Janice Guy “Untitled” (1977, printed 2026), eight silver gelatin prints (Image Julia Curl/Hyperallergic)
“Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.” These words, taken from Fran Lebowitz and written on the wall to warn all ye who enter Luhring Augustine’s Chelsea gallery, set up the premise for its current group show: settle for a good fantasy.
It’s an admittedly juicy quotation. So juicy, indeed, that the gallery has hung Shaun Pierson’s photograph of a very voluptuous strawberry — seriously, it’s like the Venus of Willendorf of strawberries — right next to it, as if to underscore the point: Photography is always chasing a fantasy.
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