To mark the launch of its new gallery space, Bruce Silverstein Gallery has introduced Photographer as Sculptor, Sculptor as Photographer, an exhibition that bridges the divide between two distinct yet connected mediums. Spanning many works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this ambitious show brings together pieces by some of the most influential sculptors and photographers in modern art history. The exhibition includes iconic names such as Constantin Brâncuși, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin, and David Smith, paired alongside photographic visionaries like Bernd and Hilla Becher, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and Barbara Morgan.
This artistic pairing invites the viewer to reconsider long-standing assumptions about photography and sculpture, positioning them instead as symbiotic practices that shape the human perception of form and materiality. As photographs adopt sculptural techniques and sculptures rely on photography to extend their presence, the exhibition makes a case for the photograph being a transformative object in its own right.
