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Gina Osterloh on Peter Hujar

The Slow Practice of Looking

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Mar 20, 2019 1:00 PM

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In this gallery talk with artist and Ohio State Assistant Professor Gina Osterloh, we’ll engage in the practice of slow, careful looking with photographer Peter Hujar’s timeless, pared-down compositions rendered in lush silver gelatin prints.

As showcased in Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, it’s clear that Hujar never wanted “likeness” to drive the order of his photographs in exhibitions. He wanted difference—varied sequences of portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes. And through this difference he makes us want to look. In this session we’ll examine why his images arrest us, stop us, and rattle us, and how this urgency, intimacy, and his knowing of the subject is felt through the photographs on view.

More about the speaker

Gina Osterloh is an assistant professor in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University. Her photography, film, and performance-based artwork depicts mark-making and her own body traversing, tracing, and puncturing photographic space in a quest to interrogate the boundaries of identity. Her recent exhibitions include the solo presentation ZONES at Silverlens in Manila, Philippines, as well as the group exhibitions Multiply, Identify, Her at the International Center of Photography in New York City and Past as Present: Capturing and Archiving the Female Experience at the University of Cincinnati DAAP Reed Gallery. Osterloh's work has been featured and reviewed in such periodicals the New Yorker, Art in America, and Artforum, as well as in the publications Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora and Energy Charge: Connecting with Ana Mendieta.