Art in Context

Art exists in many contexts: art historical writing, the critic’s words, a curator’s interpretation, academia, the marketplace. These photographs look at art in the context of museum spaces and the people who view it. 

Through my camera, I see people react to art with curiosity, admiration, confusion, suspicion, indifference, or the dutiful attention imposing museum galleries can demand. Our relation to the artist’s intent and treatment of materials is clearly complex, but I believe the power of art lies in the two-way dialogue generated between the art piece and attentive viewer. The meaning each of us take away from the exchange is bound by our curiosity, patience, shared conversations, and the moderating effects of light, crowds, noise, phones, and the physical spaces within museums.