Intimate: David Kimball Anderson & James Lartin
January 9 – February 23, 2020
About The Exhibition
HARVEY PRESTON GALLERY is pleased to present INTIMATE a two-person exhibition of new works by sculptor David Kimball Anderson and photographer James Lartin.
Both artists use traditional formats — Anderson, the still life and Lartin, portraiture — to capture a precise moment in time. Through a gaze or gesture, they are able to find and distill the essence of beauty in their subjects that speaks to a greater, (Universal) conversation about humanity and life.
Exhibition Images
About The Artists
DAVID KIMBALL ANDERSON
David Kimball Anderson, born in Los Angeles in 1946, has been a practicing studio artist since 1969. Anderson attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the late sixties and focused studies with Bruce Nauman and James Reineking. Anderson is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, a John Michael Kohler Arts in Industry Residency Grant and he was the sole recipient of the SECA Award from the San Francisco museum of Modern Art in 1973. Anderson began his exhibition career with a one-person show at the Berkeley Art Center in 1972 followed by another solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1973. In 1975 he was included in the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His first solo exhibition in New York occurred in 1978 with the Braunstein/Thorpe/Kind collective space at 139 Spring Street. Anderson, now 74 years of age, continues to exhibit regularly both nationally and internationally.
JAMES LARTIN
This is how it begins:
“Updating my photography portfolio, free portraits using a medium format camera in small apt. studio, backdrops/strobes. Ask for a link to see my work; all ages and body types welcome. Nude preferred but not mandatory.”
Intimate Strangers is a series of male portraits taken of subjects Lartin meets through a “hookup” app online. Instead of a sexual experience, the artist asks the men to pose for him in his small studio apartment.
Within a relatively short photo session, generally lasting 2-3 hours, the relationship between the subject and photographer undergoes an evolution — out of a transaction between two parties a friendship forms, an intimacy develops, and within that space the photograph is born.