Through Another Lens: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Photography : 7–8 p.m., Thursday, February 2, Fath Auditorium (Cincinnati Art Museum). It will be available soon for purchase from the museum shop in person and online. The catalogue will significantly broaden readers’ understanding of one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century. The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue containing new scholarship by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Curator of Photography Lisa Volpe and a contribution from Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Curator of Fine Arts Ariel Plotek. Despite being one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, no previous exhibition has explored her work as a photographer. Georgia O’Keeffe is the widely admired “Mother of American Modernism” who has long been examined by scholars for her paintings of flowers, skulls, and desert landscapes. The event is free, but reservations are required and can be made here. Museum members are invited to view the exhibition from 5–7 p.m., Thursday, February 2. On social media, use the hashtag #OKeeffePhotography. The exhibition will be free for nonmembers every Thursday evening from 5–8 p.m. ![]() Tickets are $12, with discounted rates for students, children and seniors and can be purchased onsite and online. The exhibition will be on view in the Thomas R. ![]() ![]() The exhibition is generously supported by the Helen E. Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, with the collaboration of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe. On the other hand, audiences arriving out of admiration for O’Keeffe as a painter are coming to know the artist’s vision in an entirely new way, seeing her digest the world more clearly and gaining an understanding of elemental tenets of photographic composition and form through her eyes.” I think those audiences will be surprised by the sophistication and rigor of O’Keeffe’s own exploration of photographic seeing, even as they have to let go of an assumption that she would be making photographs in service of her painting practice. “Photography buffs are learning her relationship with photography was larger and more complicated than we knew. “For me, an exciting facet of this project is how it shifts the paradigm for multiple audiences,” states Cincinnati Art Museum Curator of Photography Nathaniel M. More than 100 photographs and a complementary selection of paintings, drawings and objects from O’Keeffe’s life tell the story of her eloquent use of the camera to pursue her singular artistic vision. In the first major investigation of O’Keeffe’s 30-year engagement with photography, Cincinnati Art Museum visitors can gain a rare, new understanding of the artist. Soon, visitors can see a selection of her photographs at the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer, coming to the Cincinnati Art Museum February 3–May 7, 2023. ![]() What they probably don’t know? O’Keeffe was also a passionate photographer.
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