Looking ahead at the rest of the month, Something Curated highlights six of the most exciting art exhibitions taking place in New York this January. Transform," at David Zwirner || James Welling (10 Jan – 16 Feb 2019) Since the 1970s, Welling has become known for a relentlessly evolving body of images that considers both the history and technical specificities of photography. Emerging at a time when the medium focused on its capacity for mimesis, Welling’s work signalled a break with traditional ideas of photography by shifting attention to the construction of images themselves. While the artist produces discrete series whose subject matter ranges widely, his work is united by an examination of what might be termed “states of being” produced by photographically derived images and how such states are, in turn, read by the viewer.

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