the beginning to the end of the residency.
Michel Foucault said: "A whole history remains to be written of spaces – which would at the same time be the history of powers." This body of photographs examines the way in which the landscape was constructed to enforce separation, in the form of separate amenities, during the time of apartheid in South Africa.
The title of the exhibition, Hello from Bertha, refers to a signature image by the artist from 1983-4, which is a “promotional still” for Morrisroe’s Super 8 film of the same name, which itself “was a trashy drag drama based on the eponymous 1946 Tennessee Williams one-act play about a dying, penniless prostitute in a low-class bordello.”[Stuart Comer]
At a young age, it was instilled in Erik Schubert that the mythology of Dale Carnegie’s classic book How to Win Friends and Influence People was one that predicted success and happiness in life. The book was widely published and accepted by business people and corporate planners all over the world, including Schubert’s father.
