Jeff Brouws – Just About Everything, Someplace Else

Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to announce our return to Chelsea, the vibrant art community where we first relocated to in 1999. For the inaugural exhibition in our new gallery space, and in celebration of our 25+ year relationship with artist Jeff Brouws, Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to announce “Jeff Brouws: Just About Everything, Someplace Else”. This exhibition will showcase a selection of Brouws’s iconic photographs alongside several previously unseen works.

In “Just About Everything, Someplace Else”, Jeff Brouws brings together images that act as artifacts of history while continuing to speak to themes that resonant today: a sense of abandonment, loneliness, alienation, and the influence of technological change, in essence all suggestive of an American Dream that isn’t quite what it seems. In this show Brouws incorporates photographs from several series including his Ed Ruscha-influenced “Language in the the Landscape”, the Hopperesque images from the series “Approaching Nowhere”, and the discarded and franchised elements of our collective commercial environments that pay homage to, and update, the New Topographics.

Throughout his career Brouws has created a rich archive with an emphasis on documenting our built environment, a practice that he terms “visual anthropology.” In preserving the remnants of the American landscape he has created a photographic anthology that allows us to see the impact of economic and social forces as they play out, especially across non-urban areas of America. In these images a connecting thread is the highway, a central character and place upon which so much of American life unfolds.

Brouws’ photographs are included in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, among others. His monographs include “Approaching Nowhere” (2006), “Readymades” (2003), “Inside the Live Reptile Tent” (2001), and “Highway: America’s Endless Dream” (1998). He is also the co-editor and co-creator of “Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books” by Ed Ruscha (2013, MIT Press).

Born in 1955, Brouws lives in Stanfordville, New York.

Gallery hours by appointment

Exhibition Duration 17 October – 06 December 2024

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Location:
Robert Mann Gallery
508 West 26th Street, Suite 9F
10001 New York, NY
United States