Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to present Roe Ethridge's seminal 2004 series Orange Grove in the gallery's online viewing room.
Orange Grove is comprised of eight photographs taken in a dilapidated orange grove in Ethridge's home-state of Florida. Analytic in their approach, they first appear to plainly document the grove's overgrowth - nearly rotted fruit weighing down the trees' branches, and brush piling on their trunks. However, as Ethridge moves between the stark contrast of backlight, and lush color of full sun, the photographs become meditations on the fruits' decay, marking what would later develop into a recurring motif within Ethridge's photographs, a contemporary reimagining of the vanitas.
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Installation View: Roe Ethridge, Orange Grove #1-8, 2004
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Roe Ethridge's Orange Grove was published in a softcover catalog of the same title by Andrew Kreps Gallery in 2004.
Please contact the gallery to purchase.
Orange Grove2004
8 × 9 1/2 inches (20.3 × 24.1 cm); 16 pages; Fully illustrated; Staple bound softcover
Published by Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
$20