NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery presents Like Ice in the Sunshine, our first one-person exhibition by Australian artist Simone Rosenbauer. Her latest series, these pictures are themselves the visual essence of summer. In each work, a Popsicle is centered on a different DayGlo colored background. The pictures are sugary pop confections that seduce with their heightened artificial color. All the components of commercial product photography are in place, but this ideal is literally dissolving before our eyes. With this one simple motif, Rosenbauer deftly evokes both the enticement, and the elusiveness, of summer.
Originally from Germany, internationally acclaimed artist Simone is currently based in Sydney and was recently featured in the reGeneration²: tomorrow’s photographers today. She has won and been selceted for numerous national and international awards. Her work has been showcased in USA, Europe, Australia, Russia, Asia and Africa at places such as Aperture Gallery (NYC), Expo Chicago, Paris Photo, Laurence Miller Gallery (NYC), AIPAD (NYC), Musée d’Elysée (Switzerland), Les Rencontre d’Arles (France), Flash Forward Festival (Canada), Art Miami (USA) and PhotoSpring Festival Beijing (China).
Rosenbauer’s work is held in various public and private collections. She studied Photography at University of Applied Sciences Dortmund (Germany) where she received her MA in 2006. In 2008 she received the European Endeavour Award from the Australian Government to study for her MFA (Research) in photography at the University of New South Wales, which she completed in 2010. She currently works as a Photography lecturer at University of Technology and University of New South Wales in Sydney. She is represented by Laurence Miller Gallery (NYC) and M Contemporary (Sydney).
Complementing Simone Rosenbauer’s Popsicles is a group exhibition that explores the theme of HOT and COLD. Ray Metzker’s Sand Creatures capture sunbathers melting on their blankets. Helen Levitt’s children reveal the human drama that spilled out onto the stoops and sidewalks of New York before the invention of air-conditioning. Denis Darzacq’s and Anna Anna Lüneman’s collaborative series “Double Mix” merges the coolness of digital with the heat of baked clay. The show also includes work by Mauro Altamura, Michael Becotte, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Miguel Angel Garcia, David Graham, Fred Herzog, Chris Rauschenberg, Toshio Shibata and others.
