The Butler Gallery will present Gulf, an exhibition of previously unseen, large-scale photographs by renowned photographer Jackie Nickerson from April 24 to June 6.
The first of these photographs were made in 2001 in the Sultanate of Oman, which lies on the south east coast of the Arabian Peninsula, an area commonly referred to as the Gulf. Economic prosperity and technological advancement are transforming all forms of cultural activity in this part of the world, evidenced in the interplay of landscape, architecture, commerce, and technology. The juxtaposition of the old and the new generates new social landscapes for communities to navigate.
Nickerson’s images of found objects of the everyday address fundamental concerns of how we choose to live, and how we want to develop our culture. They become metaphors for the dilemma of our modern existence.
Jackie Nickerson is a fine art photographer with an international reputation for photographing people and their environments. In 2008 she was the winner of the AIB prize and she has been short listed for the John Kobel award and nominated for several prestigious prizes such as the Becks Futures Award. Her work is represented in many important public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and Pier 24 in San Francisco.
She is represented by the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea in Italy. She currently lives and works in New York and Ireland.
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