Event

Lecture: Richard Misrach

In the selection of photographs chosen for the Henry's presentation of Richard Misrach: On the Beach, Misrach directly references Nevil Shute's 1957 Cold War novel and the 1959 film based on this novel, from which he took the exhibition title. These twenty large-scale photographs, shot from a hotel room adjacent to the beach, situate and then abandon the viewer in the vastness of the sea or sand, devoid of horizon line or point of reference.

In addition to the twenty traveling works, the Henry will present several of Misrach's early gelatin silver prints, selections from the Desert Cantos series, including three sky pieces from the Henrys collection, and new photographs from the artist's most recent body of work. These additions will complement the touring photographs and will present to viewers a broad spectrum of the artist's oeuvre.