The Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition EVE SONNEMAN: DIPTYCH, a comprehensive survey of Sonneman’s lifelong exploration of paired photographs. Through these extraordinary photographs, Sonneman reflects upon the late 19th century motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge, Thomas Eakinsand Etienne Jules Marey and then takes a great leap forward to boldly create a completely new artistic vision- one that pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium.
Eve Sonneman's life long fascination with the photographic diptych began in the late 1960s with her graduate studies at the University of New Mexico. It was there that Sonneman began producing her earliest black and white diptychs, featuring two paired images depicting a sequential event or juxtaposition of objects. By illustrating the passing of an instant of time along with the slight shift of vantage point, Sonneman’s work challenged the viewer to reexamine his or her own perceptions.
By the 1970's Sonneman began to produce the first of her color diptychs. These extremely influential works were heavily exhibited domestically and internationally including in such seminal exhibitions as Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1979 and the traveling exhibition "Counterparts", the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. Sonneman's international reputation grew with the inclusion of images in influential publications such as Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960, and Rosenblum's A World History of Photography.
Eve Sonneman’s work is currently in over 30 museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. She has received numerous grants including two National Endowments and three Polaroid Corporation Grants and has published five books.
