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 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
280 Coup
2012
Inkjet print
18 1/2 by 24 in.  47 by 61 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
Sparrow Road Kill
2013
Inkjet print
11 by 14 in.  27.9 by 35.6 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
Rebuilt Engine
2013
Inkjet print
20 by 24 in.  50.8 by 61 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
Construction, Disputes, Training
2014
Inkjet print
24 by 30 in.  61 by 76.2 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
Murdered Out
2013
Inkjet print
16 by 20 in.  40.6 by 50.8 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
Stop Yield Do Not Enter
2013
Inkjet print
24 by 30 in.  61 by 76.2 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
For Abigail
2014
Inkjet print
18 1/2 by 24 in.  47 by 61 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
Tigers on Cesar Chavez
2011
Inkjet print
18 1/2 by 24 in.  47 by 61 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
Traffic Enforcement Division
2013
Inkjet print
16 by 20 in.  40.6 by 50.8 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

 JUSTINE KURLAND

JUSTINE KURLAND
Watershed
2013
Inkjet print
20 by 24 in.  50.8 by 61 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
 

Press Release

NEW YORK, July 15, 2014 – Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce Justine Kurland: Sincere Auto Care, on view at our Chelsea location from September 4 – October 11, 2014.  This will be the gallery's third solo exhibition of Kurland's work, and will coincide with a group exhibition curated by Justine Kurland at our 1018 Madison Avenue location titled Days Inn. 

Kurland has become known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them.  For her last exhibition at the gallery, The Train is Bound for Glory (2009), Kurland spent two years driving through the expansive American West documenting trains in open vistas and the subculture of train-hoppers and drifters around them.  The 2007 series Of Woman Born, also photographed on the road, features unclothed mothers and their children whom Kurland met and befriended along the way. 

For her most recent series, Kurland returns to a purely documentary style in the tradition of Walker Evans.  Cars, the culture of the mechanic and the open road are Kurland's subjects, drawing on her twelve years of experience with life on the road.  The photographs in Sincere Auto Care balance two competing narratives: the car as an aspirational symbol of freedom, sex, the American Dream, and the bleaker daily life behind the scenes.

With this body of work, Kurland presents a reality where utopia and dystopia are not polar opposites, but rather fold together in an uneasy coexistence.  The formal elegance of the photos and Kurland's eye for teasing romance and beauty out of her subjects gives rise to a sense of detached optimism, or as Kurland herself describes, a place "where beauty is found not because the world is beautiful but because it is beautifully described". 

About Justine Kurland
Justine Kurland was born in 1969 in Warsaw, New York. She received her B.F.A from School of Visual Arts, NY in 1996, and her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1998. Her work has been exhibited extensively at museums and galleries in the U.S. and internationally. Recent museum exhibitions have included "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West" at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; and "Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. She was the focus of a solo exhibition at CEPA in Buffalo, NY, in 2009. Her work is in the public collections of institutions including the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and the ICP, all in New York; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal.


About Mitchell-Innes & Nash
Founded by Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash, who previously headed the worldwide Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art divisions of Sotheby’s, Mitchell-Innes & Nash places exemplary contemporary artists within a historical context, revealing a continuity of ideas and aesthetic virtuosity from the Modern era through the present day.

Mitchell-Innes & Nash’s renowned exhibition program, in both their Madison Avenue and Chelsea locations, fosters excellence within artistic practice, while forging an informed dialogue between emerging and established internationally recognized artists. From acclaimed surveys of 20th century masters, such as Jean Arp, Anthony Caro, Jay DeFeo, Willem de Kooning, Leon Kossoff, Kenneth Noland, Roy Lichtenstein, and Nicolas de Stael, to solo exhibitions of Sarah Braman, Keltie Ferris, Daniel Lefcourt, William Pope L., Virginia Overton, Martha Rosler, and Jessica Stockholder, Mitchell-Innes & Nash has proven expertise in both advancing the careers of emerging artists and maintaining the superior standard set by established artists.

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Listings Information:  Mitchell-Innes & Nash is located at 1018 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side. Tel: 212 744 7400 web: www.miandn.com email: josie@miandn.com

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