The Artist's Touch

A Photograph of Mid-Manhattan with the Area between 

The Plaza, Ansonia, Biltmore and Carlyle Hotels Removed

Sol LeWitt

1978

Cut gelatin silver print

A wonderful gallery in San Francisco that celebrates photographic art, The Fraenkel Gallery, is currently running an exhibition of photography by Sol LeWitt. LeWitt was a pioneer of Minimalist and Conceptual Art in the post-war era, becoming world renowned for his white “structures” (his term for sculptures), and his large, colorful wall drawings and murals which played with the ideas of irregularity and sequences of line and color, bending and stretching the imagination with their size.

However, through another medium, photography, LeWitt was able to take his ideas of Minimalism one step further by cutting, cropping and manipulating many of his images. The Fraenkel Gallery’s exhibition titled: Sol LeWitt: Photographic Works 1968-2004, bring these images in an accessible way, for viewers to see the the artist’s influence at work. LeWitt’s body of photographic works incorporate his overall notion of striving to open the eyes and mind of the viewers to see more than the just the lines he created, but the process and the people whom helped him achieve these aesthetics.

 The exhibition at the Fraenkel Gallery is on display through April 30^th .