This show was quite different to say the least. It has an abundance in collage and photograms rather than straight photography. This seems to be the direction photography is going these days. There was only one specific series that I absolutely loved: Walead Beshty and the other artist which caught my attention was Sara VanDerBeek's compositions. Beshty's floor to ceiling prints draw you into this work consisting primarily of neon shapes composed through overlapping lines. I saw his work in the past at Harris Lieberman Gallery in the LES, but it wasn't the same series. These ones are stronger. Sarah VanDerBeek's compositions, were interesting as they were a mix between straight photography and abstract photography. I didn't love the entire compositions, but found the piece within very attractive.
Daniel Gordon's work did absolutely nothing to me. Rather, I found it quite disturbing. It made me think about a killer cutting up body parts and reassembling them to create his perfect person. Sterling Ruby's series as well didn't do anything for me. They reminded me of punk art work. The colors and eery sketches gave the work this gloomy death like feel.
All in all the show was not much of a success in my opinion. I spent more time looking around the permanent collection than the two rooms alloted to MoMA's New Photography show.
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