Weinstein Hammons Gallery

ON VIEW

Double Exposure
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

Weinstein Hammons Gallery, with the gracious assistance of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, is pleased to present Double Exposure, an exhibition featuring twenty gelatin silver photographs, vintage lithographs, and rare prints from 1976 to 1988.

Double Exposure highlights Mapplethorpe's fascination with dual subject matter—often captured within the same frame or arranged as paired installations. Notable works in the exhibition include a self-portrait alongside his famous muse, Lisa Lyon, the intimate image of Larry and Bobby kissing, an arresting portrait of Ken Moody and Robert Sherman gazing at the camera, and two calla lilies delicately composed in a single frame. Two significant pieces feature one of his sitters, Clifton—one with his eyes open and one closed—exhibited together.

Perhaps one of the most famous and controversial artists to emerge from the late 1970s and 1980s, it is nearly impossible to overestimate the impact of Robert Mapplethorpe's work, both artistically and socially. He was born in 1946 in Floral Park, New York, and earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Mapplethorpe died of AIDS on March 9, 1989, in Boston at 42 years old. Since that time, his work has been the subject of innumerable exhibitions throughout the world, including major museum traveling retrospectives.

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Image: Robert Mapplethorpe. Lisa Lyon and Robert Mapplethorpe, 1982. Gelatin silver print. 16 x 20 in. Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.