Insites: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art

May 25–Aug 22, 2000

Black and white photograph of an interior room with a rocking chair, framed pictures on the wall, and a floor lamp. The room is overlaid with shadows of trees and the exterior of a building, suggesting a double exposure or reflection effect.
Black and white photograph of an interior room with a rocking chair, framed pictures on the wall, and a floor lamp. The room is overlaid with shadows of trees and the exterior of a building, suggesting a double exposure or reflection effect.

Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura Image of Houses Across the Street in Our Living Room, 1991. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 20 × 23 7/8 in. (50.8 × 60.6 cm) Image: 18 1/16 × 22 7/16 in. (45.9 × 57 cm) Frame: 24 15/16 × 30 7/8 × 1 1/2 in. (63.3 × 78.4 × 3.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Anne and Joel S. Ehrenkranz 2000.19. © Abelardo Morell/ Courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC

Insites: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.

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