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Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Alec Soth’s fifth exhibition with the gallery, Advice for Young Artists which presents a curated selection of images from Soth’s recently completed body of work of the same name. Photographed during visits he made to twenty-five undergraduate art programs across the country from 2022 to 2024, the resulting pictures, interior studies, still-lives, and self-portraits depict Soth engaging with his subject while also reflecting, obliquely, on his life as an artist.
Although the title might suggest otherwise, Soth’s project is less about imparting his ideas to a younger generation and more about engaging with and learning from their creative energy. Instead of providing wisdom or guidance, he presents a fragmented and open-ended meditation on artmaking across different life stages, as well as the connections between photography, time, and aging.
The photographs that emerged out of his visits are deeply empathetic. In his portraits of students at work or…
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Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Alec Soth’s fifth exhibition with the gallery, Advice for Young Artists which presents a curated selection of images from Soth’s recently completed body of work of the same name. Photographed during visits he made to twenty-five undergraduate art programs across the country from 2022 to 2024, the resulting pictures, interior studies, still-lives, and self-portraits depict Soth engaging with his subject while also reflecting, obliquely, on his life as an artist.
Although the title might suggest otherwise, Soth’s project is less about imparting his ideas to a younger generation and more about engaging with and learning from their creative energy. Instead of providing wisdom or guidance, he presents a fragmented and open-ended meditation on artmaking across different life stages, as well as the connections between photography, time, and aging.
The photographs that emerged out of his visits are deeply empathetic. In his portraits of students at work or…
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