Exhibition
September 9 - October 30, 2010

JESSICA BACKHAUS  I Wanted to See the World

Laurence Miller Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the United States of 39 year old Berlin-based photographer Jessica Backhaus.  This ten-year survey features fifty images selected from her four published monographs.

Jesus and the Cherries, published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg in 2005, is a portrait of a rural Polish village virtually frozen in time, where religious iconography and the new refrigerator share equal importance in the living room. Fall 2008 brought two new books: What Still Remains, a series on the objects and interiors we leave behind and the stories they tell about us; and One Day in November, a visual homage to Jessica's long-time friend and mentor, the late Gisèle Freund, who would have turned 100 that December. Her most recent book, I Wanted to See the World, has just been published by Laurence Miller Gallery and Kehrer Verlag on the occasion of her show in New York. This book features forty photographs taken primarily in Venice and Burano, Italy, in which the play of light and color on the surface of rippling waters create marvelous, sensuous, and painterly abstractions.

Jessica Backhaus is an artist who captures nuances of everyday life with a  combination of a powerful sense of color and an emotional sensibility.  Whether it be a jar of cherries, a hot-pink plastic ribbon tied to a pole, or dancing reflections on water,  her camera becomes an extension of her heart as well as her mind.

 

Jessica Backhaus has exhibited widely in Europe, including: the Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin; The Photographers Gallery, London; Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg; Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; and the National Portrait Gallery, London. A selection of her work will be on exhibit at the Margulies Warehouse, Miami during Art Miami and Art Basel Miami.

 


Section 1 of 2

 

Raindrops, 2004
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
24 x 20" c-print, edition 15



A Single Moment, 2004
From the series
What Still Remains
11 x 14" c-print, edition 15

 

 

 

 

Honey, 2008
From the series
One Day in November
14 x 11" c-print, edition 15

Carrots by the Sink, 2004
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
20 x 24" c-print, edition 15


 
Lines, 2007
From the series
One Day in November
14 x 11" c-print, edition 15

 

 
 
Apple, 2007
From the series
What Still Remains
11 x 14" c-print, edition 15
Stamped on verso




Europe in Blue, 2004
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
20 x 24" c-print, edition 15

Greenpoint, 2008
 From the series
One Day in November
14 x 11" c-print, edition 15

 




Tatiana, 2004
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
20 x 24" c-print, edition 15

 


Silence, 2008
From the series
What Still Remains
11 x 14" c-print, edition 15


 

Careless, 2008
From the series
What Still Remains
11 x 14: c-print, edition 15

 

 

 

 

Eternity, 2008
From the series
What Still Remains
14 x 11" c-print, edition 15

 

Purple Laundry, 2004
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
20 x 24" c-print, edition 15

 

Reflection, 2005
From the series
One Day in November
11 x 14" c-print, edition 15

 

 

 

 

Morning, 2007
From the series
One Day in November
11 x 14" c-print, edition 15
 

Dorota, 2003
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
24 x 20" c-print, edition 15

 

 

Pink Pillow, 2002
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
24 x 20" c-print, edition 15

Jadwiga's Kitchen, 2004
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
24 x 20" c-print, edition 15
 

Raspberry Interior, 2004
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
24 x 20" c-print, edition 15

 

 

 
 

Marlon Brando, 2006
From the series
What Still Remains
11 x 14" c-print, edition 15

 
 

Pennsylvania, 2003
From the series
One Day in November
11 x 14" c-print. edition 15


 
Pool, 2004
From the series
One Day in November
11 x 14" c-print, edition 15

 

 

 

 

Blue Spoon, 2004
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
20 x 24" c-print, edition 15

 

 

 


 

Olga, 2002
From the series
Jesus and the Cherries
20 x 24" c-print, edition 15

 


Balloons, 2008
From the series
One Day in November
11 x 14" c-print, edition 15

 

 

Go to Section 2 of 2
Jessica Backhaus
I Wanted to See the World

 

  

Longing for the Unknown, 2008
From the series
What Still Remains
 40 x 30" c-print, edition 8

 

 

 

 
 

Ottawa, 2006
From the series
One Day in November
11 x 14" c-print, edition 15


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