“EACH INDIVIDUAL PICTURE HAS ITS OWN CHALLENGES THAT ARE UNIQUE TO IT. THE DETAILS, SCENE AND SETTING WITHIN IT ARE ALL NEW. THE MOMENTS ARE NEW. THE GESTURES ARE NEW. THE WORK AS A WHOLE WILL EVOLVE AND CHANGE NATURALLY ON ITS OWN OVER TIME.”
Robert Klein Gallery is pleased to present a selection of our favorite available works by renowned American photographer Julie Blackmon, featuring her newest summer releases.
Often focusing on scenes of children, family, and friends, Julie Blackmon is both humorous and serene, yet manages to portray poignancy and a fascination with the everyday. Her photographs are a combination of pop phenomena, consumer culture, and social satire.
Blackmon was born in 1966 in Springfield, Missouri, where she currently lives and works. Studying art at Misssouri State University, she became interested in the photography of Sally Mann and Diane Arbus. Leaving college before finishing her degree, years later Blackmon turned to photography as a mother of three. She used her domestic experiences as a focus of her early work, while also pulling from 17th-century tavern scenes portrayed by Dutch and Flemish painters.
Blackmon's photographs have been shown in a number of exhibitions and can be found in the permanent collections such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, NY; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; and The Walt Disney Corporation, among others. She has been included in exhibitions at institutions including The Fotografiska Museum, New York, NY; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, NH; Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover DE; and Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX.
