exhibitions
Power Couple: Pierre and Louise Daura in Paris June 24, 2023 – February 11, 2024
Where Shadows Cross July 22 – October 8, 2023
Jim Fiscus, “Bus Stop, 10/26/21, 10:31 p.m., Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi,” 2021. Archival pigment print on cotton paper, 41 3/4 × 55 1/2 inches. Collection of the artist.
Iconic image maker Jim Fiscus produces layered single-frame stories that comment on human experience.
The exhibition “Where Shadows Cross” grew out of a new project Fiscus began in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and includes a dozen large-scale color photographs. Fiscus attempts to “tell it all” visually through lighting, shadow and composition. He entices viewers to immerse themselves in his stage sets, move through them and appreciate every crisp detail. Fiscus investigates seemingly mundane situations, focusing on figures doing unpredictable or unconventional things. Their interactions among each other or with their setting often upend our perspective and generates uncertainty about the evolving stories these images show.
In 1928, Pierre Daura and Louise Heron Blair married in Paris.
Their social sphere included artists, writers, musicians, gallery owners and critics. Among their entourage was Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García (1874 – 1949), whom Pierre had befriended and helped settle in Paris in 1926. The Torres and Daura families lived in the same apartment complex in the famed Montmartre district known for its vibrant artistic life full of studios, salons and cafés. During this period, Louise painted several portraits of the Torres daughters, Olimpia and Ifigenia, while Pierre produced several engravings of the young girls, a testament to the families’ friendship and affection.
Curator: Asen Kirin, Parker Curator of Russian Art Sponsors: The Todd Emily Community Foundation, the Epting Family Foun- dation, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation Fund and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.
Jim Fiscus, “An End Between, 2/5/22, 4:06 p.m., Cherry Hollow Farm, Chattahoochee Hills, Fulton County, Georgia,” 2022. Archival pigment print on cotton paper, 31 3/4 × 45 1/2 inches. Collection of the artist.
Curator: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art
Louise Heron Blair (1905 – 1972), “Olimpia Torres with Inca Gold,” 1929. Oil on paper mounted on board, 24 1/8 × 19 1/8 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura. GMOA 2003.887.
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