UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

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photograph by Rodney Smith

Human IN Nature: The Art & Wit Of
​Rodney Smith

Curated by Leslie Smolan
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December 6, 2019 – March 8, 2020
Members Opening & Reception: Friday, December 6, 2019

​Every few years a photographer emerges on the world stage with a unique voice and vision that immediately sets their work apart from anyone else. Cartier Bresson, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Annie Leibovitz, …. each has a style and approach that defines their era and distinguishes them from other talented but more predictable image makers. Rodney Smith’s extraordinary photographs are destined to join the ranks of these masters. ​

Alongside this exhibition, Edward Hopper House is pleased to present intimate glimpses of Hopper’s life captured in photos from the Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive. This exhibition is on view all winter as we celebrate the powerful art of photography.

Thanks to our sponsors for their support of this exhibition: 
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Deborah Kass 4-Color Barbara, 1992 Four panels, acrylic and screen print on canvas Each: 10 x 12 in. (25.3 x 30.5 cm), Overall: 20 x 24 in. (51 x 61 cm)

object lessons

Spring 2020
             
Curated by Carole Perry

Small items store great meaning for us, especially those we discover as children. When objects travel with us to adulthood, in fact or in memory, they retain their power—as symbols, as touchstones for expression, as connectors to our past. The legacy of such items, and their role in developing an artist’s sensibility, is the theme of the exhibition. 
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Barkley L. Hendricks, Black River from the Elgin Road View, 2005 ©BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK

Barkley Hendricks

Summer 2020
             
Curated by Shari Lin Fischberg
 
Recently deceased, Barkley Hendricks will be highlighted by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City. We are currently exploring curatorial and conceptual connections between Hopper and Hendrick’s images where each has leaned into using compositions “figures within the city” and “figure-less in the country.” Jack Shainman will be emphasizing figurative compositions, whereas Edward Hopper House will be widening the view to include Hendricks’ landscapes. Hendricks’ landscapes have a similar single focus and abstracted quality as Hopper’s landscape. Opening a “porthole” to views both sublime and antiseptic, Hendricks’ landscapes hint at a similar aloneness often seen in Hopper’s landscapes. 
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Terry Rosenberg, Untitled, 2018, pastel on paper, 28 x 40 inches, (Woman in the Sun, 1961)

Terry Rosenberg

Autumn 2020
             
Curated by Richard Kendall

Ellsworth Kelly: The River Lithographs

Winter 2020-2021
             
Curated by Carole Perry
 
The (Hudson) River was a major source of inspiration for Edward Hopper in his youth. Ellsworth Kelly’s (1923-2015) interest in the river and the effects of light and shadow, as well the inspiration of Paris, have echoes in Hopper’s work. This exhibition will highlight that connection. 

Adrien Broom: ​Holding Space

Spring 2021
Informed by a rich education in fine and decorative art in Florence and London, Broom’s photographs combine the sensuality of classical painting with the modern techniques of photography. Broom has recently partnered with Historic Artist’s Homes and Studios and The American Writers Museum's affiliate program to create enlivened images of historic artist’s and writer’s homes. With the Mark Twain House, Florence Griswold House, Alice Austen house and soon the Pollock-Krasner house, Edward Hopper’s House is the photographer’s favorite artist. Broom currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.