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JULIE MACK, ‘PRIVATE COLLECTION III’ AT LAURENCE MILLER GALLERY MAY 10

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NEW YORK CITY — “On the Move” is emerging artist Julie Mack’s first solo exhibition. The show is a study of the artist’s immediate family, a typical American family of five that has begun to climb the socioeconomic ladder.

Combining wit and sensuous color, Mack has created a body of work sharing the awkward moments that her family experiences before her large-format camera with the long exposures.

Mack brings sense of abstraction and color to these large-scale deadpan views. Whether it is the whole family in the car leaving the garage, or her brothers showing off their biceps, Mack’s prints show that despite increasing wealth and possessions, family dynamics remain the same.

“Private Collections III: Highlights from the Estate of Peter Berg” is the third exhibition in an ongoing series devoted to a single collector’s vision.

Berg was an artist with an awareness of art history who understood how photography fit into the large art-making context within the first half of the Twentieth Century. This knowledge, combined with a feel for abstraction, enabled Berg to focus on the key artists using photography to express the radical new visual ideas of that period.

The exhibition features 15 rare vintage works of modern photography made between the world wars, with a strong emphasis on abstract artists, including Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, Germaine Krull, Franz Roh, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Ivo Pannaggi and Maurice Tabard.

Two unusual works by Andre Kertesz will be featured: seahorses from 1932, reminiscent of his surreal nude distortions, and a remarkable 1939 bird’s-eye view taken for Life magazine of New York’s harbormaster shouting instructions through a megaphone from a balcony to the ships docking below.

The gallery is at 20 West 57th Street. For information, www.laurencemillergallery.com or 212-397-3930.