Reception: Friday, November 2nd

DOCUMENT is pleased to present THE LAUGHTER, an exhibition of new works by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, the artist’s second solo show with the gallery.

Using images pulled from from archival, stock, and dis­carded commercial film, primarily purchased via eBay, Rafferty’s works in plastic and silver gelatin prints present both colorful and achromatic versions of images which invoke the senses: hands, eyes, lips. These include scans of positive film, specifically slides, representing photographic exercises by teachers and students alike. While the imagery is quite historical, the evocations are quite contemporary. As Johanna Fateman recently noted in The New Yorker, Rafferty’s works [give] “random cultural artifacts the heft of major archeological finds.”

Sara Greenberger Rafferty has exhibited widely since 2001, including solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Eli Marsh Gallery at Amherst College, Massachusetts; Fine Arts Center Gallery at University of Arkansas; and a commissioned sculpture for the Public Art Fund. Gloves Off, the first traveling survey of her work with accompanying fully illustrated catalogue published by SUNY Press, completed a three-venue tour last year.

The artist was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and the 2014 Hammer Biennial in addition to group shows at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California; and The Jewish Museum, New York, among many others. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Rafferty is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Dollar Test (University of Michigan Extension), 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 20 in

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Slides I (University of Michigan Extension), 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 17 x 21 1/2 in

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Slides II (University of Michigan Extension), 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 17 x 21 1/2 in

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Ringaround, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 1 3/8 in

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Red Hand, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 20 in

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 1, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 2, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 3, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 4, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 5, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 6, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 7, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 8, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 1 3/8 in, Edition of 5

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 9, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Eye Test (University of Michigan Extension), 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 20 in

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Yellow Wall, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 20 in

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Color Bar Composition, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet prints on acetate on Plexiglas, and hardware, 60h x 63w in

  • Installation view at DOCUMENT

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty Double Wall, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 30 1/2 in

  • Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Meds II, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 3/4 x 20 3/4 in

Available Works

Elizabeth Atterbury

Elizabeth Atterbury (b. 1982, West Palm Beach, FL) received a BFA from Hampshire College and an MFA from MassArt. She lives and works in Portland, Maine. Recent solo exhibitions include Mrs. (Queens), Document (Chicago), The Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, ME) and kijidome (Boston). She has been in two person and group exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME), Kate Werble (New York), Et al. Etc (San Francisco), and Bodega (New York) among others.

Atterbury’s studio practice is fluid, fluctuating between picture making and object making, relying on a series of glyphs that the artist has created to form a coded language. Fascinated with the autonomy of the artifact – objects disassociated from their original function and context – Atterbury’s practice considers the distinction or lack thereof between artifact, prop, model and sculpture.  In her monotype prints that combine chine collé and embossing techniques, Atterbury constructs ephemeral tableaux specifically for the purpose of transfiguring and recording them. Both her photographs and sculpture build upon a continued interest in display and its visual structures, along with a more recent interest in language, ritual, and abstraction.

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 1, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 1, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 2, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 3, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 5, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 6, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 8, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 11, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 13, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 20, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, 44 Flags 21, 2020, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, Center Before Outside 1, 2019, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, Center Before Outside 3, 2019, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, Center Before Outside 6, 2019, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, Center Before Outside 9, 2019, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, Center Before Outside 10, 2019, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, Center Before Outside 28, 2019, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, Center Before Outside 36, 2019, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, Center Before Outside 39, 2019, Chine collé and embossment

Elizabeth Atterbury, Three Walking, 2019, Mortar, plywood, and glue

Elizabeth Atterbury, Center Before Outside (Red, Yellow, Blue, Black), 2019, Mortar, plywood, glue

Elizabeth Atterbury, Labor, 2019, Mortar, plywood, and glue

Elizabeth Atterbury, Tango Tango, 2020, Mortar, plywood, and glue

Elizabeth Atterbury, Tango Tango (detail), 2020, Mortar, plywood, and glue

Elizabeth Atterbury, The Well is a Wall, 2020, Mortar, plywood, and glue

Elizabeth Atterbury, The Well is a Wall (detail), 2020, Mortar, plywood, and glue

Elizabeth Atterbury, 26 Waves, 2018, Mortar, plywood and glue, 22 3/4 x 19 x 1 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Alone at night, 2018, Mortar, plywood and glue, 23 x 19 x 1 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Still life with bowl and mirror, 2018, Mortar, plywood and glue, 23 x 19 x 1 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Anonymous Old Poem, 2018, Mortar, plywood and glue, 23 x 19 x 1 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Another Poem, 2018, Mortar, plywood and glue, 23 x 19 x 1 in

Installation view, Night Comes In, 2018, Mrs., New York, Clockwise from the floor: Arrangement 1 (Discoveries), 2018, Mixed media, Dimensions variable; Beads III, 2018, Peach pits, 61.5 x 1 x 1 inches; River Poem, 2018, Mortar, plywood, glue, 23 x 19 x 1 inches

Em Oh Em, 2017, Beach Sand, basswood 8.5 x 3.5 x 2.25 inches (each)

Urn, 2018, Basswood, ash, 7 x 7 x 3.625 inches

Elizabeth Atterbury, Calligraphy Frame, 2018, Maple, acrylic paint, glue, 60 x 40 x 1 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, The Well, Again (Pool), 2017, Beach sand, glue, MDF, 10 1/2 x 8 x 6 1/4 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, The Well, The Wall, 2016, Silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 in, Edition of 3

Elizabeth Atterbury, Beach Woks (Marks of a Tool II), 2016, Silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 in, Edition of 3

Elizabeth Atterbury, Ghost Tracks, 2014, Silver gelatin print, 24 x 20 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Still Life with Popcorn and Pits, 2016, Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in, Edition of 3

Installation view at DOCUMENT

Elizabeth Atterbury, Logogram III, 2016, Silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Logogram II, 2016, Silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Logogram I, 2016, Silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (Tomb), 2016, Enamel paint, steel, 12 x 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (The Cut), 2016, Enamel paint, steel, 13 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 1 1/4 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (Sunset Hedge), 2016, Enamel paint, steel, 1 1/2 x 16 x 2 1/2 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (Small House), 2016, Enamel paint, steel, 1 x 16 3/4 x 14 1/2 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (Bull Shark), 2016, Enamel paint, steel, 2 1/2 x 18 x 1 1/2 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (Paper Cut / Hedge), 2016, Enamel paint, steel, 10 x 9 x 1 3/4 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (Noguchi's Intetra, Mist Fountain), 2016, Enamel paint, steel, 11 x 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (Lawn), 2016, Enamel paint, steel 9 x 9 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (Big House), 2016, Enamel paint, steel, 16 x 18 x 6 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sunny Side, FL (Palms), 2015, Enamel paint, steel, 17 1/2 x 11 x 16 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Relief (China White), 2015, Plywood and paint, 33 x 48 x 1 3/4 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Moonlight on the river, 2014, Chromogenic print, 14 x 11 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Slow Song, 2014, Chromogenic print, 14 x 11 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Marks of a tool, 2014, Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Rake, 2014, Silver gelatin print, 24 x 20 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Black Beach, 2014, Silver gelatin print, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 in, Edition of 3

Elizabeth Atterbury, Bones, 2014, Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in, Edition of 3

Elizabeth Atterburym Glyphs II, 2014, Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Glyphs, 2014, Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Site, 2014, Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Sculpture Park, 2014, Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Bricks, 2013 Chromogenic print, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Harry, Henri, Sal, 2013, Chromogenic print, 14 x 11 in

Elizabeth Atterbury, Blue Runner Night, 2014, Chromogenic print, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 in, Editon of 3

We are proud to support gallery artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya in a fundraising effort for organizations that fight systemic and individual racism, police brutality and pretrial detention, unfair and corrupt elections, and advocate for equality, justice and inclusion.

Please see below for more information about purchasing a solidarity print. 

Paul Mpagi Sepuya Studio (0X5A4983), 2020, Archival Pigment Print, Print size 6″ x 9″, Paper size 8.5″ x 11″ Unlimited Edition

This unlimited edition print by gallery artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya is offered for a minimum $250 donation to any of the organizations listed below. We strongly encourage you to make a donation that reflects your capacity to give. Suggested donation amounts are $250, $500, $1,000, and upwards. Limit one print per person.

To purchase a print, please make your donation to any of the organizations listed below. Then e-mail your donation receipt to solidarity@paulsepuya.com with your full name and mailing address.

Donations made after 5/30/20 will be honored.

DOCUMENT is donating the cost of printing and will ship prints directly to purchasers. USPS shipping within the United States of America is complementary. International shipping will be organized by DOCUMENT at the purchaser’s expense. The print will be shipped to you unframed and unmounted directly from the printer. Please note that your print may take about 30 days to be printed and shipped.

Organizations:

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment

Black Lives Matter Los Angeles

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition

CURB Prison Spending / Californians United for a Responsible Budget

Fair Fight

LA Art Workers Relief Fund

The Laundromat Project

LGBTQFUND.ORG

National Bail Out

No More Deaths

The Robert Giard Foundation Grant to an emerging LGBTQ photographer

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DOCUMENT is a commercial gallery located in Chicago that specializes in contemporary photography, film and media based art. The gallery has organized more than 50 solo exhibitions since its opening in 2012 and actively promotes the work of emerging national and international artists.Since 2016, DOCUMENT started exhibiting historical artists and has continued to anchor its program in a conversation between emerging voices and established figures. Operating conjointly as a professional printmaking studio, DOCUMENT facilitates the production of works by artists from Chicago and the US. The production studio allows some of the gallery artists to collaborate with DOCUMENT in both their exhibitions and their daily artistic practice by being in constant conversation about the realization and processes in their work.
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