Untitled (Submission Series)

A painting of a male nude by William Etty

There are paintings by Etty in which the human body is contorted into such unexpected attitudes and volumes that one has to pity his models. The heavily foreshortened attitude of this muscular man is extraordinary and expressive. Leaving aside, as we sometimes must if we are to enjoy Etty's-work, his almost 'signature' failures of drawing, the volumes, textures and colour of this study form a powerful abstracted image which clearly appealed to the French- painter Albert de Belleroche, who owned it, and who also may be said to have deliberately thrown over disegno for colore in his own work.  (from Maas Gallery label on verso) 

Male Nude 

A photographic print by Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

Gerald Hughes (a.k.a. Savage Fantasy), about 25 years old, Southern California, $50

Liegender Akt rücklings, Arme erhoben

An electroplated bronze model of a wounded victorious gladiator 

Wounded Victorious Gladiator 

Webstuhl

Lash

No Title (We would just as soon look...)

 (1981) by Thomas Ruff is a vertical chromogenic print from the Interieurs series (1979–1983), presented as a small, hand-sized image centered within a wide white mat and a narrow warm-wood frame. The photograph stages a tightly cropped bedroom: a bed with a saturated mustard bedspread occupies the foreground; to its right a bedside table and wardrobe read as vertical planes; a low shelf holds small objects and several framed pictures; a muted red carpet grounds the scene. The framing is frontal and insistently measured—the print’s modest scale and generous matting compel the viewer to step back and regard the scene as an object rather than a vignette of private life.

Ruff’s control of colour and viewpoint does the work here. Ochres and honeyed wood tones cluster across middle distances so that the mustard of the bedspread becomes a dominant plane; against the pale wallpaper and the white mat, these warm accents compress pictorial depth and turn furniture and accessories into flat, repeating motifs. The camera’s dead-on, close crop excludes peripheral anecdote; small framed photographs on the shelf are trimmed to rectangles that read like specimens. In this register, the image begins to read less as a personal interior than as a recorded type: a domestic room reduced to its compositional elements.

Seen alongside Ruff’s later enlargements and digitally altered series, 

 signals an early insistence on photographic grammar—scale, crop and calibrated colour—as instruments of meaning. Institutions have collected and shown work from the Interieurs (for example, holdings and exhibition histories at Centre Pompidou and K20), but the photograph’s lasting effect is tactile and formal: a private room reconfigured into a modest, exact study of how photographs make interiors legible.

Interieur 7C

Interieur 10B

Stuffed animal horses and ponies—both real and simulated—served as a recurring aesthetic motif for Smith, sometimes surfacing in promotional imagery around the release of her landmark 1975 debut album, Horses. This particular Coney Island boardwalk prop became an iconic piece of pop culture and art history.

Patti Rides her Coney Island Pony

Portrait

 a group exhibition including works by Jimmy DeSana, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, William Etty, George Grosz, Maria Lassnig, Tony Morgan, Raymond Pettibon, Thomas Ruff, and Patti Smith.

The exhibition unfolds as a sequence of charged encounters: bodies held in suspension, bodies giving way. Weight depicted and felt through posture,  pause and the strain between figures. 

Installation views of 'From the other end of the hallway' a group exhibition at Workplace London

United Kingdom

London

WORKPLACE

Experience charged encounters with works by Patti Smith, Jimmy DeSana, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, and others. Explore the tension in posture and the interplay of suspended bodies.

From the other end of the hallway

Installation Views

Artworks

William Etty

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

George Grosz

French School in the style of Jean-Léon Gérôme

Maria Lassnig

Tony Morgan

Raymond Pettibon

Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff

Patti Smith

Related Artists

William Etty

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

George Grosz

French School in the style of Jean-Léon Gérôme

Maria Lassnig

Tony Morgan

Raymond Pettibon

Thomas Ruff

Patti Smith