Christine Osinski

Christine Osinski Summer Days Staten Island

June 24 – August 24, 2019

Closing Reception, Saturday, August 24th, 5-8 pm.

Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming solo exhibition, Christine Osinski Summer Days Staten Island. The exhibition will open June 24th and continue thru August 24, 2019. The exhibition will present selection of finely printed black and white photographs ranging in scale from 11x 14 to 20 x 24 inches.

Taken in the “forgotten borough” of Staten Island between 1983 and 1984, Christine Osinski’s photographs create a portrait of working class culture in an often-overlooked section of New York City. Captured on Osinski’s large format 4 x 5 camera as she wandered the island, her candid portraits of strangers, vernacular architecture, and quotidian scenes reveal an invisible landscape within reach of the thriving metropolis of Manhattan. The neighborhoods that Osinski captured are devoid of the skyscrapers, swarms of pedestrians, and choking masses of traffic that are a short ferry ride away. Instead, she photographed kids riding bikes on open, empty streets, suburban homes with neatly tended yards, and the small-town feel of New York’s least populous borough.

Christine Osinski received a BFA degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University. Osinski's photographs can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Girl's Club Foundation, Miami; Museum of the City of New York; New York Public Library; The Smithsonian Institute and in numerous other museums and collections.

To request further information or high resolution images please contact Joseph Bellows Gallery at info@josephbellows.com. Established in 1998, Joseph Bellows Gallery features rotating exhibitions of both historic and contemporary photography, with a special interest in American work from the 20th Century. More information can be found at: www.josephbellows.com

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Summer Days Staten Island

June 24 – August 24, 2019

Press Release

Christine Osinski is featured in Aperture magazine’s current New York issue, with an essay entitled Ocean Breeze by Paul Moakley, photographer, editor at large for TIME, and curator of the Alice Austen House in Staten Island.

Marking the one-year anniversary of New York’s shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Aperture magazine’s “New York” issue honors the city through photographs and essays by visionary artists and writers.

Christine Osinski included in: On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale