Selected Pictures

Robert McCurdy Untitled 2005 Silver gelatin print 20 x 24 inches

Berry-Hill Galleries is pleased to present Robert McCurdy: Still Life, an exhibition comprised of eleven photographs using sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch flower painting as a metaphor for time. This is the artist’s first exhibition of photographs and second solo exhibition at Berry-Hill.

Over the last year, Robert McCurdy has immersed himself in the study of sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch flower painting. While the subject of these photographs appears to be still-life, its significance reaches further. The basic element of time is distorted in McCurdy’s work as he recreates historical painting within the modern format of photography. These exquisitely detailed silver gelatin prints reference a painting tradition which is centuries old, and like their historical counterparts, the essence of these super articulated subjects are only revealed after the viewer indulges the time in looking carefully at each piece. We, therefore, find our selves suspended much like McCurdy’s insects hovering high above a blossom, and caught in mid-flight on the edge of time, simultaneously in the past and present.

Robert McCurdy was born in 1952 in Pennsylvania. He received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and an Arts Fellowship at Yale University.

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