Barbara Probst: Exposures

Barbara Probst Exposure #45: Munich, Landshuter Allee, 09.11.06, Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper 2 parts, 40 x 60 cm/16 x 24 inches	Barbara Probst Exposure #58: N.Y.C., 428 Broome Street, 06.05.08, Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper 2 parts: 137 x 92 cm/54 x 36 inches each	Barbara Probst Exposure #71a: N.Y.C., Crosby & Broome Streets, 06 Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper 2 parts 60 x 40 cm/24 x 16 inches each
Barbara Probst Exposure #61: N.Y.C., 555 8th Avenue, 11.07.08, 4: Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper 2 parts, 92 x 137 cm /36 x 54 inches each	Barbara Probst Exposure #63: N.Y.C., 555 8th Avenue, 11.26.08, 5: Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper 2 parts 60 x 60 cm/24 x 24 inches each

A CONTACT 2010 feature exhibition

Opening reception 3 to 6 pm Saturday April 24. Artist present.

Jessica Bradley Art + Projects is pleased to present Barbara Probst’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring an extraordinary twelve-part work along with several other recent pieces.

Over the past decade Probst has become known for her ongoing Exposure series in which she simultaneously triggers the shutters of several cameras to capture the same scene from various viewpoints. The resultant effect of variation and fragmentation is sometimes heightened by the use of backdrops, which are often enlarged stills from well-known movies. Probst deftly cites classic photographic and cinematic genres in sequences of images that suspend a moment, extending the photographic instant over time and space. Her images both confound and reveal the act of looking while drawing upon our collective familiarity with the contemporary image-world.

Barbara Probst lives in New York and was born in Germany where she studied at the Akademie der Bildende Künste, Munich and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Probst’s work achieved wide critical acclaim when it was featured in New Photography 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin; Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; and Oldenburg Kunstverein, Germany. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and several other public and private collections.

Artists:
Barbara Probst