Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Visual Relics (1990-1992)

Andres Serrano
Dante's Inferno
1990
C-print
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Neil Winokur
On the Road
1990
C-print
Denver Art Museum

Eberhard Grames
Coal Gang, Schwerin, GDR
1990
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Ralph Gibson
Four Star Restaurant, Dijon, France
1990
C-print
Brooklyn Museum

Bill Henson
Untitled
ca. 1990
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Jack Pierson
Angel Youth
1990
C-print
Denver Art Museum

Jack Pierson
Palm Springs
1990
C-print
Denver Art Museum

David Teplica
Untitled (the Dworkin Twins)
1990
selenium-toned gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Robert Besanko
Woman on Horse, Tarascon, France
1991
Kodalith print
Yale University Art Gallery

John Pfahl
Niagara Falls, Niagara River, NY
1991
C-print
Denver Art Museum

Laurie Simmons
Magnum Opus II (the Bye-Bye)
1991
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Viva Gibb
Sybil Gibb
1991
hand-colored gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Tom Zetterstrom
Coast Oak
1991
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Jerome Liebling
Woman buying Peaches, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY
1991
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Rennie Ellis
Dancing People, Razor Club
1991
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Petah Coyne
Untitled 735
1992
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

This said, her hideous presence heads for earth.
And from the home of the appalling Furies
and hellish darkness she calls up the dread
Allecto, in whose heart are gruesome wars 
and violence and fraud and injuries:
a monster, hated even by her father,
Pluto, and by her own Tartarean sisters,
so many are the shapes that she takes on,
so fierce her forms, so thick her snakes that swarm
in blackness. 

– Juno summons Allecto to incite new harm, from Book VII of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)