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Bryan Schutmaat

Grays the Mountain Sends

October 29 to January 11

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Images shown on the site are just a small sample of works available by the artists.

Gold Mine, 2011

Copper City Electric, 2011

Tonopah, 2012

Joe, 2010

Railroad Bridge, 2011

House, 2012

Idle Truck, 2011

Ted, 2011

Buckmaster, 2011

Abandoned House, 2011

Ralph, 2011

Toy Horse, 2011

Abandoned House, 2011

Derek, 2011

Dry Creek, 2011

Chuck, 2010

Wes, 2011

Meyers Ave, 2012

Casey, 2010

Abandoned Schoolhouse, 2012

Ellie, 2012

Tracks, 2011

Gunsmoke, 2012

Paul, 2010

Cemetery, 2012

Front Door, 2012

Red Mountain Mining District, 2011

Jesse, 2011

Ram Under Plexiglass, 2012

Dave, 2012

Broken Car, 2011

Rich, 2012

Turkey, 2012

Billboard, 2012

Trees, 2011

Jake's Café, 2012

Perry, 2011

Mining Road, 2012

Tunnel, 2011

Alpine Lake, 2011

Moorcroft, 2011

Press Release

For Immediate Release (10/9/14):
Bryan Schutmaat: Grays the Mountain Sends
A solo show of color photographs
October 29, to January 11, 2015
The exhibition will open on Wednesday, October 29th with a reception from 6 – 8 p.m.

Bryan Schutmaat’s large format photographs of abandoned mining towns in the American West present us with a portrait of America that is somber, often melancholy in its observations, yet unabashedly romantic. The palette is strong, rich and consistent; the landscapes, interiors and portraits are compositionally uniform. Schutmaat has chosen to plant his flag squarely in the post-documentary school of photography. The photographs were produced from the real world and fold in the complex history of place but were not meant to serve as documents, rather they are very intentionally Schutmaat’s expression of his own artistic sensibility. His photographs depict, among other things, sweeping views of devastated, almost deserted towns, interiors of old homes, and portraits of the myriad of people who still inhabit these areas. One intensely compelling aspect of the work is its clear, unsettling duality; the natural landscape is beautiful yet ravished, the people seem stoic yet doomed. And Schutmaat has carried this duality through to the execution: the photographs are of a vanishing America , a sad, true homage to the old romantic scenes of the American West.

The second edition of Schutmaat’s award winning book of this work is now available. Published by Silas Finch, 2014.

Bryan Schutmaat is an American photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and published in the USA and overseas. He has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Center’s 2013 Galllerist’s Choice Awards, the 2013 Daylight Photo Awards, and the 2011 Carl Crow Memorial Fellowship, among many others. In 2014 Bryan was selected for PDN’s 30 new photographers to watch; in 2013, Dazed Magazine named Bryan one of Paris Photo’s “breakout stars,” and he was chosen as a Flash Forward Emerging Photographer by the Magenta Foundation. His first monograph, Grays the Mountain Sends, was published by the Silas Finch Foundation in 2013 to international critical acclaim. The Washington Post and numerous other publications cited it as one of the best photo-books of 2013, it won the photo-book category in the New York Photo Awards, it was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Award, and it was acquired by libraries at the MoMA, New York and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Bryan holds a BA in history from the University of Houston and an MFA in photography from Hartford Art School. His photos can be found in the permanent collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and numerous private collections. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Artists

  • Barbara Bosworth
  • Dannielle Bowman
  • Caleb Charland
  • Doug DuBois
  • Rahim Fortune
  • Kris Graves
  • Adam Katseff
  • Peter Kayafas
  • Chuck Kelton
  • Paul McDonough
  • Kristine Potter
  • Christopher Rodriguez
  • Sasha Rudensky
  • Alessandra Sanguinetti
  • Bryan Schutmaat

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