Highbrow Magazine - photography exhibits https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/photography-exhibits en Tabitha Soren Showcases Photography Series in Solo Exhibit https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/21656-tabitha-soren-showcases-photography-series-solo-exhibit <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/photography-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Photography &amp; Art</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Wed, 09/21/2022 - 10:20</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1soren.jpg?itok=Z0Jmcftn"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1soren.jpg?itok=Z0Jmcftn" width="480" height="320" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><strong>Jackson Fine Art</strong> is now featuring photographer <strong>Tabitha Soren</strong> with a solo exhibition of three of the artist’s most celebrated series — <strong><em>Running </em></strong>(2011 – 2014), <strong><em>Surface Tension</em></strong> (2013 – 2021), and <strong><em>Relief, </em></strong>an ongoing project that will be making its world premiere at the gallery. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">A visual artist in different domains for over 25 years, Soren has long explored the intersection of psychology, culture, politics, and the body. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">A former reporter for MTV News, ABC News, and NBC News, Soren begins each new series using the methodical investigative tools she used during her time in journalism. Books, research studies, and statistics lay a necessary analytical foundation for the visual ideas she communicates. These data points then merge with her experiences growing up in a military family, spending her youth moving around the world and adjusting to the cultural differences, social structures, and visual cues that came with each relocation.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">A through-line connects the three bodies of work in Jackson Fine Art’s show, evoking the universal paranoia and contemplation of our historical moment. In <strong><em>Running</em></strong>, the earliest of the exhibited series, Soren photographs archetypal figures ambiguously captured in the act of arrival or flight, often in desolate urban landscapes. Though the series ended in 2014, their isolation recalls the quiet dread of the early days of the pandemic and presages an uncertain future. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2soren.jpg" style="height:467px; width:651px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">For <strong><em>Surface Tension</em></strong><em>, </em>which she began in 2014, Soren shines light on a dirty iPad screen, capturing and reimagining the found images underneath with her 8x10 film camera. The resulting body of work, titled with source file names and URLs investigates modern technological mediation, the collision of our human bodies with what Jia Tolentino calls in <em>The New Yorker</em> the “cold and infinite knowledge of the world.” In addition to the exhibition at Jackson Fine Art, <em>Surface Tension</em> has received widespread attention in the press and by museums and is currently on view in four museum exhibitions internationally. A monograph (<em>Surface Tension</em>) was published by RVB Books in September of 2021. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">Finally, <strong><em>Relief</em> </strong>— on view exclusively for the first time — returns to an interest in the overtly tactile, a reaction to the all-encompassing submersion into the digital that <em>Surface Tension</em> required of the artist (and viewer). Soren manipulates beautiful landscapes and formal portraits by cutting, bending, burning, blasting, or shooting the paper they are printed on, removing the screen as interlocutor between hand and image and closing the circle that began with <em>Running </em>by similarly suggesting a future that might closely resemble the past.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3soren.jpg" style="height:489px; width:652px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/4soren.jpg" style="height:662px; width:497px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5soren.jpg" style="height:654px; width:492px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/6soren.jpg" style="height:490px; width:652px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><strong>Highbrow Magazine       </strong></span></span></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tabitha-soren" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">tabitha soren</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/jackson-fine-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">jackson fine art</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/photography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">photography</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/photos" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">photos</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">artists</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/photography-exhibits" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">photography exhibits</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The Editors</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pop field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Popular:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">not popular</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photographer field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Photographer:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">All images courtesy of Jackson Fine Art</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-bot field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Bottom Slider:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">In Slider</div></div></div> Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:20:08 +0000 tara 11341 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/21656-tabitha-soren-showcases-photography-series-solo-exhibit#comments