After Icebergs with a Painter references the romantic impulse realized by the painter Frederic Edwin Church in his Arctic paintings. Through a series of photographs, artist Ben Ruggiero examines the intentionality and the pursuit of the exotic in Hudson River School paintings and considers how those impulses inform representation and materiality in contemporary photographic practice and aesthetics.

Relevant links

Critics' Pick, Artforum

Video of the performance at the opening of After Icebergs with a Painter, courtesy of Kate Watson.