American artist Sharon Lockhart is well known for her formally strict and conceptually precise films and photographs. Lunch Break, her newest solo exhibition, is the product of more than a year spent at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine, observing and engaging with shipbuilders during breaks from their daily routines. The resultant two film installations and three series of photographs present images that are devoid of sentiment yet deeply humane, intimate in their focus on everyday situations while reflective of broader global conditions through their historically grounded approach.
To accompany the exhibition, this catalog from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum includes over one hundred images in full color, essays by exhibition curator Sabine Eckmann and art historian Matthias Michalka, and an interview with Lockhart conducted by filmmaker James Benning.
Sabine Eckmann is director of and chief curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also teaches in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. She is the author or editor of several books, including The Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures, Thaddeus Strode: Absolute and Nothings, and Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany.
Product Details
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (April 15, 2010)
