Flesh: Portraits by Gary Schneider

April 26 – September 14, 2008

Gary Schneider. John in Sixteen Parts, 1996 (detail), gelatin silver print, courtesy of the artist

 

South African artist Gary Schneider has long been fascinated with the possibilities of photographic portraiture to explore issues of identity. FLESH includes his John in Sixteen Parts, a set of black-and-white fragments of his partner’s face seen through time; Genetic Self-Portrait, his installation, which employs medical-imaging techniques to depict his own body from the inside out; and Heads and Nudes, where Schneider uses exposures of up to three hours to explore and transform the flesh of friends and family.