Thursday, April 19, 2007

Recent Acquisition: Gallery Archives

A major collection of photographs documenting Jim Hodges’ monumental sculpture, look and see (2004), has been donated by the photographer, Tim Hailand, to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Archives. The gift serves as an important visual record on the production and initial installation, at Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan, of this bold and powerful work, which now resides within the Gallery’s Sculpture Garden. It also complements additional research resources on the artist Jim Hodges, which form part of the holdings of the Gallery’s G. Robert Strauss, Jr. Memorial Library.

Born in Buffalo in 1965, Tim Hailand currently lives and works in New York City. His work has appeared in Visionaire, The New Yorker, Paper, Playgirl, Frieze, Artforum, W, Time Out London, Dutch, HX, Aspen, and V magazines, and is also in the public collections of The Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Progressive Collection, as well as the private collections of Elton John, Chaka Khan, Rufus Wainwright, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Isaac Mizrahi, Mario Testino, Tracy Chapman, Danielle Steele, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, The Scissor Sisters, Vivienne Westwood, Stevie Nicks, Patti Lupone, and Justin Bond.

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