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Illuminata: Are
You Curious?
An exhitibion of new color photographs at Art
@ Large, NYC
FOCUSING ON THE CONCEPT OF ABANDON
NEW YORK, N.Y. OCTOBER 5, 2004 —
New York City gallery Art @ Large is proud to present
an exhibition of new color photographs by Barbara Nitke.
The work will be featured at the gallery from November
11-17, 2004.
Illuminata: Are You Curious? focuses on the concept
of abandon, continuing Barbara Nitke's exploration of
the alternative sexual world. "The work is about
losing oneself into a place beyond control," she
says, "giving over to something which is fierce,
raw and primitive, in search of a transcendent state."
Acknowledged by critic A. D. Coleman as one of the
most important photographers currently exploring human
sexuality, Barbara Nitke has produced work over the
last two decades that furthers the debate over what
is a fit subject for high art.
As publicly funded organizations continue the trend
of retreating from controversial subjects, mainstream
public acceptance has risen. In a recent issue of Time
Magazine, John Cloud observed that "our astonishment
at Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of leather and
pain 20 years ago now seems quaint..."
Barbara Nitke's monograph Kiss of Fire (Kehrer) was
published in October 2003. She is the current president
of The Camera Club of New York (founded in 1884 by Alfred
Stieglitz) and is on the faculty of School of Visual
Arts in New York. Her work has been the subject of one-woman
exhibitions in New York, New Orleans, Baltimore, Provincetown
and Portland, Maine.
She is also a co-plaintiff with the National Coalition
for Sexual Freedom in challenging John Ashcroft, Attorney
General of the United States of America, and the federal
Communications Decency Act (CDA) which regulates obscenity
on the Internet. The case is expected to go to the U.
S. Supreme Court.
Art @ Large represents neo-erotic and figurative
fine art celebrating the human form, sexuality and human
behavior. The gallery is located in the Hell's Kitchen
neighborhood of New York City in the Art Deco style
historic Film Center Building at 630 Ninth Avenue, between
44-45th Streets Suite 707.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm, EST.
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