Photographs by Marcel Sternberger & Matthew Morrocco
November 19, 2024 - January 12, 2025
Opening Reception: November 19, 6 pm
10 West 18th St., 7th Floor New York, NY
Forging Portraiture: A Contemporary Look at Modern Photography opens tomorrow, November 19! I hope you will join us for an opening reception from 6-8 PM, where we'll celebrate the work of Marcel Sternberger and Matthew Morrocco and enjoy a variety of food and drink. (I would especially like to thank Two Boots Pizza for their support of this event.)
Forging Portraiture compares the work of Marcel Sternberger and the contemporary photographer Matthew Morrocco, who draws from Sternberger’s iconic psychological portraits to create a personal visual legacy in his Mirror Portraits. Inspired by Sternberger's portraits of 20th-century icons like FDR, Frida Kahlo, and Einstein, Morrocco photographed his own friends and colleagues – many of them luminaries in the New York art world such as Salman Toor, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Kimberly Drew.
In Sternberger’s work, we see the great women and men of history as real people, with thoughts and feelings; in Morrocco’s images we see a new generation of people shaping culture come to life. The exhibition compares the work of artists separated by nearly 80 years and asks viewers to think carefully about what a photographic legacy means today.