REVIEW: Francesca Woodman in "The New York Times," March 2024
L to R: Images 1-2: Lubow, Arthur. “Francesca Woodman’s Crowning Achievement, and Mystery.” “The New York Times,” 2024. / Quote from “Francesca Woodman’s Crowning Achievement, and Mystery.” / Installation view of “Francesca Woodman,” Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2024. / “Untitled,” c. 1977-78, 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (14.605 x 14.605 cm). Gelatin silver print. / "Lightning” or “Lightning Legs,” 1976, 5 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (13.653 x 13.653 cm). Gelatin silver print. All artworks by Francesca Woodman © Woodman Family Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
In today's New York Times, critic Arthur Lubow sheds light on Blueprint for a Temple (II) (currently on view at Gagosian Gallery), a monumental diazotype collage discovered in summer 2022—41 years after the passing of Francesca Woodman. Characterizing it as “more conceptual and experimental” than its previously known iteration, Blueprint for a Temple (I)—in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—Lubow calls attention to “the Temple” and a range of gelatin silver prints that highlight the classical motifs, architectural references, and tension captured through Woodman’s lens.To read the article, please click on the link in our bio.
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