Jeff Brouws: Approaching NowhereApril 23–May 30, 2009
Artist talk: Thursday, April 23, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
Reception follows in the gallery.
Jeff Brouws, Franchised Landscape #47, Minnesota
2004. 20" X 40" archival pigment print.
Courtesy Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
2004. 20" X 40" archival pigment print.
Courtesy Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Photographer Jeff Brouws has documented the American
cultural landscape for the past twenty years. A self-styled visual anthropologist, Brouws examines the
growth and construction, entropy and decay, of the man-made landscape. Initially engaged with
what Walker Evans termed the “historical contemporary” (gas stations, motels and
diners) along America's secondary highways, Brouws explores the transience of
everyday places–the franchised landscape of strip malls, homogenized housing tracts and
fast food chains. More recently, he has focused on the decimation of the inner city. His
subjects include abandoned commercial and manufacturing sites and low-income
housing–residual public and private spaces left behind by deindustrialization, failed urban
policy and white flight.
Brouws has published four monographs over the last decade, including most recently, Approaching Nowhere (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). He is represented by the Robert Klein Gallery, Boston; the Robert Mann Gallery, New York; the Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica; and the Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco. Brouws’s work is represented in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard; Princeton University Art Museums; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
All photographs on exhibit are lent courtesy of Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, and the Robert
Mann Gallery, New York. This exhibition and related educational programming are made possible,
in part, with support from the Mesaros Fund for Art.
Brouws has published four monographs over the last decade, including most recently, Approaching Nowhere (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). He is represented by the Robert Klein Gallery, Boston; the Robert Mann Gallery, New York; the Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica; and the Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco. Brouws’s work is represented in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard; Princeton University Art Museums; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
All photographs on exhibit are lent courtesy of Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, and the Robert
Mann Gallery, New York. This exhibition and related educational programming are made possible,
in part, with support from the Mesaros Fund for Art.
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