ELLIPTICAL by LOIS CONNER
"During the pandemic, I started making circular pictures. Suspended in space is how I feel, and the circle takes me there, with its telescope-like view and the lack of hard edge. The intensity of this time and this format have made me work as if it is critical to my existence." Lois Conner, New York Times Art & Design. Published April 2, 2020. Updated Sept. 21, 2021.
Elliptical was published in conjunction with Flat Earth, a solo exhibition by artist Lois Conner, showcasing a selection of twenty-three multi-panel landscapes and seventeen vintage platinum prints, curated by Leandro Villaro and presented at Penumbra Foundation in New York City from November 30, 2021 to March 31, 2022.
Edition: 200. Copies 1-20 include an 8x10in silver gelatin fiber based photograph, printed, numbered and signed by the artist for this publication.
Size: 8x10” (closed). 10x64” (opened).
Leporello | Duotone offset printing | 13 B&W images | Gray board covers
Printed by Penumbra Foundation. February, 2022.
All proceeds go toward supporting our publishing programming.
Lois Conner is known for her large-scale panoramic photographs. She has received numerous grants, exhibits widely, and her work is featured in many esteemed publications. Most recently, Conner received the Pollock-Krasner Award for Artists (2020) and the Robert Rosenkranz Fellowship for Photography (2019). She was awarded the Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship (2007), and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1984), the New York State Council on the Arts (1983) and the National Endowment of the Arts (1979). Conner’s work is currently on view in 150 years of Women at Yale University Art Gallery and is part of the traveling exhibition Civilization, The Way We Live Now in Australia, New Zealand and France (2020-2021). She exhibited in the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (2020). Conner has had numerous solo shows in Asia and the United States. Her work was featured in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012 and 2017) and in the exhibition Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2010). Recent books include Lotus, Trees and the Jiangnan Landscape, Hangzhou (2019), A Long View, Shanghai Center of Photography (2018), and Lotus Leaves, Wairarapa Academy, New Zealand (2018). Conner has been teaching photography for over thirty-five years and is currently a visiting artist at Fordham University. She taught at the Yale University School of Art for more than a decade, and at other institutions including Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, Cooper Union, Bard College, Stanford University, the New School, the School of Visual Arts and the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China.
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